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| Searching... Author: SANDBURG, CARL Matches Found: 408 Sandburg, Carl Poet's Biography 408 poems available by this author A COIN Poem Text First Line: Your western heads here cast on money Last Line: Good-by. Subject(s): Money A FENCE Poem Text First Line: Now the stone house on the lake front is finished Last Line: Except death and the rain and to-morrow. Subject(s): Fences; Houses A MILLION YOUNG WORKMEN, 1915 Poem Text First Line: A million young workmen straight and strong lay stiff on the grass and roads Last Line: God damn the grinning kings, god damn the kaiser and the czar. Subject(s): World War I; First World War A SPHINX Poem Text First Line: Close-mouthed you sat five thousand years and never Last Line: I am one of those who know all you know and I keep my questions: I know the answers you hold. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Egypt; Sphinx A TALL MAN Poem Text First Line: The mouth of this man is a gaunt strong mouth Last Line: It is the many he knows, the gaunt strong hunger of the many. A TEAMSTER'S FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: Good-by now to the streets and the clash of wheels and Last Line: O god, there's noises I'm going to be hungry for. Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts A.E.F. Poem Text First Line: There will bea rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart Last Line: They will tell the spider: go on, you're doing good work. Subject(s): Rifles; World War I; First World War ACCOMPLISHED FACTS Poem Text First Line: Every year emily dickinson sent one friend Last Line: So it goes.... Subject(s): Gifts & Giving ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Poem Text First Line: Among the bumble-bees in red-top hay, a freckled Last Line: Shapes on the beach sand. Subject(s): Crapsey, Adelaide (1878-1914) ALICE CORBIN IS GONE Poem Text Subject(s): Henderson, Alice Corbin (1881-1949); Native Americans; Translating & Interpreting; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America ALIX Poem Text First Line: The mare alix breaks the world's trotting record one day Last Line: And I want to rub my nose against the nose of the mare alix. Subject(s): Animals; Horses ALL DAY LONG Poem Text First Line: All day long in fog and wind Last Line: Against the palisades of adamant. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ALONE Poem Text First Line: Naked I stood on the soft shingle of sand Subject(s): Memory; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean ALWAYS THE MOB Poem Text First Line: Jesus emptied the devils of one man into forty hogs Last Line: In the night of our tears. AMONG THE RED GUNS Poem Text Last Line: Dreams of the way and the end go on Subject(s): War AND SO TODAY Poem Text First Line: And so to-day-they lay him away Last Line: Under a sky of promises. Subject(s): Death; Patriotism; Soldiers; Washington, D.c.; Dead, The AND THEY OBEY Poem Text First Line: Smash down the cities Last Line: You are workmen and citizens all: we command you. Subject(s): Duty; Soldiers; World War I; First World War ANNA IMROTH Poem Text First Line: Cross the hands over the breast here - so Last Line: It is the hand of god and the lack of fire escapes. Subject(s): Child Labor; Fire ARITHMETIC Poem Text First Line: Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head Subject(s): Mathematics ASHURNATSIRPAL III Poem Text First Line: Three walls around the town of tela when I came Last Line: There wasn't much left of the town of tela. Subject(s): Ashurnatsirpal Iii; Babylon AT A WINDOW Poem Text First Line: Give me hunger Last Line: Of a little love. Subject(s): Love AUTUMN MOVEMENT Poem Text First Line: I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts Last Line: And the old things go, not one lasts. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AZTEC Poem Text First Line: You came from the aztecs Last Line: Before the days are longer. Subject(s): Aztecs AZTEC MASK Poem Text First Line: I wanted a man's face looking into the jaws and throat Last Line: Proud-eyed gambler. Subject(s): Aztecs; Masks BABY FACE Poem Text First Line: White moon comes in on a baby face Last Line: Where you come in, white moon. Subject(s): Moon BACK YARD Poem Text First Line: Shine on, o moon of summer Last Line: Shake out more and more silver changes. Subject(s): Moon BALLOON FACES Poem Text First Line: The balloons hang on wires in the marigold gardens Last Line: Balloon spots on wires -- this will be about all, this will be about all. BAND CONCERT Poem Text First Line: Band concert public square nebraska city Last Line: These know more of the story. Subject(s): Music & Musicians BAS-RELIEF Poem Text First Line: Five geese deply mysteriously Subject(s): Geese BATH Poem Text First Line: A man saw the whole world as a grinning skull and cross-bones Last Line: Singing fire and a climb of roses everlastingly over the world he looked on. Subject(s): Elman, Mischa (1891-1967) BE READY Poem Text First Line: Be land ready Subject(s): Preparedness BEE SONG Poem Text First Line: Bees in the late summer sun Subject(s): Animals BETWEEN TWO HILLS BILBEA Poem Text First Line: Bilbea, I was in babylon on saturday night Last Line: And take care of yourself. BLACKLISTED Poem Text First Line: Why shall I keep the old name? Last Line: Name to go by? Subject(s): Blacklists; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers BLIZZARD NOTES Poem Text First Line: I don't blame the kettle drums - they are hungry Last Line: A cradle moon rides out of a torn hole in the ragbag top of the sky. BOES Poem Text First Line: I waited today for a freight train to pass Last Line: He had left over when he got drunk. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes BOES Poem Text First Line: I waited today for a freight train to pass BONES Poem Text First Line: Sling me under the sea Last Line: Sling me . . . Under the sea. Subject(s): Funerals; Sea; Burials; Ocean BOY AND FATHER Poem Text First Line: The boy alexander understands his father to be a famous lawyer. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; God; Mothers BRICKLAYER LOVE Poem Text First Line: I thought of killing myself because I am only a bricklayer Last Line: Boards go wrong, I think of you. Subject(s): Bricklayers; Love - Unrequited BRINGERS Poem Text First Line: Cover me over Last Line: Bringers of dusk and dust and dreams. BROADWAY Poem Text First Line: I shall never forget you, broadway Last Line: In the dust of your harsh and trampled stones. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City BROKEN SONNET Poem Text First Line: May the weather next week be good to us Subject(s): Weather; Birds BRONZES Poem Text First Line: They ask me to handle bronzes Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors BRONZES: 1 Poem Text First Line: The bronze general grant riding a bronze horse in Last Line: And make to ride his bronze horse out into the hoofs and guns of the storm. Subject(s): Lincoln Park, Chicago; Statues BRONZES: 2 Poem Text First Line: I cross lincoln park on a winter night when the snow Last Line: Hold them past midnight and into the dawn. Subject(s): Lincoln Park, Chicago; Statues BROOM Poem Text First Line: Tommorrow waits with a big broom Subject(s): Silence; Sleep; Laughter BUBBLES Poem Text First Line: Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves Subject(s): Bubbles; Rainbows BUFFALO BILL Poem Text First Line: Boy heart of johnny jones - aching today? Last Line: Ambush. Subject(s): "cody, William ""buffalo Bill"" (1846-1917); BUFFALO DUSK Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The buffaloes are gone Subject(s): Buffaloes; Environment; Middle West; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States BUNDLES Poem Text First Line: I have thought of beaches, fields, Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence BUTTONS Poem Text First Line: I have been watching the war map slammed up for advertising Last Line: Newspaper office where the freckle-faced young man is laughing to us? Subject(s): Social Protest; World War I; First World War CABOOSE THOUGHTS Poem Text First Line: It's going to come out all right-do you know? Last Line: They get along -- and we'll get along. Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips CAHOOTS Poem Text First Line: Play it across the table. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals CALIFORNIA CITY LANDSCAPE Poem Text First Line: On a mountain-side the real estate agents Last Line: How long it might last, how young it might be. Subject(s): California; Houses CALLS Poem Text First Line: Because I have called to you Subject(s): Waiting; Birds CANADIANS AND POTTAWATOMIES Poem Text First Line: I have seen a loneliness sit Subject(s): Loneliness; Canada; Native Americans; Canadians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CARTOON Poem Text First Line: I am making a cartoon of a woman. She is the people Last Line: Feet, snuggle at her breasts. Subject(s): Mothers CHAMFORT Poem Text First Line: There's chamfort. He's a sample Last Line: "come and take me." Subject(s): Suicide; Writing & Writers CHEAP BLUE Poem Text First Line: Hill blue among the leaves I summer Subject(s): Blue (Color); Money CHICAGO Poem Text First Line: Hog butcher for the world Last Line: Player with railroads, and freight-handler to the nation. Subject(s): Chicago CHICAGO POET Poem Text First Line: I saluted a nobody Last Line: I lose all -- but not him. CHICKS Poem Text First Line: The chick in the egg picks at the shell Last Line: Star. Subject(s): Chickens CHILD Poem Text First Line: The young child, christ, is straight and wise Last Line: For the young child. Christ, straight and wise. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Theology CHILD MARGARET Poem Text First Line: The child margaret begins to write numbers on a saturday morning Last Line: Millions of rag dolls, millions and millions of new rag dolls!!) Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood CHILD MOON Poem Text First Line: The child's wonder Last Line: With babblings of the moon on her little mouth. Subject(s): Children; Moon; Childhood CHILD OF THE ROMANS Poem Text First Line: The dago shovelman sits by the railroad track Last Line: Standing slender on the tables in the dining cars. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers CHOICES Poem Text First Line: They offer you many things Last Line: And hate. CHOOSE Poem Text First Line: The single clenched fist lifted and ready Last Line: For we meet by one or the other. Subject(s): Anger; Friendship; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CHROMO Poem Text First Line: This old river town saw the Subject(s): Wharves; Rivers; Piers CIRCLES Poem Text First Line: The white man drew a small circle in the sand Subject(s): United States; America CLARK STREET BRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Dust of the feet Last Line: Softer than the mist. Subject(s): Chicago CLOCKS Poem Text First Line: Here is a face that says half-past seven the same way Last Line: Eager to go to france... Subject(s): Clocks; Time COOL TOMBS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When abraham lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot the copperheads Last Line: The dust ... In the cool tombs. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones CORNUCOPIA Poem Text First Line: The naked cornucpoia of autumn fields Subject(s): Autumn; Fall CRABAPPLES Poem Text First Line: Sweeten these bitter wild crabapples, illinois Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States CRICKET MARCH Poem Text First Line: As the corn becomes higher Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States CRIMSON Poem Text First Line: Crimson is the slow smolder of the cigar end I hold Last Line: Shadows and smoke and watch my thoughts come and go.) Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes CRIMSON RAMBLER Poem Text First Line: Now that a crimson rambler Last Line: To keep strong hands and strong hearts? CRIPPLE Poem Text First Line: Once when I saw a cripple Last Line: The clear silent processional of stars. Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples CROSSING OHIO WHEN POPPIES BLOOM IN ASHTABULA Poem Text First Line: Go away. Leave the high winds of may Subject(s): Ohio CUMULATIVES Poem Text First Line: Storms have beaten on this point of land Last Line: Along the city streets. DAN Poem Text First Line: Early may, after cold rain the sun Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DAYBREAK Poem Text First Line: Daybreak comes first / in thin splinters shimmering Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States DAYS Poem Text First Line: I will keep you and bring hands to hold you Subject(s): Love DEATH SNIPS PROUD MEN Poem Text First Line: Death is stronger than all the governments because the governments are men Last Line: Long sleep, child; what have you had anyhow better than sleep? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DOCKS Poem Text First Line: Strolling along Last Line: Into salt and mist and foam and sun. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping DOORS Poem Text Subject(s): Doors; Conduct Of Life DREAM GIRL Poem Text First Line: You will come one day in a waver of love Last Line: A film of hope and a memoried day. DREAMS IN THE DUSK Poem Text Last Line: May find your heart at dusk Subject(s): Dreams DRUMNOTES Poem Text First Line: Days of the dead men, danny Last Line: Drum on your remembering heart. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DUNES Poem Text First Line: What do we see here in the sand dunes of the white moon Last Line: Sun for -- what, bill? DYNAMITER Poem Text First Line: I sat with a dynamiter at supper in a german saloon Last Line: Laughter everywhere -- lover of red hearts and red blood the world over. Subject(s): Anarchism And Anarchists EARLY MOON Poem Text First Line: The baby moon, a canoe, a silver papoose canoe Last Line: Early moon, a silver papoose, in the indian west? Subject(s): Moon EVENING WATERFALL Poem Text First Line: What was the name you called me? Subject(s): Names FALLTIME Poem Text First Line: Gold of a ripe oat straw, gold of a southwest moon Last Line: Is there something finished? And some new beginning on the way? Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall FEATHER LIGHTS Poem Text First Line: Macabre and golden the moon opened a slant of light Subject(s): Light FELLOW CITIZENS Poem Text First Line: I drank musty ale at the illinois athletic club with Last Line: Presses are ready for work. FIFTY-FIFTY Poem Text First Line: What is there for us two Subject(s): Friendship FIGHT Poem Text First Line: Red drips from my chin where I have been eating Last Line: The child cries for a suck mother and I cry for war. Subject(s): World War I; First World War FILMS Poem Text First Line: I have kept all, not one is thrown away, not one given to the ragman Last Line: O there shall be no ragman have these yet a year, yet ten years. FIRE DREAMS Poem Text First Line: I remember here by the fire Last Line: "god." Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day FIRE-LOGS Poem Text First Line: Nancy hanks dreams by the fire Last Line: Time now for a tall man to come. Subject(s): Hanks, Nancy (1783-1818) FISH CRIER Poem Text First Line: I know a jew fish crier down on maxwell street with a Last Line: Wares from a pushcart. FLANDERS Poem Text First Line: Flanders, the name of a place, a country of people Last Line: Washing wooden bowls in the winter sun by a window. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium FLAT LANDS Poem Text First Line: Flat lands on the end of town where real estate men are crying Last Line: Stars wheel onward, the frogs sob this april night. FLOWERS TELL MONTHS Poem Text First Line: Gold buttons in the garden today Subject(s): Flowers; Spring FLUX Poem Text First Line: Sand of the sea runs red Last Line: Where the moon slants and wavers. FOG Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The fog comes / on little cat feet Last Line: And then moves on. Subject(s): Fog; Haze FOLLIES Poem Text First Line: Shaken / the blossoms of lilac Last Line: Remembering all. FOUR PRELUDES ON PLAYTHINGS OF THE WIND Poem Text First Line: The woman named tomorrow Last Line: And the women warbled: nothing like us ever was. Subject(s): Past; Rats FOURTH OF JULY NIGHT Poem Text First Line: The little boat at anchor Subject(s): Fireworks; Fourth Of July; Independence Day FROM THE SHORE Poem Text First Line: A lone gray bird Last Line: On the tides that plunge and rear and crumble. Subject(s): Birds GARDEN WIRELESS Poem Text First Line: How many feet ran with sunlight, water, and rain Last Line: Love me -- love me now. Subject(s): Love GARGOYLE Poem Text First Line: I saw a mouth jeering. A smile of melted red iron ran over it Last Line: Fist is pounding and pounding, and the mouth answering. GIRL IN A CAGE Poem Text First Line: Here in a cage the dollars come down Last Line: A flame of silk at the throat. Subject(s): Money GOLDWING MOTH Poem Text First Line: A goldwing moth is between the scissors and the ink bottle on the desk Last Line: Manuscripts of the medieval monks. Subject(s): Manuscripts; Moths GONE Poem Text Recitation First Line: Everybody loved chick lorimer in our town Last Line: Nobody knows where she's gone. Subject(s): Absence; Women; Separation; Isolation GOOD MORNING AMERICA: 14 Poem Text First Line: Now it's uncle sam sitting on top of the world Subject(s): United States GOOD MORNING AMERICA: 15 Poem Text First Line: In god we trust; it so written Subject(s): United States; God; America GOOD MORNING AMERICA: 16 Poem Text First Line: The silent litany of the workmen go on - Subject(s): United States; Labor & Laborers; America; Work; Workers GOVERNMENT Poem Text First Line: The government - I heard about the government and Last Line: Germs, traditions and corpuscles handed down from fathers and mothers away back. Subject(s): Government GRACELAND Poem Text First Line: Tomb of a millionaire Last Line: Home town or the name people call her.) Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards GRASS Poem Text First Line: Pile the bodies high at austerlitz and waterloo Last Line: Let me work. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Grass; War; Graveyards; Dead, The GRASSROOTS Poem Text First Line: Grass clutches at the dark dirt with finger holds Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States GRAVES Poem Text First Line: I dreamed one man stood against a thousand Last Line: I love you and your great way of forgetting. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones GYPSY Poem Text First Line: I asked a gypsy pal Last Line: Yet hold thy lips ready to speak. Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies GYPSY MOTHER Poem Text First Line: In a hole-in-the-wall on halsted street sits a gypsy woman Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies HALSTED STREET CAR Poem Text First Line: Come you, cartoonists Last Line: Empty of dreams. Subject(s): Chicago; Streetcars HANDFULS Poem Text First Line: Blossoms of babies Last Line: Handfuls again. HAPPINESS Poem Text First Line: I asked professors who teach the meaning of life to tell Last Line: And children and a keg of beer and an accordion. Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight HARMONICA HUMDRUMS Poem Text First Line: And so the days pass Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence HARRISON STREET COURT Poem Text First Line: I heard a woman's lips Last Line: "every night's hustlin' I ever did." Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels HARVEST Poem Text First Line: When the corn stands yellow in september Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States HAUNTS Poem Text First Line: There are places I go when I am strong Last Line: Places when there is no other place to go. HAVE ME Poem Text First Line: Have me in the blue and the sun Last Line: Have me in the blue and the sun. HAZARDOUS OCCUPATIONS Poem Text First Line: Jugglers keep six bottles in the air Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers HAZE Poem Text First Line: Keep a red heart of memories Subject(s): Fog; Haze HAZE GOLD Poem Text First Line: Sun, you may send your haze gold Last Line: Keep all we can of these haze gold yellows? Subject(s): Autumn; Fog; Seasons; Yellow (Color); Fall; Haze HEAVY FOLIO Poem Text First Line: The mathematics of intimate questions Subject(s): Love; Money; Death; Dead, The HEMLOCK AND CEDAR Poem Text First Line: Thin sheets of blue smoke among white slabs Last Line: Mill to the ridge of hemlock and cedar. Subject(s): Winter HITS AND RUNS Poem Text First Line: I remember the chillicothe ball players grappling the rock Last Line: And the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song. Subject(s): Baseball; Sports HONKY TONK IN CLEVELAND, OHIO Poem Text First Line: It's a jazz affair, drum crashes and cornet razzes Subject(s): Jazz HORSES AND MEN IN RAIN Poem Text First Line: Let us sit by a hissing steam radiator a winter's day Last Line: Men who rode horses in the rain. HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Two swede families live downstairs and an irish policeman upstairs Last Line: Could be a soldier. Subject(s): American Civil War; Home; U.s. - History HOW MUCH? Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: How much do you love me, a million bushels? Subject(s): Love - Complaints HUMDRUM Poem Text First Line: If I had a million lives to live Last Line: Or you? HYDRANGEAS Poem Text First Line: Dragoons, I tell you the white hydrangeas Last Line: Waiting, they look over the fence for what way they go. Subject(s): Hydrangeas I AM THE PEOPLE, THE MOB Poem Text First Line: I am the people - the mob - the crowd - the mass Last Line: The mob -- the crowd -- the mass -- will arrive then. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers I SANG Poem Text First Line: I sang to you and the moon Last Line: And is kind to me. ICE HANDLER Poem Text First Line: I know an ice handler who wears a flannel shirt with Last Line: When he came around to the saloon to tell the boys about it. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers ILLINOIS FARMER Poem Text First Line: Bury this old illinois farmer with respect Last Line: Dream of illinois corn. Subject(s): Farm Life; United States; Agriculture; Farmers; America IMPOSSIBLE IAMBICS Poem Text First Line: He saw a fire dancer take two flambeaus Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers IMPROVED FARM LAND Poem Text First Line: Tall timber stood here once, here on a corn belt farm along the monon Subject(s): Deforestation; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers IN A BACK ALLEY Poem Text First Line: Remembrance for a great man is this Last Line: Dead lover of boys, what do you ask for now? IN A BREATH; TO THE WILLIAMSON BROTHERS Poem Text First Line: High noon. White sun flashes on the michigan avenue Last Line: Trapsing along in flimsy clothes, play of sun-fire in their blood. Subject(s): Chicago IN GOD, TOO, LONELY Poem Text First Line: When god scooped up a handful of dust Subject(s): God; Creation; Loneliness IN TALL GRASS Poem Text First Line: Bees and a honeycomb in the dried head of a horse in Last Line: The bees come home and the bees sleep. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs INTERIOR Poem Text First Line: In the cool of the night time Last Line: And the clocks. IRON Poem Text First Line: Guns Last Line: The shovel is brother to the gun. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IT IS MUCH Poem Text First Line: Women of night life amid the lights Last Line: It is much to be warm and sure of to-morrow. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels JABBERERS Poem Text First Line: I rise out of my depths with my language Last Line: As the shower at a scissors grinder's wheel.... Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary JACK Poem Text First Line: Jack was a swarthy, swaggering son-of-a-gun Last Line: Swarthy, swaggering son-of-a-gun. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers JACK LONDON AND O.HENRY Poem Text First Line: Both were jailbirds; no speechmakers at all Last Line: Who knew the hearts of these boozefighters? Subject(s): London, Jack (1876-1916); O. Henry (1862-1910); Drinks & Drinking JAN KUBELIK Poem Text First Line: Your bow swept over a string, and a long low note Last Line: (all the girls in bohemia are laughing on a sunday afternoon in the hills with their lovers.) Subject(s): Kubelik, Jan (1880-1940); Music & Musicians JAWS Poem Text First Line: Seven nations stood with their hands on the jaws of Last Line: "o hell!" Subject(s): World War I; First World War JAZZ FANTASIA Poem Text Recitation First Line: Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos Subject(s): Jazz; Language; Music & Musicians; Words; Vocabulary JERRY Poem Text First Line: Six years I worked in a knitting mill at a machine Subject(s): Women - Abused; Marriage; Murder; Prisons & Prisoners; Wife Beating; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Convicts JOHN ERICSSON DAY MEMORIAL, 1918 Poem Text First Line: Into the gulf and the pit of the dark night, the cold night, there is Last Line: Gave -- and gave all. Subject(s): Soldiers JOLIET Poem Text First Line: On the one hand the steel works Last Line: Claws of an avalanche loosed here. Subject(s): Joliet, Illinois JOY Poem Text First Line: Let a joy keep you Last Line: Keep away from the little deaths. Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight JUNE Poem Text First Line: Paula is digging and shaping the loam of a salvia Last Line: And fluff of white from a cottonwood. JUNGHEIMER'S Poem Text First Line: In western fields of corn and northern timber lands Last Line: Riots. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons JUST BEFORE APRIL CAME Poem Text First Line: The snow-piles in dark places are gone Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States KILLERS (1) Poem Text First Line: I am singing to you Last Line: Sixteen million men. Subject(s): World War I; First World War KIN Poem Text First Line: Brother, I am fire Last Line: Maybe thousands of years, brother. KNUCKS Poem Text First Line: In abraham lincoln's city Last Line: This is abraham lincoln's home town. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Secondhand Trade KREISLER Poem Text First Line: Sell me a violin, mister, of old mysterious wood Last Line: For one more song. Subject(s): Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962); Violins LANDSCAPE Poem Text First Line: See the trees lean to the wind's way of leaning Subject(s): Trees; Wind LANGUAGES Poem Text First Line: There are no handles upon a language Last Line: Blowing ten thousand years ago. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LAST ANSWERS Poem Text First Line: I wrote a poem on the mist Last Line: Go running back to dust and mist. LAUGHING CORN Poem Text First Line: There was a high majestic fooling Last Line: The farmer and his wife talk things over together. Subject(s): Corn LAWYER Poem Text First Line: When the jury files in to deliver a verdict after weeks of direct Last Line: Of many preposterous, unjust circumstances. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers LEATHER LEGGINGS Poem Text First Line: They have taken the ball of earth Last Line: We go. LEGENDS Poem Text First Line: Five circus clowns dying this year, morning newspapers told their Last Line: Farms? LETTERS TO DEAD IMAGISTS Poem Text First Line: Emily dickinson Last Line: Nor the mumblings and shots that rise from dreams on call. Subject(s): Crane, Stephen (1871-1900); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) LI PO AND LAO TSE COME TO NEBRASKA First Line: Make a dialy memo of your eggs Subject(s): Farm Life; Nebraska; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips LIGHT AND MOONBELLS Poem Text First Line: The could bend low Subject(s): Light LIMITED Poem Text First Line: I am riding on a limited express, one of the crack trains of the nation Last Line: "I ask a man in the smoker where he is going and he answers: ""omaha." Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips LOAM Poem Text First Line: In the loam we sleep Last Line: A day. LOCALITIES Poem Text First Line: Wagon wheel gap is a place I never saw Last Line: Their mothers are through waiting for them to come home. Subject(s): Harbors LOIN CLOTH Poem Text First Line: Body of jesus taken down from the cross Last Line: And christ-love. Subject(s): Jesus Christ LOSERS Poem Text First Line: If I should pass the tomb of jonah Last Line: "come on, you ... Do you want to live forever?" Subject(s): Courage; World War I; Valor; Bravery; First World War LOSSES Poem Text First Line: I have love Last Line: Only the shadows.) LOST Poem Text Recitation First Line: Desolate and lone Last Line: And the harbor's eyes. Subject(s): Boats; Great Lakes LOVE BEYOND KEEPING Poem Text First Line: She had a box Subject(s): Love - Nature Of MAG Poem Text First Line: I wish to god I never saw you, mag Last Line: I wish to god the kids had never come. MAMIE Poem Text First Line: Mamie beat her head against the bars of a little indiana Last Line: That never go smash. MAMMY HUMS Poem Text First Line: This is the song I rested with Last Line: Then the face of sleep must be the one face you were looking for. MAN AND DOG ON AN EARLY WINTER MORNING Poem Text First Line: There was a tall slough grass Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States MAN, THE MAN-HUNTER Poem Text First Line: I saw man, the man-hater Last Line: The -- son of a bitch. Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Hate; Social Protest; Mobs; Crowds MANITOBA CHILDE ROLAND Poem Text First Line: Last night a january wind was ripping at the shingles over our house Last Line: It was beautiful to her and she could not understand. MANUFACTURED GODS Poem Text First Line: They put up big wooden gods Subject(s): Religion; Theology MARGARET Poem Text First Line: Many birds and the beating of wings Last Line: Eager as the great morning. MASK Poem Text First Line: Fling your red scarf faster and faster, dancer Last Line: Summer and the sun command you. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers MASSES Poem Text First Line: Among the mountains I wandered and saw blue haze and red crag and was amazed Last Line: Humble ruins of nations. Variant Title(s): The Poor Subject(s): Justice MEDALLION Poem Text First Line: The brass medallion profile of your face I keep always Last Line: Swears behind silent lips that the sea will bring home what is gone. MEDLEY Poem Text First Line: Ignorance came in stones of gold Subject(s): Ignorance; Books; Crimes & Criminals; Dullness; Stupdity; Reading MEMOIR Poem Text First Line: Papa joffre, the shoulders of him wide as the land of france Last Line: A lift of white sun on a stony beach. Subject(s): Joffre, Joseph Jacques (1852-1931); World War I; First World War MEMOIR OF A PROUD BOY Poem Text First Line: He lived on the wings of storm Last Line: Is a leather bag of poems and short stories. Subject(s): Mexico; Murder; Villa, Francisco (Pancho) (1878-1923) METAMORPHOSIS Poem Text First Line: When water turns ice does it remember Subject(s): Middle West; Science; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Scientists MILK-WHITE MOON, PUT THE COWS TO SLEEP Poem Text MILL-DOORS Poem Text First Line: You never come back Last Line: You never come back. MIST FORMS Poem Text First Line: The sheets of night-mist travel a long valley Last Line: A riddle here no man tells, no woman. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MOMUS Poem Text First Line: Momus is the name men give your face Last Line: And blood drops of undiminishing war. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical MONOSYLLABIC Poem Text First Line: Let me be monosyllabic today, o lord Last Line: Enjoy slow-pacing clocks. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary MONOTONE Poem Text First Line: The monotone of the rain is beautiful Last Line: And the peace of long warm rain. Subject(s): Beauty MOON-RIDERS Poem Text First Line: What have I saved out of a morning? Subject(s): Morning; Jobs; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers MOONSET Poem Text First Line: Leaves of poplars pick japanese prints against the west Last Line: Only dark listening to dark. Subject(s): Moon MR, LONGFELLOW AND HIS BOY Poem Text First Line: Mr, longfellow, henry wadsworth longfellow, the harvard professors Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) MR. ATTILA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: They made a myth of you, professor Subject(s): Attila, King Of The Huns (434-453); Academia; Wit & Humor MUCKERS Poem Text First Line: Twenty men stand watching the muckers Last Line: "ten others, ""jesus, I wish I had the job." Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers MURMURINGS IN A FIELD HOSPITAL Poem Text First Line: Come to me only with playthings now Last Line: And the world was all playthings. Subject(s): Hospitals; World War I; First World War MYSTERIOUS BIOGRAPHY Poem Text First Line: Christofo columbo was a hungry man Subject(s): Holidays NEAR KEOKUK Poem Text First Line: Thirty-two greeks are dipping their feet in a creek Last Line: And then the deep sleep of children. Subject(s): Greece; Greeks NEW FEET Poem Text First Line: Empty battlefields keep their phantoms Last Line: Reaching a blossom in rust of shrapnel. Subject(s): War NIAGARA Poem Text First Line: The tumblers of the rapids go white, go green Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls NIGGER Poem Text First Line: I am the nigger Last Line: I am the nigger. Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry NIGHT BELLS Poem Text First Line: Two bells...Six bells Subject(s): Bells; Night; Bedtime NIGHT MOVEMENT - NEW YORK Poem Text First Line: In the night, when the sea winds take the city in their arms Subject(s): New York City; Night; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Bedtime NOCTURN CABBAGE Poem Text First Line: Cabbages catch all the moon Subject(s): Cabbage NOCTURNE IN A DESERTED BRICKYARD Poem Text First Line: Stuff of the moon Last Line: Make a wide dreaming pansy of an old pond in the night. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds NOON HOUR Poem Text First Line: She sits in the dust at the walls Last Line: Of great free ways beyond the walls. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Women; Work; Workers NORTH ATLANTIC Poem Text First Line: When the sea is everywhere Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean NUMBER MAN Poem Text First Line: He was born to wonder about numbers. Subject(s): Numbers OLD DEEP SING-SONG Poem Text First Line: In the old deep sing-song of the sea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean OLD OSAWATOMIE Poem Text First Line: John brown's body under the morning stars Last Line: On a six-foot stage of dust. Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; U.s. - History; Anti-slavery; Serfs OLD TIMERS Poem Text First Line: I am an ancient reluctant conscript Last Line: I am an ancient reluctant conscript. Subject(s): Veterans OLD WOMAN Poem Text First Line: The owl-car clatters along, dogged by the echo Last Line: Homeless. Subject(s): Homeless; Old Age; Women OLD-FASHIONED REQUITED LOVE Poem Text First Line: I have ransacked the encyclopedia Subject(s): Love ON A FLIMMERING FLOOM YOU SHALL RIDE Poem Text First Line: Nobody noogers the shaff of a sloo Subject(s): Macleish, Archibald (1892-1982) ON THE BREAKWATER Poem Text First Line: On the breakwater in the summer dark, a man and a Last Line: And two on the breakwater keep their silence, she on his knee. ON THE WAY Poem Text First Line: Little one, you have been buzzing in the books Last Line: And all things human rise from the mob and relapse and rise again as rain to the sea? ONE MODERN POET Poem Text First Line: Having heard the instruction Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ONION DAYS Poem Text First Line: Mrs. Gabrielle giovannitti comes along peoria street Last Line: Morning. OSAWATOMIE Poem Text First Line: I don't know how he came Last Line: And the fool killers had a laugh Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Native Americans; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America OUR HELLS Poem Text First Line: Milton unlocked hell for us Subject(s): Hell; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Milton, John (1608-1674) OUR PRAYER OF THANKS Poem Text First Line: For the gladness here where the sun is shining at evening Last Line: Our prayer of thanks. Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology OUT OF WHITE LIPS Poem Text First Line: Out of white lips a question: shall seven million dead ask for their blood Subject(s): War PAINTED FISHES Poem Text First Line: Green fishes on a red-lacquered tray Subject(s): Paintings And Painters PALLADIUMS Poem Text First Line: In the newspaper office - who are the spooks? Last Line: Speak easy -- the sacred cows must be fed. Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists PALS Poem Text First Line: Take a hold now Last Line: A locked-up story. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials PASSERS-BY Poem Text First Line: Passers-by, / out of your many faces Last Line: When you passed by. PEARL FOG Poem Text First Line: Open the door now Last Line: Of the laws you have broken. Subject(s): Fog; Sin; Haze PEARL HORIZONS Poem Text First Line: Under a prairie fog moon Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States PENCILS Poem Text First Line: Pencils / telling where the wind comes form Subject(s): Pens & Pencils PEOPLE WHO MUST Poem Text First Line: I put my easel on the roof of a skyscraper Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; City & Town Life PERSONALITY Poem Text First Line: You have loved forty women, but you have only one Last Line: Of this. PICNIC BOAT Poem Text First Line: Sunday night and the park policemen tell each other it is dark as a stack ... Last Line: For the home-comers. Subject(s): Boats; Chicago PLACES Poem Text First Line: Roses and gold Subject(s): Waiting; Fame; Reputation PLANKED WHITEFISH Poem Text First Line: Over an order of planked whitefish at a downtown club Last Line: "war is the game of a lot of god-damned fools." Subject(s): Pacifism; World War I; Peace Movements; First World War PLOWBOY Poem Text First Line: After the last red sunset glimmer Last Line: And haze of an april gloaming. Subject(s): Plowing & Plowmen POEMS DONE ON A LATE NIGHT CAR Poem Text First Line: I am the great white way of the city POEMS DONE ON A LATE NIGHT CAR: 3. HOME Poem Text First Line: Here is a thing my heart wishes the world had more of Last Line: To a mother singing softly to a child restless and angry in the darkness. POOL Poem Text First Line: Out of the fire Last Line: Writhed into a stiff pool. POPPIES Poem Text First Line: She loves blood-red poppies for a garden to walk in Last Line: She loves blood-red poppies for a garden to walk in. Subject(s): Poppies POPULATION DRIFTS Poem Text First Line: New-mown hay smell and wind of the plain made her Last Line: Of life again with tough hands and passion. PORTRAIT OF A MOTOR CAR Poem Text First Line: It's a lean car - a long-legged dog of a car - a gray ghost eagle car Last Line: Gray-ghost car. Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars POTATO BLOSSOM SONGS AND JIGS Poem Text First Line: Rum tiddy um Last Line: "let romance stutter to the western stars, ""excuse ... Me..." PRAIRIE Poem Text First Line: I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover Last Line: To-morrow is a day. PRAIRIE WATERS BY NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Chatter of birds two by two raises a night Last Line: Running water. PRAYERS OF STEEL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Lay me on an anvil, o god Last Line: White stars. Subject(s): Cities; Skyscrapers; Steel; Urban Life PRIMER LESSON Poem Text First Line: Look out how you use proud words Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PSALM OF THOSE WHO GO FORTH BEFORE DAYLIGHT Poem Text First Line: The policeman buys shoes slow and careful Last Line: Ears; they are brothers of cinders. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers QUESTIONAIRE Poem Text First Line: Have I told any man to be a liar for my sake? QUESTIONNAIRE Poem Text First Line: Have I told any man to be a liar for my sake? Last Line: Windows and the newspapers? READY TO KILL Poem Text First Line: Ten minutes now I have been looking at this Last Line: Ready to run the red blood and slush the bowels of men all over the sweet new grass of the prairie. Subject(s): Statues; World War I; First World War RED AND WHITE Poem Text First Line: Nobody picks a red rose when the winter wind howls and the Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States REMEMBERED WOMEN Poem Text First Line: For a woman's face remembered as a spot of quick light on the flat land Last Line: The women they left behind, they fight on. Subject(s): Soldiers; Women REMORSE Poem Text First Line: The horse's name was remorse Subject(s): Horses REPETITIONS Poem Text First Line: They are crying salt tears Subject(s): Milholland, Inez (1886-1916); Death; Boissevain, Inez Milholland; Dead, The REPITITIONS Poem Text First Line: They are crying salt tears Last Line: And morning air. RIVER ROADS Poem Text First Line: Let the crows go by hawking their caw and caw Last Line: Shawl on lazy shoulders. SALVAGE Poem Text First Line: Guns on the battle lines have pounded now a year Last Line: Guns on the battle lines have pounded a year now between brussels and paris. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SAND SCRIBBLINGS Poem Text First Line: The wind stops, the wind begins SANDHILL PEOPLE Poem Text First Line: I took away three pictures Last Line: Wears between sunset and dusk. Subject(s): Death; Love; Silence; Dead, The SANTA FE SKETCHES Poem Text First Line: The valley was swept with a blue broom to the west Last Line: "we forget." Subject(s): Sante Fe, New Mexico SAYINGS OF HENRY STEPHENS Poem Text First Line: If you get enough money Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Farm Life; Coal Mines & Miners; Springfield, Illinois'; Strikes; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Agriculture; Farmers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts SEA-WASH Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The sea-wash never ends Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SELLING SPIEL ON MAXWELL STREET First Line: This blanket is a tough weave, sir Subject(s): Markets; Supermarkets SHEEP Poem Text First Line: Thousands of sheep, soft-footed, black-nosed sheep Last Line: Hills with your hoofs. Subject(s): Sheep SHENANDOAH Poem Text First Line: In the shenandoah valley, one rider grey and one rider blue, and Last Line: Heads of a rider blue and a rider gray in the shenandoah. Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; U.s. - History SHIRT (1) Poem Text First Line: I remember once I ran after you and tagged the fluttering Last Line: Run away again when I tag the fluttering shirt of you. SILVER NAILS Poem Text First Line: A man was crucified. He came to the city a stranger Last Line: John silvernail on the statue. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion SINGING NIGGER Poem Text First Line: Your bony head, jazbo, o dock walloper, Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks SIX FEET SIX WAS DAVY TIPTON Poem Text SIXTEEN MONTHS Poem Text First Line: On the lips of the child janet float changing dreams Last Line: Young light blue calls to young light gold of morning. Subject(s): Children; Childhood SKETCH Poem Text First Line: The shadows of the ships Last Line: Are the shadows of the ships. SKYSCRAPER Poem Text Recitation First Line: By day the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and Last Line: By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul. Subject(s): Skyscrapers; United States; America SLANTS AT BUFFALO, NEW YORK Poem Text First Line: A forefinger of stone, dreamed by a sculptor, points to the sky Last Line: ...Erie with norse blue eyes ... And the white sun. Subject(s): Buffalo (City), New York SMOKE Poem Text First Line: I sit in a chair and read the newspapers Last Line: I sit in a chair and read the newspapers. Subject(s): Smoke SMOKE AND STEEL Poem Text First Line: Smoke of the fields in spring is one Subject(s): Courage; Justice; Steel; Valor; Bravery SMOKE ROSE GOLD Poem Text First Line: The dome of the capitol ooks to the potomac river Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c. SOAPSUDS Poem Text First Line: Blue and amber lay in the soapsuds Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Showers & Showering SOILED DOVE Poem Text First Line: Let us be honest; the lady was not a harlot until she Last Line: To year, and wonders sometimes how one man is coming along with six women. Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SOUP Poem Text First Line: I saw a famous man eating soup Subject(s): United States; America SOUTHERN PACIFIC Poem Text First Line: Huntington sleeps in a house six feet long Last Line: Blithery, sleep in houses six feet long. Subject(s): Graves; Huntington, Collis Potter (1821-1900); Railroads; Tombs; Tombstones; Railways; Trains SPLINTER Poem Text First Line: The voice of the last cricket Subject(s): Animals STARS Poem Text First Line: The stars are too many to count Subject(s): Science; Scientists STATISTICS Poem Text First Line: Napoleon shifted Last Line: And the cool night stars. Subject(s): World War I; First World War STILL LIFE Poem Text First Line: Cool your heels on the rail of an observation car Last Line: Lovers pass whispering. Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States STREET WINDOW Poem Text First Line: The pawn-shop man knows hunger Last Line: They tell stories. Subject(s): Justice STYLE Poem Text First Line: Style - go ahead talking about style Last Line: And you blind ty cobb's batting eye. Subject(s): Style SUBWAY Poem Text First Line: Down between the walls of shadow Last Line: Throw their laughter into toil. Subject(s): Subways SUMMER GRASS Poem Text First Line: Summer grass aches and whispers Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States SUMMER SHIRT SALE Poem Text First Line: The summer shirt sale of a downtown haberdasher is glorified Last Line: Challenge to the ghost who walks on paydays. Subject(s): Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers SUMMER STARS Poem Text First Line: Bend low again, night of summer stars Subject(s): Stars; Summer SUNSET FROM OMAHA HOTEL WINDOW Poem Text First Line: Into the blue river hills Last Line: They circle in a dome over nebraska. Subject(s): Stars SUNSETS Poem Text First Line: There are sunsets who whisper a good-by Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SWELL PEOPLE Poem Text First Line: There will always be monkeys and peacocks Subject(s): Monkeys; Peacocks TAKE A LETTER TO DMITRI SHOSTAKOVITCH Poem Text First Line: All over america last sunday afternoon goes your symphony no. 7 Subject(s): Russia; World War Ii; Soviet Union; Russians; Second World War TANGIBLES Poem Text First Line: I have seen this city in the day and the sun Last Line: There is ... Something ... Here ... Men die for. Subject(s): Patriotism; Washington, D.c. TESTAMENT Poem Text First Line: I give the undertakers permission to haul my body Last Line: One of the two and I have told no man why. THE ABRACADABRA BOYS Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Language; Social Classes; Words; Vocabulary; Caste THE ANSWER Poem Text First Line: You have spoken the answer Last Line: Working. THE FOUR BROTHERS Poem Text First Line: Make war songs out of these Last Line: New sleepy-time songs. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE GREAT HUNT Poem Text First Line: I cannot tell you now Last Line: Greater than you. Subject(s): Love THE HAMMER Poem Text First Line: I have seen Subject(s): Fame; Transience; Reputation; Impermanence THE HARBOR Poem Text First Line: Passing through huddled and ugly walls Last Line: Veering and wheeling free in the open. Subject(s): Harbors THE HAS-BEEN Poem Text First Line: A stone face higher than six horses stood five thousand Last Line: Clutch a secret. Subject(s): Statues THE JUNK MAN Poem Text First Line: I am glad god saw death Last Line: Away. Subject(s): Death; Junk And Junkyards; Dead, The THE LAW SAYS Poem Text First Line: The law says you and I belong to each other, george Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Attorneys THE LAWYERS KNOW TOO MUCH Poem Text First Line: The lawyers, bob, know too much Last Line: The lawyers -- tell me why a hearse horse snickers hauling a lawyer's bones. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers THE LONG SHADOW OF LINCOLN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Be sad, be cool, be kind Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States THE MAN WITH THE BROKEN FINGERS' Poem Text Last Line: And death is a quiet step into a sweet clean midnight Subject(s): Torture; World War Ii; Norway; Nazis THE MAN WITH THE BROKEN FINGERS' Poem Text THE MIST Poem Text First Line: I am the mist, the impalpable mist Last Line: Bar them all. Subject(s): Mist THE NAKED STRANGER Poem Text First Line: It is five months' off Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE NEXT CHILD WAITS Poem Text First Line: I know the city waits - the next child waits - there is a great singing, mother Subject(s): Creation THE PEOPLE, YES: 107 Poem Text First Line: The people will live on Subject(s): Perseverance THE PEOPLE, YES: 57 Poem Text First Line: Lincoln? / he was a mystery in smoke and flags THE PEOPLE, YES: 86 Poem Text First Line: The people, yes, the people Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE POOR Poem Text First Line: Among the mountains I wandered and saw blue haze Subject(s): Thought; Poverty; Social Commentaries; Thinking THE RED SON Poem Text First Line: I love your faces I saw the many years Last Line: You for the little hills and I go away. THE RIGHT TO GRIEF Poem Text First Line: Take your fill of intimate remorse, perfumed sorrow, Last Line: With a broom. Variant Title(s): The Right To Grief; To Certain Poets About To Die Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE ROAD AND THE END Poem Text First Line: I shall foot it Last Line: Shall touch my hands and face. THE ROAN HORSE' Poem Text First Line: The roan horse is young and will learn: the roan horse buckles into harness Last Line: Hanging to a white star between the ears Subject(s): Middle West; Horses; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States THE ROAN HORSE' Poem Text First Line: The roan horse is young and will learn: the roan horse buckles into harness THE SEA HOLD Poem Text First Line: The sea is large Last Line: The sea must know more than any of us. Subject(s): Chesapeake Bay; Sea; Ocean THE SHOVEL MAN Poem Text First Line: On the street / slung on his shoulder is a handle half way across Last Line: Better than all the wild grapes that ever grew in tuscany. THE WALKING MAN OF RODIN Poem Text First Line: Legs hold a torso away from the earth Last Line: The skull found always crumbling neighbor of the ankles. Subject(s): Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) THE WINDY CITY: 1 Poem Text First Line: The lean hands of wagon men Subject(s): Chicago THE WINDY CITY: 6 Poem Text First Line: The wheelbarrows grin, the shovels and the mortar Subject(s): Chicago THE YEAR Poem Text First Line: A storm of white petals Last Line: Great lullabies to the long sleepers. THEME IN YELLOW Poem Text First Line: I spot the hills Last Line: I am fooling. Subject(s): Pumpkins THEY ALL WANT TO PLAY HAMLET Poem Text First Line: Http://www.Youtube.Com/watch?V=undc7h-a7i4 THEY ASK: IS GOD, TOO, LONELY Poem Text First Line: When god scooped up a handful of dust Subject(s): Friendship THEY WILL SAY Poem Text First Line: Of my city the worst that men will ever say is this Last Line: For a little handful of pay on a few saturday nights. THREE BALLS Poem Text First Line: Jabowsky's place is on a side street and only the rain washes Last Line: Place on a side street. Subject(s): Pawnshops; Pawnbrokers THREE PIECES ON THE SMOKE OF AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: Smoke of autumn is on it all. Subject(s): Autumn; Smoke; Fall THREE SPRING NOTATIONS ON BIPEDS Poem Text First Line: The down drop of the blackbird Last Line: She throws a stone and laughs at the clug-clug. Subject(s): Spring THREES Poem Text First Line: I was a boy when I heard three red words Last Line: Ham and eggs -- how much? -- and -- do you love me, kid? Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THROW ROSES Poem Text First Line: Throw roses on the sea where the dead went down Subject(s): Sea; Death; Roses; Ocean; Dead, The TIMBER MOON Poem Text First Line: There is a way the moon looks into the timber at night Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States TIMESWEEP Poem Text First Line: I was born in the morning of the world Subject(s): Animals; Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation TO A CONTEMPORARY BUNKSHOOTER Poem Text First Line: You come along...Tearing your shirt...Yelling about Last Line: Nazareth. Variant Title(s): Billy Sunday Subject(s): Jesus Christ TO A DEAD MAN Poem Text First Line: Over the dead line we have called to you Last Line: Splattering the sea with crimson. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO BEACHEY, 1912 Poem Text First Line: Riding against the east Last Line: With the cool, calm shadow at the wheel. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators TO CERTAIN JOURNEYMEN Poem Text First Line: Undertakers, hearse drivers, grave diggers Last Line: And you earn a living by those who say good-by today in thin whispers. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers TO THE GHOST OF JOHN MILTON Poem Text First Line: If I should pamphleteer twenty years against royalists Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) TRAFFICKER Poem Text First Line: Among the shadows where two streets cross Last Line: And no takers. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TRANSFORMATION Poem Text First Line: In many homes / one sees old shrapnel cases Last Line: Let me work. Subject(s): Change; Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TROTHS Poem Text First Line: Yellow dust on a bumble Last Line: On some I keep. TWO Poem Text First Line: Memory of you is - a blue spear of flower Last Line: And they cover you. Subject(s): Flowers TWO NEIGHBORS Poem Text First Line: Faces of two eternities keep looking at me Last Line: Let them look. TWO NOCTURNS Poem Text First Line: The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat Subject(s): Sea; Prairies; Loneliness; Ocean; Plains UNDER Poem Text First Line: I am the undertow Last Line: To-morrow. UNDER A HAT RIM Poem Text First Line: While the hum and the hurry Last Line: To a broken state-room door. UNDER A TELEPHONE POLE Poem Text First Line: I am a copper wire slung in the air Last Line: A copper wire. Subject(s): Telephones UNDER THE HARVEST MOON UPLANDS IN MAY Poem Text First Line: Wonder as of old things Last Line: The great strong hills are humble. Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (Great Britain) UPSTAIRS Poem Text First Line: I too have a garret of old playthings Last Line: I too have a garret of old playthings. Subject(s): Attics; Toys UPSTREAM Poem Text First Line: The strong men keep coming on Last Line: The strong men keep coming on. Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Men; Dead, The; Liberty USELESS WORDS Poem Text First Line: So long as we speak the same language and do not understand each other Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary VALLEY SONG Poem Text First Line: Your eyes and the valley are memories Last Line: All three are gone -- and I keep all three. VILLAGE IN LATE SUMMER Poem Text First Line: Lips half-willing in a doorway Last Line: And the farmers make half-answers. Subject(s): Villages WAITING Poem Text First Line: Today I will let the old boat stand Last Line: And we are husky and lusty and shouting-gay. Subject(s): Waiting WALL SHADOWS Poem Text First Line: These walls they knew those shadows Subject(s): Supernatural WARS Poem Text First Line: In the old wars drum of hoofs and the beat of shod feet Last Line: Dreamed out in the heads of men. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WASHERWOMAN Poem Text First Line: The washerwoman is a member of the salvation army Last Line: Rubbing underwear she sings of the last great washday. Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Washerwomen WASHINGTON MONUMENT BY NIGHT Poem Text First Line: The stone goes straight Last Line: ... ... ... Subject(s): Washington Monument WE HAVE GONE THROUGH GREAT ROOMS TOGETHER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: And when on the dark steel came the roads Last Line: We can always say we have gone through great rooms together. Subject(s): Relationships; Stars WE MUST BE POLITE: 1 Poem Text First Line: If we meet a gorilla Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Etiquette; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Manners; Courtesy WE MUST BE POLITE: 2 Poem Text First Line: If an elephant knocks on your door Subject(s): Elephants; Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy WHIFFS OF THE OHIO RIVER AT CINCINNATI First Line: A young thing in spring green slippers, stockings, silk vivd as lilac-time gras Subject(s): Cincinnati, Ohio; Ohio River WHITE SHOULDERS Poem Text First Line: Your white shoulders Last Line: From your white shoulders. WHITELIGHT Poem Text First Line: Your whitelight flashes the frost to-night Last Line: Remember me one of your lovers of dreams. WHO AM I? Poem Text First Line: My head knocks against the stars Last Line: My name is truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe. Subject(s): Truth WILDERNESS Poem Text First Line: There is a wolf in me - fangs pointed for tearing gashes Last Line: Am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness. Subject(s): Men WILDERNESS MAN Poem Text First Line: Whiskers a wren could nest in Subject(s): Mankind; Wilderness; Human Race WINDFLOWER LEAF Poem Text First Line: This flower is repeated Last Line: The wind young and strong lets these last longer than stones. Subject(s): Flowers; Wind WINDOW Poem Text First Line: Night from a railroad car window Last Line: Broken across with slashes of light. Subject(s): Night; Railroads; Bedtime; Railways; Trains WORK GANGS Poem Text First Line: Box cars run a mile long Subject(s): Americans; Justice; Labor & Laborers; United States; Work; Workers; America WORKING GIRLS Poem Text First Line: The working girls in the morning are going to work Last Line: Streets. Subject(s): Child Labor; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers YESSIR MISTER Poem Text First Line: Yessir mister mystery dwells in dese dose dem Subject(s): Family Life; Language; Relatives; Words; Vocabulary YOUNG BULLFROGS Poem Text First Line: Jimmy wimbleton listened a first week in june Last Line: Jimmy wimbledon listened. Subject(s): Animals; Frogs YOUNG SEA Poem Text First Line: The sea is never still Last Line: Where storms and stars come from. Subject(s): Nature; Sea; Ocean |
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