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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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Bricklayer Love

... illing myself because I am only a bricklayer and you a woman who loves the man who runs a drug store ...

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Buckwheat

... t, and it fluttered a hummingbird wing, a blur in the honey-red clover, in the honey-white buckwheat ...

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Buttons

... inch west.(Ten thousand men and boys twist on their bodies in ...

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Child Moon

... With babblings of the moon on her little mouth ...

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Child of the Romans

... And goes back to the second half of a ten-hour day's work ...

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Cups of Coffee

... coffee. The woman who took men as snakes take rabbits, a rag and a bone and a hank of ...

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Dream Girl

... The purr of the breeze in your murmuring speech, ...

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Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio

... A quartet of white hopes mourn with interspersed snickers: ...

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Humdrum

... I wouldn’t want the same name every time ...

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Humming Bird Woman

... Why do I wonder how you would look in humming-bird feathers ...

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Iron

... Sitting on the guns singing war songs, war chanties ...

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Mill-Doors

... I say good-by because I know they tap your wrists, ...

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Our Prayer of Thanks

... God, The game is all your way, the secrets and the signals and ...

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Psalm of Those Who Go Forth Before Daylight

... they ask their wives to fix burnt holes in the knees of their trousers ...

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Soup

... And thousands of people were talking about him ...