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  • HOG Butcher for the World,
    Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
    44 lines, 4 comments
  • TEN minutes now I have been looking at this.
    I have gone by here before and wondered about it.
    26 lines, 1 comment
  • I HEARD a woman's lips
    Speaking to a companion
    15 lines, 1 comment
  • I AM the people — the mob—the crowd—the mass.
    Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • OF my city the worst that men will ever say is this:
    You took little children away from the sun and the dew,
    7 lines, 1 comment
  • JACK was a swarthy, swaggering son-of-a-gun.
    He worked thirty years on the railroad, ten hours a day,
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • I
    THE bronze General Grant riding a bronze horse in Linc-
    27 lines, 1 comment
  • THE fog comes
    on little cat feet.
    6 lines, 5 comments
  • THE single clenched fist lifted and ready,
    Or the open asking hand held out and waiting.
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • I spot the hills
    With yellow balls in autumn.
    14 lines, 3 comments
  • THE Government--I heard about the Government and
    I went out to find it. I said I would look closely at
    29 lines, 1 comment
  • THERE are no handles upon a language
    Whereby men take hold of it
    23 lines, 1 comment
  • I am singing to you
    Soft as a man with a dead child speaks;
    26 lines, 3 comments
  • Smash down the cities.
    Knock the walls to pieces.
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Among the red guns,
    In the hearts of soldiers
    23 lines, 1 comment
  • Guns,
    Long, steel guns,
    17 lines, 1 comment
  • Red drips from my chin where I have been eating.
    Not all the blood, nowhere near all, is wiped off my mouth.
    12 lines, 2 comments
  • [They picked him up in the grass where he had lain two
        days in the rain with a piece of shrapnel in his lungs.]
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • You will come one day in a waver of love,
    Tender as dew, impetuous as rain,
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • I wrote a poem on the mist
    And a woman asked me what I meant by it.
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Hot gold runs a winding stream on the inside of a green bowl.
    Yellow trickles in a fan figure, scatters a line of skirmishes, spreads a chorus
    6 lines, 1 comment
  • I asked a gypsy pal
    To imitate an old image
    11 lines, 1 comment
  • I am the mist, the impalpable mist,
    Back of the thing you seek.
    17 lines, 1 comment
  • A lone gray bird,
    Dim-dipping, far-flying,
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • Between two hills
    The old town stands.
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Paula is digging and shaping the loam of a salvia,
    Scarlet Chinese talker of summer.
    5 lines, 1 comment
  • I sang to you and the moon
    But only the moon remembers.
    7 lines, 1 comment
  • Let a joy keep you.
    Reach out your hands
    15 lines, 1 comment
  • The monotone of the rain is beautiful,
    And the sudden rise and slow relapse
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • Give me hunger,
    O you gods that sit and give
    19 lines, 1 comment
  • I have love
    And a child,
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • Sand of the sea runs red
    Where the sunset reaches and quivers.
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • To the Williamson Brothers
    22 lines, 1 comment
  • I drank musty ale at the Illinois Athletic Club with
    the millionaire manufacturer of Green River butter
    40 lines, 1 comment
  • I am riding on a limited express, one of the crack trains
    of the nation.
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • Storms have beaten on this point of land
    And ships gone to wreck here
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • Cross the hands over the breast here--so.
    Straighten the legs a little more--so.
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • Now the stone house on the lake front is finished and the
    workmen are beginning the fence.
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • Mrs. Gabrielle Giovannitti comes along Peoria Street
    every morning at nine o'clock
    44 lines, 1 comment
  • I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell
    me what is happiness.
    11 lines, 1 comment
  • Sobs En Route to a Penitentiary
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • Dust of the feet
    And dust of the wheels,
    19 lines, 1 comment
  • Passing through huddled and ugly walls
    By doorways where women
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • Desolate and lone
    All night long on the lake
    9 lines, 2 comments
  • Your western heads here cast on money,
    You are the two that fade away together,
    13 lines, 5 comments
  • Close-mouthed you sat five thousand years and never
        let out a whisper.
    9 lines, 6 comments
  • All day long in fog and wind,
    The waves have flung their beating crests
    11 lines, 1 comment
  • You came from the Aztecs
    With a copper on your fore-arms
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • I wanted a man's face looking into the jaws and throat
        of life
    20 lines
  • Shine on, O moon of summer.
    Shine to the leaves of grass, catalpa and oak,
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • A man saw the whole world as a grinning skull and
    cross-bones. The rose flesh of life shriveled from all
    14 lines, 4 comments
  • Why shall I keep the old name?
    What is a name anywhere anyway?
    7 lines, 2 comments
  • Sling me under the sea.
    Pack me down in the salt and wet.
    10 lines, 2 comments
  • I shall never forget you, Broadway
    Your golden and calling lights.
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • I have been watching the war map slammed up for
    advertising in front of the newspaper office.
    17 lines, 2 comments
  • There's Chamfort. He's a sample.
    Locked himself in his library with a gun,
    15 lines, 1 comment
  • The young child, Christ, is straight and wise
    And asks questions of the old men, questions
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • The child's wonder
    At the old moon
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • The dago shovelman sits by the railroad track
    Eating a noon meal of bread and bologna.
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • They offer you many things,
    I a few.
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Crimson is the slow smolder of the cigar end I hold,
    Gray is the ash that stiffens and covers all silent the fire.
    5 lines, 1 comment
  • Once when I saw a cripple
    Gasping slowly his last days with the white plague,
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • Strolling along
    By the teeming docks,
    19 lines, 2 comments
  • Dreams in the dusk,
    Only dreams closing the day
    11 lines, 1 comment
  • What do we see here in the sand dunes of the white
    moon alone with our thoughts, Bill,
    15 lines, 2 comments
  • I sat with a dynamiter at supper in a German saloon
    eating steak and onions.
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • I Know a Jew fish crier down on Maxwell Street with a
    voice like a north wind blowing over corn stubble
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • Shaken,
    The blossoms of lilac,
    16 lines, 2 comments
  • Everybody loved Chick Lorimer in our town.
    Far off
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • Tomb of a millionaire,
    A multi-millionaire, ladies and gentlemen,
    23 lines, 1 comment
  • I dreamed one man stood against a thousand,
    One man damned as a wrongheaded fool.
    15 lines, 1 comment
  • Come you, cartoonists,
    Hang on a strap with me here
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • Dragoons, I tell you the white hydrangeas
    turn rust and go soon.
    8 lines, 2 comments
  • I know an ice handler who wears a flannel shirt with
    pearl buttons the size of a dollar,
    19 lines, 1 comment
  • Remembrance for a great man is this.
    The newsies are pitching pennies.
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • Women of night life amid the lights
    Where the line of your full, round throats
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • Your bow swept over a string, and a long low note
    quivered to the air.
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • Seven nations stood with their hands on the jaws of death.
    It was the first week in August, Nineteen Hundred Fourteen.
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • In western fields of corn and northern timber lands,
    They talk about me, a saloon with a soul,
    7 lines, 1 comment
  • Brother, I am fire
    Surging under the ocean floor.
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • EMILY DICKINSON:
    You gave us the bumble bee who has a soul,
    11 lines, 1 comment
  • I wish to God I never saw you, Mag.
    I wish you never quit your job and came along with me.
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Mamie beat her head against the bars of a little Indiana
    town and dreamed of romance and big things off
    26 lines, 1 comment
  • Many birds and the beating of wings
    Make a flinging reckless hum
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • Fling your red scarf faster and faster, dancer.
    It is summer and the sun loves a million green leaves,
    11 lines, 1 comment
  • Among the mountains I wandered and saw blue haze and
    red crag and was amazed;
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • You never come back.
    I say good-by when I see you going in the doors,
    10 lines, 2 comments
  • Momus is the name men give your face,
    The brag of its tone, like a long low steamboat whistle
    30 lines, 1 comment
  • Twenty men stand watching the muckers.
    Stabbing the sides of the ditch
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • I am the nigger.
    Singer of songs,
    21 lines, 1 comment
  • Stuff of the moon
    Runs on the lapping sand
    7 lines, 1 comment
  • The owl-car clatters along, dogged by the echo
    From building and battered paving-stone.
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • On the breakwater in the summer dark, a man and a
    girl are sitting,
    11 lines, 2 comments
  • Little one, you have been buzzing in the books,
    Flittering in the newspapers and drinking beer with
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • For the gladness here where the sun is shining at
    evening on the weeds at the river,
    21 lines, 1 comment
  • You have spoken the answer.
    A child searches far sometimes
    28 lines, 1 comment
  • I cannot tell you now;
    When the wind's drive and whirl
    0 lines, 2 comments
  • A stone face higher than six horses stood five thousand
    years gazing at the world seeming to clutch a secret.
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • I am glad God saw Death
    And gave Death a job taking care of all who are tired
    0 lines, 1 comment
  • She sits in the dust at the walls
    And makes cigars,
    15 lines, 6 comments
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