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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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North Atlantic

... I have been left alone with the sea and the sea’s wife, the wind, for my last friends ...

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Old Osawatomie

... Room for Gettysburg, Wilderness, Chickamauga, ...

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Old Timers

... I trimmed the feet of a white horse Bonaparte swept the night stars with ...

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Old Woman

... Only an old woman, bloated, disheveled and bleared ...

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Old-fashioned Requited Love

... Or—the iceman with his iron tongs gripping a clear cube in summer sunlight—maybe he will know ...

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Omaha

... Nebraska across the yellow, big-hoofed Missouri River ...

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On The Breakwater

... green, And two on the breakwater keep their silence, she on his ...

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On the Way

... restless surge Of the lake waves on the breakwater breaks with an ever ...

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Ossawatomie

... s, my people are young and strong, my people must learn, my people are terrible workers and fighters ...

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Out of White Lips

... d of a free man on a piece of land his own or is it the red of a sheep slit in the throat for mutton ...

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Palladiums

... IN the newspaper office—who are the spooks ...

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Pals

... And the dead hold under their tongues ...

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Panels

... w long ago the knee drifts here and a blizzard howling at the knot holes, whistling winter war drums ...

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Passers-By

... Passers-by, I remember lean ones among you, ...

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Paula

... Your shoulder brushes my arm—a south-west wind crosses the pier ...