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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SHIRT (1), by CARL SANDBURG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
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.
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.
I REMEMBER once I ran after you and tagged the fluttering shirt of you in the wind.
Once many days ago I drank a glassful of something and the picture of you shivered and slid on top
of the stuff.
And again it was nobody else but you I heard in the singing voice of a careless humming woman.
One night when I sat with chums telling stories at a bonfire flickering red embers, in a language
its own talking to a spread of white stars:
It was you that slunk laughing
in the clumsy staggering shadows.
Broken answers of remembrance let me know you are alive with a peering phantom face behind a
doorway somewhere in the city's push and fury
Or under a pack of moss and leaves waiting in silence under a twist of oaken arms ready as ever to
run away again when I tag the fluttering shirt of you.
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