Archives for Sandburg, Carl
Upstream by Carl Sandburg

Upstream by Carl Sandburg

Published On Wednesday, January 05, 2011. Under: 1900s, Sandburg, Carl.
Upstream by Carl Sandburg The strong men keep coming on. They go down shot, hanged, sick, broken. They live on, fighting, singing, lucky as plungers. The strong men ... they keep coming on. The strong mothers pulling them from a dark sea, a great prairie, a long mountain. Call hallelujah, call ...
California City Landscape by Carl Sandburg

California City Landscape by Carl Sandburg

Published On Monday, June 21, 2010. Under: 1900s, Sandburg, Carl.
California City Landscape by Carl Sandburg On a mountain-side the real estate agents Put up signs marking the city lots to be sold there. A man whose father and mother were Irish Ran a goat farm half-way down the mountain; He drove a covered wagon years ago, Understood how to handle a ...
WINDFLOWER LEAF by Carl Sandburg

WINDFLOWER LEAF by Carl Sandburg

Published On Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Under: 1900s, Sandburg, Carl.
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) WINDFLOWER LEAF by Carl Sandburg This flower is repeated out of old winds, out of old times. The wind repeats these, it must have these, over and over again. Oh, windflowers so fresh, Oh, beautiful leaves, here now again. The domes over fall to pieces. The stones under fall to pieces. Rain and ice wreck the works. The wind ...

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