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Here, Sailor. by Walt Whitman
WHAT ship, puzzled at sea, cons for the true reckoning?
Or, coming in, to avoid the bars, and foll..
How To Paint A Water Lily by Ted Hughes
To Paint a Water Lily
A green level of lily leaves
Roofs the pond’s chamber and paves
The fli..
Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.
Inaction, no falsifying dream
Between my hooked head..
Hydrangeas by Carl Sandburg
Dragoons, I tell you the white hydrangeas
turn rust and go soon.
Already mid September a line of b..
How Yesterday Looked by Carl Sandburg
THE HIGH horses of the sea broke their white riders
On the walls that held and counted the hours
T..
How Much? by Carl Sandburg
HOW much do you love me, a million bushels?
Oh, a lot more than that, Oh, a lot more.
And to-mor..
House by Carl Sandburg
TWO Swede families live downstairs and an Irish policeman upstairs, and an old soldier, Uncle Joe.
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Horses and Men in Rain by Carl Sandburg
LET us sit by a hissing steam radiator a winter’s day, gray wind pattering frozen raindrops on the w..
Horse Fiddle by Carl Sandburg
FIRST I would like to write for you a poem to be shouted in the teeth of a strong wind.
Next I woul..
Hoodlums by Carl Sandburg
I AM a hoodlum, you are a hoodlum, we and all of us are a world of hoodlums—maybe so.
I hate and ki..
Hits and Runs by Carl Sandburg
I REMEMBER the Chillicothe ball players grappling the Rock Island ball players in a sixteen-inning g..
High Conspiratorial Person by Carl Sandburg
OUT of the testimony of such reluctant lips, out of the oaths and mouths of such scrupulous liars, o..
Hemlock and Cedar by Carl Sandburg
THIN sheets of blue smoke among white slabs … near the shingle mill … winter morning.
Falling of a..
Helga by Carl Sandburg
THE WISHES on this child’s mouth
Came like snow on marsh cranberries;
The tamarack kept something..
Haze by Carl Sandburg
KEEP a red heart of memories
Under the great gray rain sheds of the sky,
Under the open sun and th..
Haunts by Carl Sandburg
THERE are places I go when I am strong.
One is a marsh pool where I used to go
with a long-ear hou..
Hats by Carl Sandburg
HATS, where do you belong?
what is under you?
On the rim of a skyscraper’s forehead
I looked do..
Harvest Sunset by Carl Sandburg
RED gold of pools,
Sunset furrows six o’clock,
And the farmer done in the fields
And the cows in..
Harrison Street Court by Carl Sandburg
I heard a woman’s lips
Speaking to a companion
Say these words:
"A woman what hustles
Never ke..
Handfuls by Carl Sandburg
BLOSSOMS of babies
Blinking their stories
Come soft
On the dusk and the babble;
Little red gambl..
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