140. Letters to Dead Imagists. Sandburg, Carl. 1916. Chicago Poems

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Chicago Poems. 1916.

140. Letters to Dead Imagists


EMILY DICKINSON: YOU gave us the bumble bee who has a soul,
The everlasting traveler among the hollyhocks,
And how God plays around a back yard garden.

STEVIE CRANE: War is kind and we never knew the kindness of war till you came;
Nor the black riders and clashes of spear and shield out of the sea,	5
Nor the mumblings and shots that rise from dreams on call.