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Picnic Boat by Carl Sandburg
SUNDAY night and the park policemen tell each other it
is dark as a stack of black cats on Lake Mic..
Psalm of Those Who Go Forth Before Daylight by Carl Sandburg
THE POLICEMAN buys shoes slow and careful;
the teamster buys gloves slow and careful;
they take ca..
Put Off the Wedding Five Times and Nobody Comes to It by Carl Sandburg
(Handbook for Quarreling Lovers)I THOUGHT of offering you apothegms.
I might have said, “Dogs bark..
Purple Martins by Carl Sandburg
IF we were such and so, the same as these,
maybe we too would be slingers and sliders,
tumbling ha..
Proud and Beautiful by Carl Sandburg
AFTER you have spent all the money modistes and manicures and mannikins will take for fixing you ove..
Prayers After World War by Carl Sandburg
WANDERING oversea dreamer,
Hunting and hoarse, Oh daughter and mother,
Oh daughter of ashes and mo..
Prairie Waters by Night by Carl Sandburg
CHATTER of birds two by two raises a night song joining a litany of running water—sheer waters showi..
Prairie by Carl Sandburg
I WAS born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of its women, g..
Potomac Town in February by Carl Sandburg
THE BRIDGE says: Come across, try me; see how good I am.
The big rock in the river says: Look at me..
Potomac River Mist by Carl Sandburg
ALL the policemen, saloonkeepers and efficiency experts in Toledo knew Bern Dailey; secretary ten ye..
Potato Blossom Songs and Jigs by Carl Sandburg
RUM tiddy um,
tiddy um,
tiddy um tum tum.
My knees are loose-like, my feet want to sling their se..
Portrait of a Motor Car by Carl Sandburg
IT’S a lean car … a long-legged dog of a car … a gray-ghost eagle car.
The feet of it eat the dirt..
Portrait by Carl Sandburg
(For S. A.)TO write one book in five years
or five books in one year,
to be the painter and the th..
Population Drifts by Carl Sandburg
NEW-MOWN hay smell and wind of the plain made her
a woman whose ribs had the power of the hills in
..
Poppies by Carl Sandburg
She loves blood-red poppies for a garden to walk in.
In a loose white gown she walks
and a new chi..
Pool by Carl Sandburg
OUT of the fire
Came a man sunken
To less than cinders,
A tea-cup of ashes or so.
And I,
The go..
Poems Done on a Late Night Car by Carl Sandburg
I. CHICKENS
I am The Great White Way of the city:
When you ask what is my desire, I answer:
"Gi..
Plaster by Carl Sandburg
“I KNEW a real man once,” says Agatha in the splendor of a shagbark hickory tree.
Did a man touch..
Places by Carl Sandburg
ROSES and gold
For you today,
And the flash of flying flags.
I will have
Ashes,
Dust in my ha..
Pigeon by Carl Sandburg
THE FLUTTER of blue pigeon’s wings
Under a river bridge
Hunting a clean dry arch,
A corner for a..
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