"There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart,
The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust.
A spider will make a silver string nest in the darkest, warmest
corner of it." Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), U.S. poet. A. E. F. (l. 1-3). . .
Modern American & British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed., in consultation with Karl Shapiro and Richard Wilbur. (Rev., shorter ed., 1955) Harcourt, Brace and Company. |
"The buffaloes are gone.
And those who saw the buffaloes are gone." Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), U.S. poet. Buffalo Dusk (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America, The. Donald Hall, ed. (1985) Oxford University Press. |
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