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by Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

I WILL keep you and bring hands to hold you against a great hunger.
I will run a spear in you for a great gladness to die with.
I will stab you between the ribs of the left side with a great love worth remembering.




Quotes of the Day

Ultimately, the bond of companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.
• Oscar Wilde


Poems of the Day
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    The Two Rivers
    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Slowly the hour-hand of the clock moves round; So slowly that no human eye hath power To see it move! Slowly in shine or shower The painted ship above it, homeward bound,