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Subway by Carl Sandburg
DOWN between the walls of shadow
Where the iron laws insist,
The hunger voices mock.
The worn w..
Style by Carl Sandburg
STYLE--go ahead talking about style.
You can tell where a man gets his style just
as you can tell..
Stripes by Carl Sandburg
POLICEMAN in front of a bank 3 A.M. … lonely.
Policeman State and Madison … high noon … mobs … cars..
Streets Too Old by Carl Sandburg
I WALKED among the streets of an old city and the streets were lean as the throats of hard seafish s..
Street Window by Carl Sandburg
THE PAWN-SHOP man knows hunger,
And how far hunger has eaten the heart
Of one who comes with an ol..
Statistics by Carl Sandburg
NAPOLEON shifted,
Restless in the old sarcophagus
And murmured to a watchguard:
"Who goes there?"..
Stars, Songs, Faces by Carl Sandburg
GATHER the stars if you wish it so.
Gather the songs and keep them.
Gather the faces of women.
Ga..
Spanish by Carl Sandburg
FASTEN black eyes on me.
I ask nothing of you under the peach trees,
Fasten your black eyes in my..
Southern Pacific by Carl Sandburg
HUNTINGTON sleeps in a house six feet long.
Huntington dreams of railroads he built and owned.
Hun..
Soiled Dove by Carl Sandburg
Let us be honest; the lady was not a harlot until she
married a corporation lawyer who picked her f..
Snow by Carl Sandburg
SNOW took us away from the smoke valleys into white mountains, we saw velvet blue cows eating a verm..
Smoke Rose Gold by Carl Sandburg
THE DOME of the capitol looks to the Potomac river.
Out of haze over the sunset,
Out of a smoke ro..
Smoke and Steel by Carl Sandburg
SMOKE of the fields in spring is one,
Smoke of the leaves in autumn another.
Smoke of a steel-mill..
Smoke by Carl Sandburg
I SIT in a chair and read the newspapers.
Millions of men go to war, acres of them are buried, gu..
Slippery by Carl Sandburg
THE SIX month child
Fresh from the tub
Wriggles in our hands.
This is our fish child.
Give her a..
Sleepyheads by Carl Sandburg
SLEEP is a maker of makers. Birds sleep. Feet cling to a perch. Look at the balance. Let the legs lo..
Slants at Buffalo, New York by Carl Sandburg
A FOREFINGER of stone, dreamed by a sculptor, points to the sky.
It says: This way! this way!
Fo..
Sixteen Months by Carl Sandburg
ON the lips of the child Janet float changing dreams.
It is a thin spiral of blue smoke,
A morning..
Singing Nigger by Carl Sandburg
YOUR bony head, Jazbo, O dock walloper,
Those grappling hooks, those wheelbarrow handlers,
The dom..
Silver Wind by Carl Sandburg
DO you know how the dream looms? how if summer misses one of us the two of us miss summer—
Summer w..
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