| Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Chicago Poems. 1916. |
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| 93. Joy |
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| LET a joy keep you. | |
| Reach out your hands | |
| And take it when it runs by, | |
| As the Apache dancer | |
| Clutches his woman. | 5 |
| I have seen them | |
| Live long and laugh loud, | |
| Sent on singing, singing, | |
| Smashed to the heart | |
| Under the ribs | 10 |
| With a terrible love. | |
| Joy always, | |
| Joy everywhere— | |
| Let joy kill you! | |
| Keep away from the little deaths. | 15 |
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