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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HORSES AND MEN IN RAIN, by CARL SANDBURG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us sit by a hissing steam radiator a winter's day
Last Line: Men who rode horses in the rain.
First Line: Let us sit by a hissing steam radiator a winter's day
Last Line: Men who rode horses in the rain.
LET us sit by a hissing steam radiator a winter's day, gray wind
pattering frozen raindrops on the window,
And let us talk about milk wagon drivers and grocery delivery boys.
Let us keep our feet in wool slippers and mix hot punches -- and talk
about mail carriers and messenger boys slipping along the icy
sidewalks.
Let us write of olden, golden days and hunters of the Holy Grail and
men called "knights" riding horses in the rain, in the cold frozen
rain for ladies they loved.
A roustabout hunched on a coal wagon goes by, icicles drip on his hat
rim, sheets of ice wrapping the hunks of coal, the caravanserai a gray
blur in slant of rain.
Let us nudge the steam radiator with our wool slippers and write poems
of Launcelot, the hero, and Roland, the hero, and all the olden golden
men who rode horses in the rain.
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