Potential Titles: Carl Sandburg

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Searches far sometimes into the red dust - Carl Sandburg "The Answer"

In the republic of the winking stars and spent cataclysms - Carl Sandburg "The Answer"

Crawl into a dusk of velvet - Carl Sandburg "The Answer"

People so near nothing - Carl Sandburg "Anywhere and Everywhere People"

Everywhere without being seen - Carl Sandburg "Anywhere and Everywhere People"

Your shabbiest, weariest hunger - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"

Leave me a little love - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"

Breaking the long loneliness - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"

The changing shores of shadow - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"

That sit and give the world its orders - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"

Thrust out from the changing shores of shadow - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"

Goes down to eat ashes - Carl Sandburg "At the Gates of Tombs"

At the gates of tombs silence is a gift - Carl Sandburg "At the Gates of Tombs"

Lost among the used-up cinders - Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask"

Laid on bones taken from the ribs of the earth - Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask"

Ready for the hammers of changing - Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask"

Ready for the dust and fire and wind - Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask"

A cry out of storm and dark - Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask"

A red yell and a purple prayer - Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask"

A smut on every human blossom - Carl Sandburg "Billy Sunday"

A bughouse peddler of second-hand gospel - Carl Sandburg "Billy Sunday"

So many stars and so few hours to dream - Carl Sandburg "Black Horizons"

A name is a cheap thing - Carl Sandburg "Blacklisted"

No Hamlet hold my jaws and speak - Carl Sandburg "Bones"

Down on the floors of salt and wet - Carl Sandburg "Bones"

In dusk and dust and dreams - Carl Sandburg "Bringers"

Into the hooves and guns of the storm - Carl Sandburg "Bronzes"

Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil - Carl Sandburg "Chicago"

Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth - Carl Sandburg "Chicago"

Under the terrible burden of destiny - Carl Sandburg "Chicago"

The cut glass vases standing slender - Carl Sandburg "Child of the Romans"

The play of fountains at night - Carl Sandburg "Choices"

Water sparkling a drowsy monotone - Carl Sandburg "Choices"

A remembering of regrets - Carl Sandburg "Choices"

Go by and come back - Carl Sandburg "Clouds"

Partners in the mist - Carl Sandburg "A Coin"

The two that fade away together - Carl Sandburg "A Coin"

Stronger than all proud men - Carl Sandburg "Death Snips Proud Men"

Here is dust remembers it was a rose - Carl Sandburg "Dust"

Listen for what comes - Carl Sandburg "Ears"

When the mazy stars neither point nor beckon - Carl Sandburg "Experience"

Open when you wake - Carl Sandburg "Eyes"

Out of the sea a song - Carl Sandburg "Far Rockaway Night Till Morn"

Mix the high howls of your dancing - Carl Sandburg "Fins"

Shoot your laugh of rainbow foam - Carl Sandburg "Fins"

Rust and gold on the roofs of the sea - Carl Sandburg "Fins"

All broken hearts, empty hands, sleeping soldiers - Carl Sandburg "Fire Dreams"

And down in a garden old with years - Carl Sandburg "Follies"

Broken walls of ruin and story - Carl Sandburg "Follies"

Roses rise with red rain-memories - Carl Sandburg "Follies"

Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth - Carl Sandburg "Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind"

The doors are twisted on broken hinges - Carl Sandburg "Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind"

Slippery frozen places of the earth - Carl Sandburg "Four Steichen Prints"

Threw you into a pot of thorns - Carl Sandburg "Four Steichen Prints"

Rippled and twisted in sliding rising scales - Carl Sandburg "Four Steichen Prints"

Fifty with aching hearts - Carl Sandburg "Gone"

Over the graves of the thousand - Carl Sandburg "Graves"

Your great way of forgetting - Carl Sandburg "Graves"

Today I worship the hammer - Carl Sandburg "The Hammer"

Fought in the dust for a song - Carl Sandburg "Hits and Runs"

The way the wind measures the weather - Carl Sandburg "How Much?"

A few red drops for history to remember - Carl Sandburg "I Am the People, the Mob"

The audience that witnesses history - Carl Sandburg "I am the People, the Mob"

Spatter a few red drops for history to remember - Carl Sandburg "I am the People, the Mob"

Use the lessons of yesterday - Carl Sandburg "I am the People, the Mob"

And no longer forget who robbed me last year - Carl Sandburg "I am the People, the Mob"

But only the moon remembers - Carl Sandburg "I Sang"

Catching play of sun-fire - Carl Sandburg "In a Breath"

Singing arch of my skull - Carl Sandburg "In Tall Grass"

The drone of dreams of honey - Carl Sandburg "In Tall Grass"

The shovel is brother to the gun - Carl Sandburg "Iron"

With their hands on the jaws of death - Carl Sandburg "Jaws"

Wrapped in the smoke of memories - Carl Sandburg "Knucks"

Broken to shape of thought - Carl Sandburg "Languages"

Colored with bitter wrongs - Carl Sandburg "Lawyers"

Mingled with monumental patience - Carl Sandburg "Lawyers"

Know a dead man's thoughts too well - Carl Sandburg "The Lawyers Know Too Much"

Too many doors to go in and out - Carl Sandburg "The Lawyers Know Too Much"

The knack of a mason outlasts a moon - Carl Sandburg "The Lawyers Know Too Much"

Build a house no wind blows over - Carl Sandburg "The Lawyers Know Too Much"

The law of stars held together - Carl Sandburg "Long Guns"

To conquer the insults of the moon - Carl Sandburg "Long Guns"

Where fog trails and mist creeps - Carl Sandburg "Lost"

Some lost child in tears and trouble - Carl Sandburg "Lost"

Voices reaching for the hear of the world - Carl Sandburg "Mask"

The sudden rise and slow relapse - Carl Sandburg "Monotone"

Of the long multitudinous rain - Carl Sandburg "Monotone"

Bannered with fire and gold - Carl Sandburg "Monotone"

The peace of long warm rain - Carl Sandburg "Monotone"

Got lost in the sky - Carl Sandburg "The Moon"

Among stars shattered in spray - Carl Sandburg "Night Stuff"

Twisted the roots under my heart - Carl Sandburg "Night Stuff"

Nobody is yourself - Carl Sandburg "Nobody"

On a six-foot stage of dust - Carl Sandburg "Old Osawatomie"

Singing rhythms in silence - Carl Sandburg "On the Breakwater"

Out of your many faces flash memories - Carl Sandburg "Passers-by"

Throats in the clutch of a hope - Carl Sandburg "Passers-by"

Dark as a stack of black cats - Carl Sandburg "Picnic Boat"

When you ask what is my desire - Carl Sandburg "Poems Done on a Late Night Car"

To cry only softly at the ashes of my mysteries - Carl Sandburg "Poems Done on a Late Night Car"

You that so flung your crimson to the sun - Carl Sandburg "Poems Done on a Late Night Car"

A man sunken to less than cinders - Carl Sandburg "Pool"

A tea-cup of ashes or so - Carl Sandburg "Pool"

Slides by on a high wind calling - Carl Sandburg "Potomac Town in February"

I know what the rainbow writes - Carl Sandburg "Prairie"

Through blue nights into white stars - Carl Sandburg "Prayers of Steel"

Let me lift and loosen old foundations - Carl Sandburg "Prayers of Steel"

The great nail holding a skyscraper - Carl Sandburg "Prayers of Steel"

Take your fill of intimate remorse, perfume sorrow - Carl Sandburg "The Right to Grief"

Swimming in midnights of coal mines - Carl Sandburg "River Roads"

Let the woodpecker drum and drum - Carl Sandburg "River Roads"

Hold the birds in a looking-glass - Carl Sandburg "River Roads"

Shiver to the blur of many wings - Carl Sandburg "River Roads"

Talking to a spread of white stars - Carl Sandburg "Shirt"

Broken answers of remembrance - Carl Sandburg "Shirt"

Somewhere in the city's push and fury - Carl Sandburg "Shirt"

An arm of sand in the span of salt - Carl Sandburg "Sketch"

Lucid and endless wrinkles draw in - Carl Sandburg "Sketch"

A soul of dreams and thoughts and memories - Carl Sandburg "Skyscraper"

And the press of time running into centuries - Carl Sandburg "Skyscraper"

Smoke of the finished steel - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"

By the oath of work - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"

In the secret of our numbers - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"

For a hidden and glimpsing moon - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"

The smoke changes its shadow - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"

Lost in the sieves of yesterday - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"

Shadow-dance and laugh at the cost - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"

Spools of fire wind - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"

On a dark night when lovers pass whispering - Carl Sandburg "Still Life"

Ghost songs and love to the harvest moon - Carl Sandburg "Theme in Yellow"

With a dust gagging the heart - Carl Sandburg "They All Want to Play Hamlet"

The fine cloth of your love - Carl Sandburg "They Buy with an Eye to Looks"

Could answer the metronomes of blood - Carl Sandburg "They Met Young"

A slouching, foolish moon - Carl Sandburg "They Met Young"

Your blinking wonderful eyes - Carl Sandburg "Think About Wheels"

Heard three red words - Carl Sandburg "Threes"

Slow from deep lungs - Carl Sandburg "Threes"

Whether love talks and roses grow - Carl Sandburg "To a Dead Man"

Handle dust going to a long country - Carl Sandburg "To Certain Journeymen"

A music for lonely hearts - Carl Sandburg "To Know Silence Perfectly"

Painted over haggard bones - Carl Sandburg "Trafficker"

And they cover you - Carl Sandburg "Two"

Unless the rain is willing - Carl Sandburg "Two Nocturns"

A million miles of white snowstorms - Carl Sandburg "Two Strangers Breakfast"

On the horn of an Arctic moon - Carl Sandburg "Two Strangers Breakfast"

The hum and the hurry of passing footfalls - Carl Sandburg "Under a Hat Rim"

Out of the look on a face - Carl Sandburg "Under a Hat Rim"

Comes and touches you with a thousand memories - Carl Sandburg "Under the Harvest Moon"

Touches you with a thousand memories - Carl Sandburg "Under the Harvest Moon"

And the red wrongs she has done - Carl Sandburg "Washerwoman"

Because the wilderness gave it to me - Carl Sandburg "Wilderness"

Circle and loop and double-cross - Carl Sandburg "Wilderness"

Flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams - Carl Sandburg "Wilderness"

Over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes - Carl Sandburg "Wilderness"

Broken across with slashes of light - Carl Sandburg "Window"

Dust and a bitter wind - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

Whistling ragtime against the sunsets - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

Stone and steel of your sleeping numbers - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

Count out cities and forget the numbers - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

The hungry hunting storms - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

Come along on the tearing blizzard tails - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

The snouts of the hungry hunting storms - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

The wind of the lake shore waits and wanders - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

Regrets fly kites in your eyes - Carl Sandburg "Wistful"

Stuff their pipes with dreams - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"

Where the hammers and shovels sleep in corners - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"

The night watchmen stuff their pipes with dreams - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"

Search their heads for meanings, stories, stars - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"

Even if we forget our names and houses in the finish - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"

Sleep is the first and last and best of all - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"

Song mouths connecting with song hearts - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"


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