Section: «Poems»

Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings: artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.); a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").

Salvage

Guns on the battle lines have pounded now a yearbetween Brussels and Paris.And, William Morris, when I read your old chapter onthe great arches and..

© Carl Sandburg

Rusty Crimson

(Chirstmas Day, 1917)THE FIVE O'CLOCK prairie sunset is a strong man going tosleep after a long day in a cornfield.The red dust of a rusty crimson is..

© Carl Sandburg

River Roads

Let the crows go by hawking their caw and caw.They have been swimming in midnights of coal mines somewhere.Let 'em hawk their caw and caw.Let the..

© Carl Sandburg

River Moons

THE DOUBLE moon, one on the high back drop of the west, one on the curve ofthe river face,The sky moon of fire and the river moon of water, I am..

© Carl Sandburg

Repetitions

THEY are crying salt tearsOver the beautiful beloved bodyOf Inez Milholland,Because they are glad she lived,Because she loved open-armed,Throwing..

© Carl Sandburg

Remorse

THE HORSE'S name was Remorse.There were people said, 'Gee, what a nag!'And they were Edgar Allan Poe bugs and soThey called him Remorse.When he was a..

© Carl Sandburg

Remembered Women

FOR a woman's face remembered as a spot of quick light on the flat land of darknight,For this memory of one mouth and a forehead they go on in the..

© Carl Sandburg

Red-Headed Restaurant Cashier

SHAKE back your hair, O red-headed girl.Let go your laughter and keep your two proud freckles on your chin.Somewhere is a man looking for a..

© Carl Sandburg

Real Estate News

ARMOUR AVENUE was the name of this street and door signs on empty housesread 'The Silver Dollar,' 'Swede Annie' and the Christian names of madams..

© Carl Sandburg

Ready To Kill

Ten minutes now I have been looking at this.I have gone by here before and wondered about it.This is a bronze memorial of a famous generalRiding..

© Carl Sandburg

Questionnaire

HAVE I told any man to be a liar for my sake?Have I sold ice to the poor in summer and coal to the poor in winter for the sakeof daughters who nursed..

© Carl Sandburg

Put Off The Wedding Five Times And Nobody Comes To It

(Handbook for Quarreling Lovers)I THOUGHT of offering you apothegms.I might have said, 'Dogs bark and the wind carries it away.'I might have said..

© Carl Sandburg

Purple Martins

IF we were such and so, the same as these,maybe we too would be slingers and sliders,tumbling half over in the water mirrors,tumbling half over at..

© Carl Sandburg

Proud And Beautiful

AFTER you have spent all the money modistes and manicures and mannikins willtake for fixing you over into a thing the people on the streets call..

© Carl Sandburg

Primer Lesson

Look out how you use proud words.When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud;..

© Carl Sandburg

Prayers Of Steel

Lay me on an anvil, O God.Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.Let me pry loose old walls.Let me lift and loosen old foundations.Lay me on an anvil..

© Carl Sandburg

Prayers After World War

WANDERING oversea dreamer,Hunting and hoarse, Oh daughter and mother,Oh daughter of ashes and mother of blood,Child of the hair let down, and..

© Carl Sandburg

Prairie Waters By Night

Chatter of birds two by two raises a night song joining a litany of running water--sheer watersshowing the russet of old stones remembering many..

© Carl Sandburg

Prairie

I WAS born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, theeyes of its women, gave me a song and aslogan.Here the water went..

© Carl Sandburg

Potomac Town In February

THE BRIDGE says: Come across, try me; see how good I am.The big rock in the river says: Look at me; learn how to stand up.The white water says: I go..

© Carl Sandburg

Potomac River Mist

All the policemen, saloonkeepers and efficiency experts in Toledoknew Bern Dailey; secretary ten years when Whitlock was mayor.Pickpockets, yeggs..

© Carl Sandburg

Potato Blossom Songs And Jigs

RUM tiddy um,tiddy um,tiddy um tum tum.My knees are loose-like, my feet want to sling their selves.I feel like tickling you under the chin-honey-and..

© Carl Sandburg

Portrait Of A Motor Car

IT'S a lean car ... a long-legged dog of a car ... a gray-ghost eagle car.The feet of it eat the dirt of a road ... the wings of it eat the..

© Carl Sandburg

Portrait

(For S. A.)TO write one book in five yearsor five books in one year,to be the painter and the thing painted,... where are we, bo?Wait-get his..

© Carl Sandburg

Population Drifts

New-mown hay smell and wind of the plain made hera woman whose ribs had the power of the hills inthem and her hands were tough for work and therewas..

© Carl Sandburg