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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

Be glad the obstacles are there; consider how difficult it would be to climb a smooth mountain.
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Poems of the Day
  • Edgar Lee Masters
    Margaret Fuller Slack
    by Edgar Lee Masters
    I would have been as great as George Eliot But for an untoward fate. For look at the photograph of me made by Penniwit, Chin resting on hand, and deep-set eyes -- Gray, too, and far-searching.