77. Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard. Carl Sandburg. Modern American Poetry

Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern American Poetry. 1919.

Carl Sandburg. 1878–

77. Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard

STUFF of the moon
Runs on the lapping sand
Out to the longest shadows.
Under the curving willows,
And round the creep of the wave line,	5
Fluxions of yellow and dusk on the waters
Make a wide dreaming pansy of an old pond in the night.