| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920. 1920. |
| |
| Tangibles |
| | | Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) |
| | | | | (Washington, August, 1918) |
| |
| |
| I HAVE seen this city in the day and the sun. | |
| I have seen this city in the night and the moon. | |
| And in the night and the moon I have seen a thing this city gave me nothing of in the day and the sun. | |
| |
| The float of the dome in the day and the sun is one thing. | |
| The float of the dome in the night and the moon is another thing. | 5 |
| In the night and the moon the float of the dome is a dream-whisper, a croon of a hope: “Not today, child, not today, lover; maybe tomorrow, child, maybe tomorrow, lover.” | |
| |
| Can a dome of iron dream deeper than living men? | |
| Can the float of a shape hovering among tree-tops—can this speak an oratory sad, singing and red beyond the speech of the living men? | |
| |
| A mother of men, a sister, a lover, a woman past the dreams of the living— | |
| Does she go sad, singing and red out of the float of this dome? | 10 |
| |
There is … something … here … men die for.
Poetry, A Magazine of Verse | |
| |
|
|
|
