And So To-Day (Carl Sandburg Poems)
And so to-day--they lay him away-- the boy nobody knows the name of-- the buck private--the unknown soldier-- the doughboy ...
And so to-day--they lay him away-- the boy nobody knows the name of-- the buck private--the unknown soldier-- the doughboy ...
Wilson and Pilcer and Snack stood before the zoo elephant. Wilson said, "What is its name? Is it from ...
When country fiddlers held a convention in Danville, the big money went to a barn dance artist who played Turkey ...
THE HORSE'S name was Remorse. There were people said, "Gee, what a nag!" And they were Edgar Allan Poe bugs ...
CAST a bronze of my head and legs and put them on the king's street. Set the cast of me ...
1THE DOWN drop of the blackbird, The wing catch of arrested flight, The stop midway and then off: off for ...
Memory of you is . . . a blue spear of flower. I cannot remember the name of it. Alongside ...
I SAT with a dynamiter at supper in a German saloon eating steak and onions. And he laughed and told ...
WHAT was the name you called me?- And why did you go so soon? The crows lift their caw on ...
I REMEMBER here by the fire, In the flickering reds and saffrons, They came in a ramshackle tub, Pilgrims in ...
FLANDERS, the name of a place, a country of people, Spells itself with letters, is written in books. "Where is ...
TOMB of a millionaire, A multi-millionaire, ladies and gentlemen, Place of the dead where they spend every year The usury ...
I RISE out of my depths with my language. You rise out of your depths with your language. Two tongues ...
IF I should pass the tomb of Jonah I would stop there and sit for awhile; Because I was swallowed ...
BY day the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and has a soul. Prairie and valley, streets of the ...
HE lived on the wings of storm. The ashes are in Chihuahua. Out of Ludlow and coal towns in Colorado ...
I AM the people--the mob--the crowd--the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done ...
Momus is the name men give your face, The brag of its tone, like a long low steamboat whistle Finding ...
THEY were calling certain styles of whiskers by the name of "lilacs." And another manner of beard assumed in their ...
ARMOUR AVENUE was the name of this street and door signs on empty houses read "The Silver Dollar," "Swede Annie" ...
GUNS, Long, steel guns, Pointed from the war ships In the name of the war god. Straight, shining, polished guns, ...
I SAW a famous man eating soup. I say he was lifting a fat broth Into his mouth with a ...
My head knocks against the stars. My feet are on the hilltops. My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores ...
WHY shall I keep the old name? What is a name anywhere anyway? A name is a cheap thing all ...
POLAND, France, Judea ran in her veins, Singing to Paris for bread, singing to Gotham in a fizz at the ...
COUNT these reminiscences like money. The Greeks had their picnics under another name. The Romans wore glad rags and told ...
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