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Born in January 6, 1878 / Died in July 22, 1967 / United States / English

Poems by Carl Sandburg

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Home Thoughts

... now hours empty as a beggar’s tin cup on a rainy day, empty as a soldier’s sleeve with an arm lost ...

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Jan Kubelik

... and wild. (All the girls in Bohemia are laughing on a Sunday afternoon ...

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Kreisler

... Sell me a fiddle that has kissed dark nights on the forehead where men kiss sisters they love ...

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Laughing Blue Steel

... Beaten, hammered, laughing blue steel to each other—maybe ...

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Letter S

... Knows what the sunset is pouring on the river here ...

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Long Guns

... And there was no land for a man, no land for a country, ...

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Mag

... each other Always and always long as the sun and the rain lasts anywhere ...

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Monotone

... The sun on the hills is beautiful, ...

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Nights Nothings Again

... at money can never buy: all other lovers change: all others go away and come back and go away again: ...

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Onion Days

... and molasses. I listen to fellows saying here's good stuff for a novel or ...

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Picnic Boat

... Running along the deck railings are festoons and leaping ...

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Pods

... And Neponset trembles slightly in its sleep ...

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Prayers of Steel

... Let me be the great nail holding a skyscraper through blue nights into white stars ...

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Red-headed Restaurant Cashier

... girl and some day maybe he will look into your eyes for a restaurant cashier and find a lover, maybe ...

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Salvage

... Guns on the battle lines have pounded a year now between ...