Poems by Carl Sandburg
Portrait
... Can a man sit at a desk in a skyscraper in Chicago ...
Portrait of a Motor Car
... Danny the driver dreams of it when he sees women in red skirts and red sox in his sleep ...
Potato Blossom Songs and Jigs
... el pocket over the left side of the shirt, over the ventricles of blood, over the pumps of the heart ...
Potomac River Mist
... en I saw it again and alone at a winters end, the marble in the mist white as a blond womans arm ...
Potomac Town in February
... A sliver of moon slides by on a high wind calling: I know why ...
Prairie
... ker after nothing so much as one more sunrise or a sky moon of fire doubled to a river moon of water ...
Prairie Waters by Night
... ning a litany of running watersheer waters showing the russet of old stones remembering many rains ...
Prayers After World War
... Hunting and hoarse, Oh daughter and mother, ...
Proud and Beautiful
... g you as a great enigmatic bird of paradise and they must all declare you to be proud and beautiful, ...
Purple Martins
... Go on tumbling half over at the horse heads of the sun ...
Put Off the Wedding Five Times and Nobody Comes to It
... arn dance one winter night in Illinois saying: Put off the wedding five times and nobody comes to it ...
Questionnaire
... ving and the unborn while I made speeches on the retributions that shadow the heels of the dishonest ...
Real Estate News
... he ring of shovels handling scrap iron replaces the banging of pianos and the bawling songs of pimps ...
Remembered Women
... rainfor the women they hate and the women they lovefor the women they left behind, they fight on ...
Remorse
... Only slam me across the ears sometimes and hunt for a white star ...
