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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
Riddle: What car does a belly button drive?Answer: An Audi (Outtie) ((Like a belly button))!!!!!!!! ;)
Riddle: What do you get when you cross a pig with a dinosaur?Answer: Jurassic pork!
Riddle: What can emit an umbra on the earth, provide phosphorescence for all it's creatures. All while altering the visual surface of itself within..
Riddle: "First think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me what's always the last thing..
Riddle: Is it anger? no. What is the anagrammed word?Answer: Resignation.
Riddle: O! if I can sit so. What is the anagrammed word?Answer: Ossification.