Silver Nails (Carl Sandburg Poems)
A MAN was crucified. He came to the city a stranger, was accused, and nailed to a cross. He lingered ...
Carl Sandburg Poems on Law & Regulation (17 Poems)
Two Strangers Breakfast (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE LAW says you and I belong to each other, George. The law says you are mine and I am ...
Under (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I I AM the undertow Washing tides of power Battering the pillars Under your things of high law. II I ...
Weeds (Carl Sandburg Poems)
FROM the time of the early radishes To the time of the standing corn Sleepy Henry Hackerman hoes. There are ...
Lawyer (Carl Sandburg Poems)
WHEN the jury files in to deliver a verdict after weeks of direct and cross examinations, hot clashes of lawyers ...
Pearl Fog (Carl Sandburg Poems)
Open the door now. Go roll up the collar of your coat To walk in the changing scarf of mist. ...
Prairie (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I WAS born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of ...
Skyscraper (Carl Sandburg Poems)
BY day the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and has a soul. Prairie and valley, streets of the ...
The Lawyers Know Too Much (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE LAWYERS, Bob, know too much. They are chums of the books of old John Marshall. They know it all, ...
Long Guns (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THEN came, Oscar, the time of the guns. And there was no land for a man, no land for a ...
Balloon Faces (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE BALLOONS hang on wires in the Marigold Gardens. They spot their yellow and gold, they juggle their blue and ...
Boy and Father (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE BOY Alexander understands his father to be a famous lawyer. The leather law books of Alexander's father fill a ...
Brass Keys (Carl Sandburg Poems)
JOY . weaving two violet petals for a coat lapel . painting on a slab of night sky a Christ ...
Cahoots (Carl Sandburg Poems)
PLAY it across the table. What if we steal this city blind? If they want any thing let 'em nail ...
Do You Want Affidavits? (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THERE'S a hole in the bottom of the sea. Do you want affidavits? There's a man in the moon with ...
Government (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE Government--I heard about the Government and I went out to find it. I said I would look closely at ...
Knucks (Carl Sandburg Poems)
IN Abraham Lincoln's city, Where they remember his lawyer's shingle, The place where they brought him Wrapped in battle flags, ...