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").

And This Will Be All....

And this will be all?And the gates will never open again?And the dust and the wind will play around the rusty door hinges and the songsof October..

© Carl Sandburg

And They Obey

Smash down the cities.Knock the walls to pieces.Break the factories and cathedrals, warehousesand homesInto loose piles of stone and lumber and..

© Carl Sandburg

And So To-Day

And so to-day- they lay him away-the boy nobody knows the name of-the buck private- the unknown soldier-the doughboy who dug under and diedwhen they..

© Carl Sandburg

An Electric Sign Goes Dark

Poland, France, Judea ran in her veins,Singing to Paris for bread, singing to Gotham in a fizz at the pop of a bottle’scork.“Won’t you come and play..

© Carl Sandburg

Among The Red Guns

Among the red guns,In the hearts of soldiersRunning free bloodIn the long, long campaign:Dreams go on.Among the leather saddles,In the heads of..

© Carl Sandburg

Always The Mob

Jesus emptied the devils of one man into forty hogs and the hogs took the edgeof a high rock and dropped off and down into the sea: a mob.The sheep..

© Carl Sandburg

Alley Rats

They were calling certain styles of whiskers by the name of “lilacs.”And another manner of beard assumed in their chatter a verbal guiseOf “mutton..

© Carl Sandburg

All Day Long

All day long in fog and wind,The waves have flung their beating crestsAgainst the palisades of adamant.My boy, he went to sea, long and long..

© Carl Sandburg

Alix

The mare Alix breaks the world’s trotting record one day. I see her heels flashdown the dust of an Illinois race track on a summer afternoon. I see..

© Carl Sandburg

Adelaide Crapsey

Among the bumble-bees in red-top hay, a freckled field of brown-eyed Susansdripping yellow leaves in July,I read your heart in a book.And your mouth..

© Carl Sandburg

Accomplished Facts

Every year Emily Dickinson sent one friendthe first arbutus bud in her garden.In a last will and testament Andrew Jacksonremembered a friend with the..

© Carl Sandburg

A.E.F.

There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart,The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust.A spider will make a silver string nest in..

© Carl Sandburg

A Teamster's Farewell

Sobs En Route to a PenitentiaryGood-by now to the streets and the clash of wheels andlocking hubs,The sun coming on the brass buckles and harness..

© Carl Sandburg

A Tall Man

The mouth of this man is a gaunt strong mouth.The head of this man is a gaunt strong head.The jaws of this man are bone of the Rocky Mountains, the..

© Carl Sandburg

A Sphinx

Close-mouthed you sat five thousand years and never let out a whisper.Processions came by, marchers, asking questions you answered with grey..

© Carl Sandburg

A Million Young Work Men

A million young workmen straight and strong lay stiff on the grass and roads,And the million are now under soil and their rottening flesh will in the..

© Carl Sandburg

A Fence

Now the stone house on the lake front is finished and theworkmen are beginning the fence.The palings are made of iron bars with steel points thatcan..

© Carl Sandburg

A Father To His Son

A father sees his son nearing manhood.What shall he tell that son?'Life is hard; be steel; be a rock.'And this might stand him for the stormsand..

© Carl Sandburg

A Coin

Your western heads here cast on money,You are the two that fade away together,Partners in the mist.Lunging buffalo shoulder,Lean Indian face,We who..

© Carl Sandburg

Why East Wind Chills

Why east wind chills and south wind coolsShall not be known till windwell driesAnd west's no longer drownedIn winds that bring the fruit and rindOf..

© Dylan Thomas

If My Head Hurt A Hair's Foot

'If my head hurt a hair's footPack back the downed bone. If the unpricked ball of my breathBump on a spout let the bubbles jump out.Sooner drop with..

© Dylan Thomas

Shall Gods Be Said To Thump The Clouds

Shall gods be said to thump the cloudsWhen clouds are cursed by thunder,Be said to weep when weather howls?Shall rainbows be their tunics'..

© Dylan Thomas

I Make This In A Warring Absence

I make this in a warring absence whenEach ancient, stone-necked minute of love's seasonHarbours my anchored tongue, slips the quaystone,When, praise..

© Dylan Thomas

Unluckily For A Death

Unluckily for a deathWaiting with phoenix underThe pyre yet to be lighted of my sins and days,And for the woman in shadesSaint carved and sensual..

© Dylan Thomas

Find Meat On Bones

'Find meat on bones that soon have none,And drink in the two milked crags,The merriest marrow and the dregsBefore the ladies' breasts are hagsAnd the..

© Dylan Thomas