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| Searching... Author: SANDBURG, CARL Matches Found: 738 Sandburg, Carl Poet's Biography 738 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 OF COLUMBUS First Line: Columbus is remembered by young men Subject(s): Holidays 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 APRONS OF SILENCE First Line: Many things I might have said today Last Line: Do you see? It must be the aprons of silence ARITHMETIC Poem Text First Line: Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head Subject(s): Mathematics ARITHMETIC First Line: Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head Last Line: Two fired eggs and you eat both of them, who is better in arithmetic, %you or your mother? Subject(s): Mathematics ARMS First Line: Renoir goes on painting Last Line: And I will ask you why renoir does it %and I believe you will tell me ASHES AND DREAMS First Line: Silence, %dry sobs of darkness Last Line: (mothers of the world %your waste of work) 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 AT THE GATE OF TOMBS First Line: Civilizations are set up and knocked down AUCTIONEER First Line: Now I go down here and bring up a moon Last Line: Come gentlemen, no nonsense, make me a bid 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 BABY SONG OF THE FOUR WINDS First Line: Let me be your baby, south wind Last Line: I'm your baby-and I always was BABY TOES First Line: There is a blue star, janet Last Line: Or the white star? 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 BAS-RELIEF First Line: Five geese deploy mysteriously Last Line: Sombrely, slowly, unimpeachably, %five geese deploy mysteriously 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 BE READY First Line: Be land ready Last Line: You shall go back, back to the sky BEE SONG Poem Text First Line: Bees in the late summer sun Subject(s): Animals BEE SONG First Line: Bees in the late summer sun Last Line: Droning, droning a sleepysong Subject(s): Animals BEE! I'M EXPECTING YOU! First Line: Bee! I'm expecting you! Last Line: Or better, be with me- %yours, fly BETWEEN TWO HILLS BIG STONES OF THE EGYPTIAN TOMBS First Line: I was a tomb of the pharaohs Last Line: There is always the blue peace of the big blue lake michigan BILBEA Poem Text First Line: Bilbea, I was in babylon on saturday night Last Line: And take care of yourself. BIRD TALK First Line: And now when the branches were beginning to be heavy Last Line: Or if I have put your voice among bird voices, %blame me no more than the bluejays BITTER SUMMER THOUGHTS: NO. 3 First Line: Firecrackers came from china BLACK PROPERTIES First Line: I makes my livin' washin' Last Line: When will it be in the papers 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. BLUE ISLAND INTERSECTION First Line: Six street-ends come together here BLUEBIRD, WHAT DO YOU FEED ON? First Line: Bluebird, what do you feed on? Last Line: Bluebird, tell us, what do you %feed on? 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 BOXES AND BAGS First Line: The bigger the box the more it holds Last Line: Box people go looking for boxes and bag people go looking for bags BOY AND FATHER Poem Text First Line: The boy alexander understands his father to be a famous lawyer. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; God; Mothers BRANCHES First Line: The dancing girls here - after a long night of it 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 BRIGHT CONVERSATION WITH SAINT-EX First Line: When the smoke of the clouds parted Last Line: And I am asking why I should tell a star %to go on being a star 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 BROKEN-FACE GARGOYLES First Line: All I can give you is broken-face gargoyles BRONZES Poem Text First Line: They ask me to handle bronzes Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors BRONZES First Line: They ask me to handle bronzes Subject(s): Sculpture And 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 BUBBLES First Line: Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves Last Line: It was worth being a bubble just to have held that %rainbowthirty seconds.' 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 BUFFALO DUSK First Line: The buffaloes are gone Last Line: And the buffaloes are gone Subject(s): Buffaloes; Environment; Middle West BUG SPOTS First Line: This bug carries spots on his back Last Line: Now he has errands again in a rotten stump BUNDLES Poem Text First Line: I have thought of beaches, fields, Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence BUNDLES First Line: I have thought of beaches, fields Last Line: I have asked to be left a few tears %and some laughter 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 CADENZA First Line: The knees Last Line: The knees %of this proud woman %know these thoughts %and know these speeches %of the summer and wint CAHOOTS Poem Text First Line: Play it across the table. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals CAHOOTS First Line: Play it across the table Last Line: There oughta be a law everybody wear mittens 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 CIRCLES First Line: The white man drew a small circle in the sand Last Line: White man and the red man know nothing' Subject(s): United States CLARK STREET BRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Dust of the feet Last Line: Softer than the mist. Subject(s): Chicago CLEAN CURTAINS First Line: New neighbors come to the corner house at congress and green streets CLEO First Line: Born of a slave mother and father, she toiled Last Line: The fields and the earth were kind to her 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 CORN AND BEANS First Line: Having looked long at two garden rows Last Line: If I change these names next sunday I shall let you know about it CORNUCOPIA Poem Text First Line: The naked cornucpoia of autumn fields Subject(s): Autumn; Fall COUPLE First Line: He was in cincinnnati, she in burlington Last Line: Yet they never get tired of each other; they are a couple CRABAPPLES Poem Text First Line: Sweeten these bitter wild crabapples, illinois Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States CRABAPPLES First Line: Sweeten these bitter wild crabapples, illinois Last Line: Earth under, they know you from last year, %the year before last year, october sun Subject(s): Middle West CRAPSHOOTERS First Line: Somebody loses whenever somebody wins CRICKET MARCH Poem Text First Line: As the corn becomes higher Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States CRICKET MARCH First Line: As the corn becomes higher Last Line: The summer crickets come to a marching army Subject(s): Middle West 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 CHANGES PEOPLE First Line: Did I see a crucifix in your eyes 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 CROSSING OHIO WHEN POPPIES BLOOM IN ASHTABULA First Line: Pick me poppies in ohio Last Line: Bula, shoot it up, give us a daylight fire- %works in ohio, burn it up with tawny red gold Subject(s): Ohio CUMULATIVES Poem Text First Line: Storms have beaten on this point of land Last Line: Along the city streets. DAILIES First Line: I am on the streets all the time Last Line: I am dirty and always fighting. %the people want me DAN Poem Text First Line: Early may, after cold rain the sun Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DAN First Line: Early may, after cold rain the sun Last Line: Against each other on his paws %and head Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DANIEL WEBSTER First Line: What is more baffling to men than glory Last Line: Seldom do orators die in so oratorical a manner DAYBREAK Poem Text First Line: Daybreak comes first / in thin splinters shimmering Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States DAYBREAK First Line: Daybreak comes first %in thin splinters shimmering Last Line: And day whispers, 'soon now, soon.' Subject(s): Middle West 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 DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOOD-BY First Line: Good-by is a loose word, a yellow ribbon Last Line: And there is the big grand good-by to the thousand %all at once, the whole works 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 DOORS First Line: An open door says, 'come in.' Last Line: Doors forget but only doors know what it is %doors forget 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? DUNSANY First Line: Dunsany, soldier, vagabond, horseman, dreamer Last Line: Anywheres in the british isles 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 EASTLAND First Line: Let's be honest now Last Line: And a dozen more going home at night EDGAR LEE MASTERS First Line: They came to my office as clients Last Line: Alone among the brass cuspidors of a lawyer's office ELIZABETH UMPSTEAD First Line: I am elizabeth umpstead, dead at seventy-five years of age, and they Last Line: Damn him and damn him, for a sneak into the face of god and man ELM BUDS First Line: Elm buds are out Last Line: They are moving mice creeping out %with leaf and leaf EUGENE V. DEBS First Line: On his face as he lay, at peace at last, in terre haute Last Line: Renamed, he speaks at ease with garrison, john brown, %albers EVENING WATERFALL Poem Text First Line: What was the name you called me? Subject(s): Names EVER A SEEKER First Line: The fingers turn the pages Last Line: Amid storm and dream EXCERPT FROM A LETTER TO PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN First Line: Dear mr. President: %your deeply moving letter about those lincoln volumes Last Line: Faithfully yours, %carl sandburg EZRA [POUND] First Line: Good reading good reading Last Line: He is my crazy brudder FACE First Line: I would beat out your face in brass Last Line: A dream of blue and brass 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 FIFTY-FIFTY 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) FIRST KISS CAME WITH FLAME Last Line: She beckoned him to a tall dome of stars FISH CRIER Poem Text First Line: I know a jew fish crier down on maxwell street with a Last Line: Wares from a pushcart. FIVE TOWNS ON THE B. AND O First Line: By day - tireless smokestacks - hungry smoky shanties 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 FLASH CRIMSON First Line: I shall cry god to give me a broken foot 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. FLAT WATERS OF THE WEST IN KANSAS First Line: After the sunset in the mountains 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. FOOLISH ABOUT WINDOWS First Line: I was foolish about windows Last Line: And I said, 'birds of a feather should not throw stones and a soft %answer turneth away rats.' FOR CHRIST'S SAKE First Line: Two christs were at golgotha FOR YOU First Line: The peace of great doors be for you 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 FOURTH OF JULY NIGHT First Line: The little boat at anchor Last Line: The little boat at anchor %in black water sat murmuring %to the tall black sky Subject(s): Fireworks; Fourth Of July 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 GALOOTS First Line: Galoots, you hairy, hankering Last Line: Your exhausts, hunt your snacks of fat and lean, grab off yours 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 GOD'S CHILDREN First Line: I hear billy sunday Last Line: Born from a fiddler's bitch and kicked from one back door to 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, SELS. First Line: Now it's uncle sam sitting on top of the world Subject(s): Holidays 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 GOOD MORNING, AMERICA: 11 First Line: A code arrives; language, lingo; slang Last Line: Keep your shirt on GOOD MORNING, AMERICA: 12 First Line: First come the pioneers, lean, hungry, fierce, dirty Last Line: The bones of them and their brothers blanch the same yellow of the years GOOD NIGHT First Line: Many ways to spell good night Last Line: It is easy to spell good night. %many ways to spell good night 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 GRASSROOTS First Line: Grass clutches at the dark dirt with finger holds Last Line: Grassroots down under put fingers into dark dirt Subject(s): Middle West 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 HAMMER First Line: I have seen Last Line: Today %I worship the hammer 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 HARVEST First Line: When the corn stands yellow in september Last Line: They are cut down %and piled high %and burned. %their fire %lights the west in november Subject(s): Middle West 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. HAWTHORNE First Line: Nathaniel hawthorne lived under an arch of glooms Last Line: The wind whipping those scarves, of course, %is another meta HAZARDOUS OCCUPATIONS Poem Text First Line: Jugglers keep six bottles in the air Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers HAZARDOUS OCCUPATIONS First Line: Jugglers keep six bottles in the air Subject(s): Labor And Laborers HAZE Poem Text First Line: Keep a red heart of memories Subject(s): Fog; Haze HAZE First Line: Keep a red heart of memories Last Line: The cradles of the sky rock new babies? Subject(s): Fog 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 AND LIGHT First Line: Fritters used to say, 'there is poetry in neckties.' Last Line: Either a wedding or a funeral or a poker party, there is poetry in %neckties HEAVY FOLIO Poem Text First Line: The mathematics of intimate questions Subject(s): Love; Money; Death; Dead, The HELGA First Line: The wishes on this child's mouth HELLCAT First Line: He had arguments about a woman Last Line: Yet his words for her were hellcat %crazy woman 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 HONKY TONK IN CLEVELAND, OHIO First Line: It's a jazz affair, drum crashes and cornet razzes HOOF DUSK First Line: The dusk of this box wood Last Line: And loiter %in the smoke fadeout HORSE NAMED BILL First Line: Oh, I had a horse and his name was bill Last Line: And also I ran with him 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 HOW TO TELL CORN FAIRIES IF YOU SEE 'EM, SELS First Line: ...And spink, who is a little girl living in the same Last Line: While sewing the harvest %moon clothes 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. I SHOULD LIKE TO BE HANGED ON A SUMMER AFTERNOON First Line: I have often thought I should like to be hanged Last Line: Summer afternoon in daylight, the sun shining and bands play 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 BLUE GOWN AND IN BLACK SATIN GOWN First Line: She wore a blue gown for him once Last Line: Sank in a moan of white blossoms %in a falling sheen of black moonlight 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 INDIANA DUSK First Line: The red barns ... In an indiana dusk ... At INTERIOR Poem Text First Line: In the cool of the night time Last Line: And the clocks. INTERWOVEN MAN AND WOMAN TALKED Last Line: How jesus was not ashamed of miracles IRON Poem Text First Line: Guns Last Line: The shovel is brother to the gun. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IS WISDOM A LOT OF LANGUAGE? First Line: Apes, may I speak to you a moment? Last Line: Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. %see whether wisdom is just a lot of language 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 JAZZ FANTASIA First Line: Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos Last Line: Hills...Go to it, o jazzmen Subject(s): Jazz; Language; Music And Musicians 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 JERRY First Line: Six years I worked in a knitting mill at a machine Last Line: Of life, I proclaim I would do it again 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 JUST BEFORE APRIL CAME First Line: The snow-piles in dark places are gone Last Line: I might ask: who are these people? Subject(s): Middle West KILLERS (1) Poem Text First Line: I am singing to you Last Line: Sixteen million men. Subject(s): World War I; First World War KILLERS (2) First Line: I am put high over all others in the city today Last Line: I am the killer who kills today for five million killers who wish a killing 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. LEGAL MIDNIGHT HOUR First Line: Well, the dying time came, the legal midnight hour Last Line: And so now %the dead are dead 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 LI PO AND LAO TSE COME TO NEBRASKA First Line: Make a dialy memo of your eggs Last Line: Reckon on the sagging corn-fed flanks Subject(s): Farm Life; Nebraska; Travel LIARS First Line: A liar goes in fine clothes 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 LINCOLN ON PENNIES, SELS First Line: The face of abraham lincoln on the Last Line: And to whom he belongs LINES WRITTEN FOR GENE KELLY TO DANCE TO First Line: Spring is when the grass turns green and glad Last Line: Such nice feet, such good feet LITTLE CANDLE First Line: Light may be had for nothing LITTLE GIRL, BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY Last Line: Be careful, be careless, be careful, %be what you wish to be 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 LONG GUNS First Line: Then came, oscar, the time of the guns LONG SHADOW OF LINCOLN First Line: Be sad, be cool, be kind Last Line: By the light of the hard old teaching: %'we must disenthrallouselves' Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LOOK AT SIX EGGS Last Line: Look at songs %hidden in eggs 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 LOVE IN LABRADOR First Line: One arch of the sky M'LISS AND LOUIE First Line: When m'liss went away from the old home 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. MAGICAL CONFUSION First Line: There was a lady we all knew Last Line: And the wires clicked it off: 'died of pneumonia.' 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 AND DOG ON AN EARLY WINTER MORNING First Line: There was a tall slough grass Last Line: This is a proud place to come to.' Subject(s): Middle West MAN WITH THE BROKEN FINGERS' Last Line: And death is a quiet step into a sweet clean midnight Subject(s): Freedom 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. MANUAL SYSTEM First Line: Mary has a thingamajig clamped on her ears Last Line: All day taking plugs out and sticking plugs in, %mary has a thingamajig clamped on her ears MANUFACTURED GODS Poem Text First Line: They put up big wooden gods Subject(s): Religion; Theology MANUFACTURED GODS First Line: They put up big wooden gods Subject(s): Religion 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 MAYOR OF GARY First Line: I asked the mayor of gary about the 12-hour day and the 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) MEMORY First Line: Memory is when you look back 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 METAMORPHOSIS First Line: When water turns ice does it remember Last Line: When ice turns back into water does it remember it was ice? Subject(s): Middle West; Science MILK-WHITE MOON, PUT THE COWS TO SLEEP Poem Text MILK-WHITE MOON, PUT THE COWS TO SLEEP Last Line: Put the cows to sleep Subject(s): Animals 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 MIST MOON PEOPLE First Line: The moon is able to command the valley tonight 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 MONDAY, ONE P.M. First Line: Fix it up like an affidavit with a notary's seal: sworn to Last Line: Batting average to dante and keats for what they %wrote about love and roses and the moon MONKEY OF STARS First Line: There was a tree of stars sprang up on a vertical 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 RONDEAU First Line: Love is a door we shall open together.' Last Line: People like us, %us two, %we own the moon.' MOON-RIDERS Poem Text First Line: What have I saved out of a morning? Subject(s): Morning; Jobs; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers MOON-RIDERS First Line: What have I saved out of a morning? MOONSET Poem Text First Line: Leaves of poplars pick japanese prints against the west Last Line: Only dark listening to dark. Subject(s): Moon MOTHER ALPHONSA First Line: Mother alphonsa was named rose Last Line: Yet she chose to work with the completely forsaken 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 MR. ATTILA First Line: They made a myth of you, professor Last Line: I beg your pardon but we believe we have made some degree %of progress on the residual qualities of 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 MYSTERIOUS BIOGRAPHY First Line: Christofo columbo was a hungry man Subject(s): Holidays NAPOLEON First Line: The little boy blew bubbles Last Line: Are broken and vanished and gone 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 FARM TRACTOR First Line: Snub nose, the guts of twenty mules are in your cylinders and transmission Last Line: Now to leather reins and the songs of the old mule skinners 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 NIAGARA First Line: The tumblers of the rapids go white, go green Last Line: The hoo hoi down, %this is niagara 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 NIGHT MOVEMENT - NEW YORK First Line: In the night, when the sea-winds take NIGHT STUFF First Line: Listen a while, the moon is a lovely woman, a lonely NOCTURN CABBAGE Poem Text First Line: Cabbages catch all the moon Subject(s): Cabbage NOCTURN CABBAGE First Line: Cabbages catch at the moon Last Line: Leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are %series of little silver waterfalls in the moon 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 NORTH ATLANTIC First Line: The sea is always the same Last Line: It is neither saturday nor monday, %it is any day or no day,%it is a year, ten years 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 DEEP SING-SONG First Line: In the old deep sing-song of the sea Last Line: Up in the old mama-mama-mama music %up into the whirl of spokes of light OLD FLAGMAN First Line: The old flagman has great-grand-children Last Line: Ruddy as a hard nut, hair in his ears, clear sea lights in his eyes Subject(s): Labor And Laborers 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 OMAHA First Line: Red barns and red heifers spot the green grass 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 A FLIMMERING FLOOM YOU SHALL RIDE First Line: Nobody noogers the shaff of a sloo Last Line: They shall tell you bedish and desist. %on a flimmering floom you shall ride Subject(s): Macleish, Archibald (1892-1982) ON RE-READING EDGAR LEE MASTERS' LINCOLN-THE-MAN THREE YEARS First Line: Have it your way and make yourself satisfied Last Line: Lost on the anxious rumps of the west wind 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 ONE MODERN POET First Line: Having heard the instruction Last Line: Beware of the semblance %of lard at thy flanks Subject(s): Poetry And 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 HELLS First Line: Milton unlocked hell for us 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 OUT OF WHITE LIPS First Line: Out of white lips a question: shall seven million dead ask for their blood Last Line: In the red trenches dug in the land? Subject(s): War PAINTED FISHES Poem Text First Line: Green fishes on a red-lacquered tray Subject(s): Paintings And Painters PAINTED FISHES First Line: Green fishes on a red-lacquered tray Last Line: They are losing their green fins 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 PAPER 1 First Line: Paper is two kinds, to write on, to wrap with Last Line: Some papers like writers, some like wrappers. %are you a writer or a wrapper? PAPER 2 First Line: I write what I know on one side of the paper Last Line: Paper people like to meet other paper people PASSERS-BY Poem Text First Line: Passers-by, / out of your many faces Last Line: When you passed by. PEARL DIVER First Line: They call her a pearl diver...And laugh 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 PEARL HORIZONS First Line: Under a prairie fog moon Last Line: Takes up again its even smooth november Subject(s): Middle West PENCILS Poem Text First Line: Pencils / telling where the wind comes form Subject(s): Pens & Pencils PENCILS Last Line: These eager pencils %come to a stop %...Only...When the stars high over %come to a stop PENCILS First Line: Pencils %telling where the wind comes form Subject(s): Pens And Pencils PEOPLE OF THE EAVES, I WISH YOU GOOD MORNING First Line: The wrens have troubles like us PEOPLE WHO MUST Poem Text First Line: I put my easel on the roof of a skyscraper Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; City & Town Life PEOPLE WITH PROUD CHINS First Line: I tell them where the wind comes from PEOPLE, YES, SELS. Subject(s): Freedom; Religion; Social Protest PEOPLE, YES: 1 First Line: From the four corners of the earth Last Line: Held up by slow friendly winds PEOPLE, YES: 10 First Line: The australian mounted infantryman now teaches Last Line: Don't expect too much.' PEOPLE, YES: 100 First Line: The great sphinx and the pyramids say Last Line: And forgotten hymns sung to their forgotten names -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 101 First Line: The unemployed %without a stake in the country Last Line: Do this or go hungry PEOPLE, YES: 102 First Line: Accordingly, they commenced by an insidious Last Line: Shooting patterns never told of beforehand PEOPLE, YES: 103 First Line: The wind in the corn leaves among the naked stalks Last Line: You do this because you can do nothing else PEOPLE, YES: 104 First Line: When was it long ago the murmurings began Last Line: Where do we go from here -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 105 First Line: Always the storm of propaganda blows Last Line: Moving walking stalking talking unburied dead -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 106 First Line: Sleep is a suspension midway Last Line: Ai! Ai! The sleepers awake -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 107 First Line: The people will live on Last Line: Keeps, the people march: %where to? What next Subject(s): Perseverance PEOPLE, YES: 11 First Line: An englishman in the old days Last Line: In a fine thin smoke, %the people, yes PEOPLE, YES: 12 First Line: The scaffolding holds the arch in place Last Line: The arch is alive, singing, a restless choral PEOPLE, YES: 13 First Line: The oatstraw green turns gold turns ashen and Last Line: These hold affidavits of struggle -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 14 First Line: The people is everyman, everybody Last Line: And will it repay the people for what they pay -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 15 First Line: From the people the countries get their armies Last Line: Begins the strife of peace -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 16 First Line: Hope is a tattered flag and a dream out of time Last Line: And the salvation army singing god loves us -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 17 First Line: The people is a myth, an abstraction.' Last Line: That will do anything you say except %stay hitched? -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 18 First Line: Let the nickels and dimes explain Last Line: Of the main holding company we are fixed our way -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 19 First Line: The people, yes, the people Last Line: And-out, there a game fighter who will die fighting -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 19 First Line: The people, yes, the people Last Line: Fighter who will die fighting PEOPLE, YES: 2 First Line: From illinois and indiana came a later myth Last Line: Grown in the soil of the mass of the people PEOPLE, YES: 20 First Line: Who shall speak for the people Last Line: And stand dumb and silent -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 21 First Line: Who knows the people, the migratory harvest hands and berry Last Line: Who knows this from pit to peak? The people, yes -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 22 First Line: The people is a lighted believer and Last Line: Leave off where man begins -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 23 First Line: The kindest and gentlest here are the Last Line: A rider to the moon (which I am) -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 24 First Line: Who shall speak for the people Last Line: Rainwashed hill of moonlit pines -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 25 First Line: You do what you must -- this world and then the next -- one Last Line: Everyday rituals of the people -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 26 First Line: You can drum on immense drums Last Line: And offer what is on a fresh blank page -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 27 First Line: In the folded and quiet yesterdays Last Line: That I must die for what I said -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 28 First Line: In the days of the cockade and the brass pistol Last Line: Your people, sir, is a great beast.' PEOPLE, YES: 29 First Line: The people, yes Last Line: Out of plain living, early rising and spare belongings PEOPLE, YES: 3 First Line: In the long flat panhandle of texas Last Line: Out here the only windbreak %is the north star PEOPLE, YES: 30 First Line: We'll see what we'll see Last Line: The bringers of faces and bloods PEOPLE, YES: 31 First Line: Your low birth puts you beneath me,' Last Line: Are you guilty or not guilty?' 'I stand mute.' PEOPLE, YES: 32 First Line: What the people learn out of lifting and hauling and waiting and Last Line: Small men never feel small PEOPLE, YES: 33 First Line: Remember the chameleon. He was a well-behaved chameleon and Last Line: Which of these liars are you PEOPLE, YES: 34 First Line: If you can imagine love letters written back and forth between Last Line: Pardon my glove, what were we saying when interrupted?' PEOPLE, YES: 35 First Line: The sea moves always, the wind moves always Last Line: Let down buckets. Here then for you is the center of things PEOPLE, YES: 36 First Line: I am zero, naught, one cipher,' Last Line: We employ it to get more dollars PEOPLE, YES: 37 First Line: So you want to divide all the money there is Last Line: Well, I'll fight you for it.' PEOPLE, YES: 38 First Line: Have you seen men handed refusals Last Line: With strengths out of the earth PEOPLE, YES: 39 First Line: There have been thousands of andy adams Last Line: I'm a wanter and a hoper PEOPLE, YES: 4 First Line: The people know what the land knows Last Line: In the flying hoofs of the homestretch PEOPLE, YES: 40 First Line: We live only once.' Last Line: Into the ears of the people PEOPLE, YES: 41 First Line: Why did the children Last Line: Was pour molasses on the cat Variant Title(s): Childre PEOPLE, YES: 42 First Line: Why repeat? I heard you the first time Last Line: No, but I ain't lost PEOPLE, YES: 43 First Line: When we say fresh eggs we mean fresh Last Line: It is a universe in miniature.' PEOPLE, YES: 44 First Line: Guessing half way and then multiplying by two Last Line: I think about you I'm afraid my heart will strip a gear PEOPLE, YES: 45 First Line: They have yarns %of a skyscraper so tall they had to put hinges Last Line: At him at one time and every one missed him PEOPLE, YES: 46 First Line: The gang in its working clothes Last Line: They were mostly lawyers PEOPLE, YES: 47 First Line: Who made paul bunyan, who gave him birth as a myth, who Last Line: Stove stories told in the north woods PEOPLE, YES: 48 First Line: One of the cherokees in oklahoma, having a million or so from Last Line: Well, parson, I'm not damn happy, just happy, that's all.' PEOPLE, YES: 49 First Line: He was a king or a shah, an ahkoond or rajah Last Line: Be polite but not too polite PEOPLE, YES: 5 First Line: For sixty years the pine lumber barn Last Line: And the wind holds it up on the west PEOPLE, YES: 50 First Line: From what graveyards and sepulchers have they come Last Line: These years, it is almost more than I can do sometimes to keep from telling you so PEOPLE, YES: 51 First Line: The blood of all men of all nations being red Last Line: Almost anything except get off my back' PEOPLE, YES: 52 First Line: Who was that early soldbuster in kansas? He leaned at the gate Last Line: To whom does the grass belong %if not to the people PEOPLE, YES: 53 First Line: Come on, superstition, and get my goat Last Line: The kiss of the black rose PEOPLE, YES: 54 First Line: Tylor believed it important; he put it down; he asks us to read Last Line: Shaded areas denoting who belongs where PEOPLE, YES: 55 First Line: On lang syne plantation they had a prayer Last Line: Who's going to close these dying eyes? %oh angel, oh angel -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 56 First Line: The sacred legion of the justborn Last Line: Five words: this too shall pass away.' PEOPLE, YES: 57 First Line: Lincoln? %he was a mystery in smoke and flags Last Line: What to do, and how to do it PEOPLE, YES: 58 First Line: The people, yes Last Line: Yes, me when they go mad, and as sure as they get sane again, you.' PEOPLE, YES: 59 First Line: The transient tar-paper shack Last Line: The sky might come tumbling down on us -- n, you PEOPLE, YES: 6 First Line: And you take hold of a handle Last Line: In my case,' he added, 'it pays to have a good forgettery.' ep from telling you so PEOPLE, YES: 60 First Line: The grass lives, goes to sleep, lives again Last Line: Live here all of your life?' %'not yit.' -- n, you PEOPLE, YES: 61 First Line: The nickels click off fares in the slot machines of the subway Last Line: Unless you want to put in a sofa for each horse -- n, you PEOPLE, YES: 62 First Line: Without the daily chores of the people Last Line: Who wonder how far it will go and where to block it -- n, you PEOPLE, YES: 63 First Line: In a winter sunset near springfield, illinois Last Line: That's all that holds me back -- n, you PEOPLE, YES: 64 First Line: No matter how thick or how thin you slice it it's still baloney Last Line: Why did death take the poor man's cow and the rich man's child PEOPLE, YES: 65 First Line: The mazuma, the jack, the shekels, the kale Last Line: You -- can -- buy -- anything except day -- and -- night PEOPLE, YES: 66 First Line: The poobahs rise and hold their poobah sway Last Line: Whither goest thou? Whither and whither?' PEOPLE, YES: 67 First Line: Was he preaching or writing poetry or talking through his hat Last Line: If they want to frame on yuh, they will PEOPLE, YES: 68 First Line: The drama of politics doesn't interest me,' said a news rewrite Last Line: I'll take vanilla! Horsefeathers!' PEOPLE, YES: 69 First Line: A lawyer,' hiccuped a disbarred member of the bar, 'is a man Last Line: Less than half a laugh PEOPLE, YES: 7 First Line: Neither wife nor child had mr. Eastman and the manner of his death was Last Line: His lasts testament stands secure against the childishness of second childhood PEOPLE, YES: 70 First Line: The tumblers of the rapids go white, go green Last Line: Will read about it in the morning papers alongside breakfast PEOPLE, YES: 71 First Line: Who was that antique chinese crook who put over his revolution Last Line: More and more of their own PEOPLE, YES: 72 First Line: What is a judge? A judge is a seated torso and head sworn before Last Line: In evidence of his mortal kinship with all other men PEOPLE, YES: 73 First Line: In the light of the cold glimmer of what everybody knows, why Last Line: Pity and the mystery of it PEOPLE, YES: 74 First Line: What other oaths are wanted now Last Line: To travel on its own and see what is beyond those four hills!' PEOPLE, YES: 75 First Line: Hunger and only hunger changes worlds Last Line: The dream of equity will win -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 76 First Line: The records is a scroll of many indecipherable scrawls Last Line: The flowing of the stream clears it of pollution -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 76 First Line: The record is a scroll of many indecipherable scrawls Last Line: The flowing of the stream clears it of pollution -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 77 First Line: The bottom of the sea accommodates mountain ranges Last Line: Holding their fasteners on the trunks -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 78 First Line: What did hiamovi, the red man, chief of Last Line: Silence is the great gratitude when bad music ends.' -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 79 First Line: In paper sacks the customers carry away millions of tons of goods Last Line: Moon as just another pair of mitts PEOPLE, YES: 8 First Line: Mildred klinghofer whirled through youth in bloom Last Line: Yonder and far over yet -- n, you PEOPLE, YES: 80 First Line: Deep in the dusty chattels of the tombs Last Line: Time? I can't stop it but I can measure it.' -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 81 First Line: Chicago seems all fox and swine Last Line: Inscription: -- here no one lies buried -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 82 First Line: I pledge my allegiance Last Line: And cosmetics volume last year was over a billion -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 83 First Line: Who can make a poem of the depths of weariness Last Line: And if so, who PEOPLE, YES: 84 First Line: In the chain store or the independent it is the people meeting Last Line: For a dignity of deepening roots -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 85 First Line: One memorial stone reads Last Line: And grief and laughter: -- where to? -- what next -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 86 First Line: The people, yes, the people Last Line: The hallelujah chorus forever shifting its star soloists Subject(s): Freedom PEOPLE, YES: 87 First Line: The people learn, unlearn, learn Last Line: Will be more of him than we have now -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 88 First Line: The response of wild birds Last Line: And what is worth dying for -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 89 First Line: Marshall field the first was spick and span while alive Last Line: Was born where I couldn't help being born -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 9 First Line: A father sees a son nearing manhood Last Line: He knows as his own PEOPLE, YES: 90 First Line: The big fish east the little fish Last Line: Unless you say eat the hungry belly can't hear you -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 91 First Line: Who were those editors picking the most Last Line: These hands of man -- where to? What's next -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 92 First Line: The breathing of the earth Last Line: Only a fish can do the autobiography of a fish -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 93 First Line: An aster, a farewell-summer flower, stays long in the last fall weeks Last Line: These from all the tongues of name givers, from a restless name changer, the people PEOPLE, YES: 94 First Line: The sea only knows the bottom of the ship Last Line: Who could live without hope -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 95 First Line: Sayings, sentences, what of them Last Line: Next month maybe %next year maybe %the works start -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 96 First Line: Big oil tanks squat next the railroad Last Line: What do you know about that -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 97 First Line: Somebody has to make the tubs and pails Last Line: Slow in its asking: 'where are we now? What time is it?' -- s! PEOPLE, YES: 98 First Line: Hold down the skylines now with your themes Last Line: But it didn't hear us -- s! PERSONALITY Poem Text First Line: You have loved forty women, but you have only one Last Line: Of this. PHIZZOG First Line: This face you got Last Line: No goods exchanged after being taken away'- %this face you got 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 PLACES First Line: Roses and gold 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. PRAYER AFTER WORLD WAR First Line: Wandering oversea dreamer 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 PRIMER LESSON First Line: Look out how you use proud words Last Line: Walk off proud; they can't hear you %calling- %look out how you use proud words Subject(s): Pride PROUD TORSOS First Line: Just before the high time of autumn Last Line: And they will be proud but no longer %with the gathered pride of the days %in the high time 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 RED AND WHITE First Line: Nobody picks a red rose when the winter wind howls and the Last Line: Dreamy drifts winter and summer - roses and snow Subject(s): Middle West REDHAW RAIN First Line: The red rain spatter under the redhaw Last Line: And the sun washes the spear, the arch, %the triangle, over and over 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. REPORTER IN DEBT First Line: The poet who kept himself in debt Last Line: How can I write the people of the pits REWRITE MAN IS TIRED First Line: The body of a woman found dead in a trunk Last Line: Autumn call them quitters squinting at life's chiaroscuro RIVER MOONS First Line: The double moon, one on the high backdrop of the west, one on the Last Line: And white stars moved when the moon moved, and one red star kept burning, %and the big dipper was al RIVER ROADS Poem Text First Line: Let the crows go by hawking their caw and caw Last Line: Shawl on lazy shoulders. ROAN HORSE' First Line: The ran horse is young and will learn: the roan horse buckles into harness Last Line: Has a rusty jag of hair between the ears hanging to a white star %between the eyes Subject(s): Middle West 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 SAND SCRIBBLINGS, SELS. First Line: Boxes on the beach are empty Subject(s): Sea 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 CHEST First Line: There was a woman loved a man Last Line: They made an old sea chest for their belongings %together SEA SLANT First Line: On up the sea slant Last Line: She is a green-lit night gray. %she comes and goes in sea fog. %up the horizon slant she limps SEA-WASH Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The sea-wash never ends Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA-WASH First Line: The sea-wash never ends Last Line: The sea-wash repeats, repeats Subject(s): Sea SELLING SPIEL ON MAXWELL STREET First Line: This blanket is a tough weave, sir Subject(s): Markets; Supermarkets SELLING SPIEL ON MAXWELL STREET First Line: This blanket is a tough weave, sir Last Line: Accidental-looking blood spots took ten years, sir Subject(s): Markets SHADOWS OF APRIL AND BLUE HILLS First Line: Shadows of april and blue hills, smoke of purple gardens and Last Line: Tall, steel door opening into other tall, steel doors %leading to further successions of tall, steel SHE HELD HERSELF A DEEP POOL FOR HIM Last Line: With a mist of sunset ribbons 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 SHERWOOD ANDERSON First Line: To write one book in five years Last Line: Ask this guy, get his number 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. SHIRT (2) First Line: My shirt is a token and symbol Last Line: I can stick around and sing like a little bird %and look 'emall in the eye and never be fazed. %I ca 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 SILVER WIND First Line: Do you know how the dream looms? How if summer SINGING NIGGER Poem Text First Line: Your bony head, jazbo, o dock walloper, Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks SINGING NIGGER First Line: Your bony head, jazbo, o dock walloper SINS OF KALAMAZOO SIX FEET SIX WAS DAVY TIPTON Poem Text SIX FEET SIX WAS DAVY TIPTON Last Line: Big rivers ought to have big men.' Subject(s): Middle West 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. SKETCH OF A POET First Line: He wastes time walking and telling the air, 'I am superior even to the wind.' Last Line: For bed-room, dining-room, sitting-room and how they have no front porch where they %sit publicly an 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 SLABS OF THE SUNBURNT WEST, SELS. First Line: Into the night, into the blanket of night 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 SLEEP FACE First Line: You have a thousand wake faces and you can pick any wake Last Line: Faces, this one is me' SLIPPERY First Line: The six month child Last Line: Give her a nickname: slippery 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 AND STEEL First Line: Smoke of the fields in spring is one Subject(s): Courage; Justice; Steel SMOKE ROSE GOLD Poem Text First Line: The dome of the capitol ooks to the potomac river Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c. SMOKE ROSE GOLD 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 SOUP First Line: I saw a famous man eating soup Last Line: He sat bending his head over a plate %putting soup in his mouth with a spoon Subject(s): United States 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 SPLINTER First Line: The voice of the last cricket Last Line: It is so thin a splinter of singing Subject(s): Animals SPRING First Line: Spring is when the grass turns green and glad Last Line: And bring it to a finish with a period? SPRING CRIES: 1 First Line: Call us back, call us with your sliding silver Last Line: Call us back then, call over, call under-only call- %frogs of the early spring, frogs of the later d SPRING CRIES: 2 First Line: Birds we have seen and known and counted Last Line: Call us back, you too call us SPRING CRIES: 3 First Line: Warble us easy and old ones Last Line: Call us back, spill your one-two-three %of a slur and a cry and a trill SPRING GRASS First Line: Spring grass, there is a dance to be danced for you Last Line: Come up, young feet ask you STARS Poem Text First Line: The stars are too many to count Subject(s): Science; Scientists STARS First Line: The stars are too many to count Last Line: Stars are so far away they never speak when spoken to Subject(s): Science 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 SUMACH AND BIRDS First Line: If you never came with a pigeon rainbow purple SUMMER GRASS Poem Text First Line: Summer grass aches and whispers Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States SUMMER GRASS First Line: Summer grass aches and whispers Last Line: Coming; the rain wets the face of the grass Subject(s): Middle West 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 SUNSETS First Line: There are sunsets who whisper a good-by Last Line: Tosses a little with dreams 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 TAKE A LETTER TO DMITRI SHOSTAKOVITCH First Line: All over america last sunday afternoon goes your symphony no. 7 Last Line: Contribution to the meanings of human freedom and discipline Subject(s): Russia; World War Ii TAKING ON SUDS MEN TALK First Line: Taking on suds men talk. One bottle of near-beer Last Line: Hunting more life -- nothing satisfies me -- what will becom 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. TEN DEFINITIONS OF POETRY First Line: Poetry is a projection across silence 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 THESE VALLEYS SEEM OLD First Line: The first frost comes now and turns the river water still and clear Last Line: And by the famous peach blossom fountain homes of men stand THEY ALL WANT TO PLAY HAMLET Poem Text First Line: Http://www.Youtube.Com/watch?V=undc7h-a7i4 THEY ALL WANT TO PLAY HAMLET Last Line: And they know it is acting to be %particular about it and yet: they all want to play hamlet Subject(s): Shakespeare - Hamlet THEY ASK: IS GOD, TOO, LONELY Poem Text First Line: When god scooped up a handful of dust Subject(s): Friendship THEY ASK: IS GOD, TOO, LONELY 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 PIECES ON THE SMOKE OF AUTUMN First Line: Smoke of autumn is on it all Last Line: Brother of dusk and umber THREE RIDDLES First Line: If you ask your mother for one fried egg for breakfast and she gives you Last Line: How many apples are there in the blue wheelbarrow? 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 TIMBER MOON First Line: There is a way the moon looks into the timber at night Last Line: There is a way the moon finds company early in the fall-time Subject(s): Middle West TIMESWEEP Poem Text First Line: I was born in the morning of the world Subject(s): Animals; Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation TIMESWEEP First Line: There is only one horse on the earth Last Line: And his children cover the earth %and they are named all god's children Subject(s): Animals; Environment 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) TO THE GHOST OF JOHN MILTON First Line: If I should pamphleteer twenty years against royalists Last Line: And god himself and the rebels god threw into hell Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) TO WEBSTER FORD First Line: A man wrote two books Last Line: And the strangeness of dreams that haunt their graves 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 TROTH TRYST First Line: There is a troth between us Last Line: Bitter with fish, drowsy with dream blossoms TROTHS Poem Text First Line: Yellow dust on a bumble Last Line: On some I keep. TRY BEING A GOAT First Line: Try being a goat: put on a face of calm contemplations Last Line: Then turn away toward other horizons chewing your cud TWO Poem Text First Line: Memory of you is - a blue spear of flower Last Line: And they cover you. Subject(s): Flowers TWO HUMPTIES First Line: They tried to hand it to us on a platter Last Line: Good-a-by, our hats and all of us say good-a-by TWO MOON FANTASIES First Line: The moon is a bucket of suds Last Line: Thus an apparition related the matter. %to him the disc meant print and printers 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 USELESS WORDS First Line: So long as we speak the same language and never understand each other Last Line: And cluth each other with the irreckonable glutturals, well VALLEY SONG Poem Text First Line: Your eyes and the valley are memories Last Line: All three are gone -- and I keep all three. VAUDEVILLE: 1916 First Line: I watch vaudeville. Two swiss women whose bodies are Last Line: Crown prince and joffre over their breakfasts ask how %the weather looks for new troop movements 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 VIRGINIA WOOLF First Line: Virginia woolf left her home in england, near the sea Last Line: She represented things money cannot buy nor children be taug 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 WALL SHADOWS 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 WAS EVER A DREAM A DRUM? Last Line: Now the moon tonight over indiana %is a fire-drum of a phantom dreamer 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: 1 First Line: If we meet a gorilla Last Line: Where you came from Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Etiquette WE MUST BE POLITE: 2 Poem Text First Line: If an elephant knocks on your door Subject(s): Elephants; Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy WE MUST BE POLITE: 2 First Line: If an elephant knocks on your door Last Line: Of potatoes - will that be enough for %your breakfast, sir Subject(s): Elephants; Etiquette 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 WHIFFS OF THE OHIO RIVER AT CINCINNATI First Line: A young thing in spring green slippers, stockings, silk vivd as lilac-time gras Last Line: It la belle riviere meaning a woman easy to look at Subject(s): Cincinnati, Ohio; Ohio River WHITE SHOULDERS Poem Text First Line: Your white shoulders Last Line: From your white shoulders. WHITE WINGS First Line: Sitting against a big friendly tree Last Line: Flashing white wings in the may sun 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 WIND HORSES First Line: Roots, go deep: wrap your coils, fasten your knots Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening WIND SONG First Line: Long ago I learned how to sleep 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 WINDY CITY, SELS. First Line: Winds of the windy city, come out of the prairie WINGTIP First Line: The birds-are they worth remembering? Last Line: When will man know what birds know? WINTER GOLD First Line: The same gold of summer was on the winter hills WINTER WEATHER First Line: It is cold WORK GANGS Poem Text First Line: Box cars run a mile long Subject(s): Americans; Justice; Labor & Laborers; United States; Work; Workers; America WORK GANGS First Line: Box cars run a mile long Last Line: There is no song mouth; these are my people Subject(s): Americans; Justice; Labor And Laborers; United States 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 WORKINGMEN First Line: In the dusk of the dawn they go Last Line: Setting a dull-rumbling hum up the streets of the city WRITINGS LEFT BY A GUITAR PLAYER WHO WISHED TO LIVE First Line: Child of the rich red mouth 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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