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| 941. | Crimson Changes People by Carl Sandburg | | DID I see a crucifix in your eyes
and nails and Roman soldiers
and a dusk Golgotha?
Did I see Mary, the changed woman,
washing the feet of all... |
| 942. | Cripple by Carl Sandburg | | ONCE when I saw a cripple
Gasping slowly his last days with the white plague,
Looking from hollow eyes, calling for air,
Desperately gesturing with... |
| 944. | Fog Portrait by Carl Sandburg | | RINGS of iron gray smoke; a woman’s steel face … looking … looking.
Funnels of an ocean liner negotiating a fog night; pouring a taffy mass dow... |
| 945. | Gypsy by Carl Sandburg | | I ASKED a gypsy pal
To imitate an old image
And speak old wisdom.
She drew in her chin,
Made her neck and head
The top piece of a Nile obelisk
a... |
| 946. | High Conspiratorial Person by Carl Sandburg | | OUT of the testimony of such reluctant lips, out of the oaths and mouths of such scrupulous liars, out of perjurers whose hands swore by God to the wh... |
| 947. | In the Shadow of the Palace by Carl Sandburg | | LET us go out of the fog, John, out of the filmy persistent drizzle on the streets of Stockholm, let us put down the collars of our raincoats, take of... |
| 948. | Just Before April Came by Carl Sandburg | | THE SNOW piles in dark places are gone.
Pools by the railroad tracks shine clear.
The gravel of all shallow places shines.
A white pigeon reels and... |
| 949. | Memoir of a Proud Boy by Carl Sandburg | | HE lived on the wings of storm.
The ashes are in Chihuahua.
Out of Ludlow and coal towns in Colorado
Sprang a vengeance of Slav miners, Italians... |
| 950. | Murmurings in a field hospital by Carl Sandburg | | [They picked him up in the grass where he had lain two
days in the rain with a piece of shrapnel in his lungs.]
COME to me only with playthings no... |
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