Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Shirt
My shirt is a token and symbol,more than a cover for sun and rain,my shirt is a signal,and a teller of souls.I can take off my shirt and tear it,and..
© Carl Sandburg
Shenandoah
IN the Shenandoah Valley, one rider gray and one rider blue, and the sun on theriders wondering.Piled in the Shenandoah, riders blue and riders gray..
© Carl Sandburg
Sheep
Thousands of sheep, soft-footed, black-nosed sheep--one by one going up the hill and over the fence--one byone four-footed pattering up and over--one..
© Carl Sandburg
Shagbark Hickory
IN the moonlight under a shag-bark hickory treeWatching the yellow shadows melt in hoof-pools,Listening to the yes and the no of a woman's hands,I..
© Carl Sandburg
Sea-Wash
The sea-wash never ends.The sea-wash repeats, repeats.Only old songs? Is that all the sea knows?Only the old strong songs?Is that all?The sea-wash..
© Carl Sandburg
Sea Slant
On up the sea slant,On up the horizon,The ship limps.The bone of her nose fog-gray,The heart of her sea-strong,She came a long way,She goes a long..
© Carl Sandburg
Savoir Faire
CAST a bronze of my head and legs and put them on the king's street.Set the cast of me here alongside Carl XII, making two Carls for the..
© Carl Sandburg
Sandpipers
Sandland where the salt water kills the sweet potatoes.Homes for sandpipers—the script of their feet is on the sea shingles—they writein the morning..
© Carl Sandburg
Sandhill People
I TOOK away three pictures.One was a white gull forming a half-mile arch from the pines toward Waukegan.One was a whistle in the little sandhills, a..
© Carl Sandburg
Sand Scribblings
THE WIND stops, the wind begins.The wind says stop, begin.A sea shovel scrapes the sand floor.The shovel changes, the floor changes.The sandpipers..
© Carl Sandburg
Salvage
Guns on the battle lines have pounded now a yearbetween Brussels and Paris.And, William Morris, when I read your old chapter onthe great arches and..
© Carl Sandburg
Rusty Crimson
(Chirstmas Day, 1917)THE FIVE O'CLOCK prairie sunset is a strong man going tosleep after a long day in a cornfield.The red dust of a rusty crimson is..
© Carl Sandburg
River Roads
Let the crows go by hawking their caw and caw.They have been swimming in midnights of coal mines somewhere.Let 'em hawk their caw and caw.Let the..
© Carl Sandburg
River Moons
THE DOUBLE moon, one on the high back drop of the west, one on the curve ofthe river face,The sky moon of fire and the river moon of water, I am..
© Carl Sandburg
Repetitions
THEY are crying salt tearsOver the beautiful beloved bodyOf Inez Milholland,Because they are glad she lived,Because she loved open-armed,Throwing..
© Carl Sandburg
Remorse
THE HORSE'S name was Remorse.There were people said, 'Gee, what a nag!'And they were Edgar Allan Poe bugs and soThey called him Remorse.When he was a..
© Carl Sandburg
Remembered Women
FOR a woman's face remembered as a spot of quick light on the flat land of darknight,For this memory of one mouth and a forehead they go on in the..
© Carl Sandburg
Red-Headed Restaurant Cashier
SHAKE back your hair, O red-headed girl.Let go your laughter and keep your two proud freckles on your chin.Somewhere is a man looking for a..
© Carl Sandburg
Real Estate News
ARMOUR AVENUE was the name of this street and door signs on empty housesread 'The Silver Dollar,' 'Swede Annie' and the Christian names of madams..
© Carl Sandburg
Ready To Kill
Ten minutes now I have been looking at this.I have gone by here before and wondered about it.This is a bronze memorial of a famous generalRiding..
© Carl Sandburg
Questionnaire
HAVE I told any man to be a liar for my sake?Have I sold ice to the poor in summer and coal to the poor in winter for the sakeof daughters who nursed..
© Carl Sandburg
Put Off The Wedding Five Times And Nobody Comes To It
(Handbook for Quarreling Lovers)I THOUGHT of offering you apothegms.I might have said, 'Dogs bark and the wind carries it away.'I might have said..
© Carl Sandburg
Purple Martins
IF we were such and so, the same as these,maybe we too would be slingers and sliders,tumbling half over in the water mirrors,tumbling half over at..
© Carl Sandburg
Proud And Beautiful
AFTER you have spent all the money modistes and manicures and mannikins willtake for fixing you over into a thing the people on the streets call..
© Carl Sandburg
Primer Lesson
Look out how you use proud words.When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud;..
© Carl Sandburg