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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWO NEIGHBORS, by CARL SANDBURG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Faces of two eternities keep looking at me
Last Line: Let them look.
First Line: Faces of two eternities keep looking at me
Last Line: Let them look.
FACES of two eternities keep looking at me.
One is Omar Khayam and the red stuff
wherein men forget yesterday and to-morrow
and remember only the voices and songs,
the stories, newspapers and fights of today.
One is Louis Cornaro and a slim trick
of slow, short meals across slow, short years,
letting Death open the door only in slow, short inches.
I have a neighbor who swears by Omar.
I have a neighbor who swears by Cornaro.
Both are happy.
Faces of two eternities keep looking at me.
Let them look.
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