Out of the fire
Came a man sunken
To less than cinders,
A tea-cup of ashes or so.
And I,
The gold in the house,
Writhed into a stiff pool.

(C) Carl Sandburg
01/01/2000


Best Poems of Carl Sandburg

• Primer Lesson
• Muckers
• Happiness
• Dream Girl
• Upstairs
• Child
• Goldwing Moth
• Under The Harvest Moon
• Moonset
• Fire-logs
• The Hammer
• Circles Of Doors
• Hydrangeas
• Gone
• Losers
• Upstream
• Choices
• Passers-by
• Nigger
• Picnic Boat
• Onion Days