Carl Sandburg. The Year. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

The Year

By Carl Sandburg


From “My People” I A STORM of white petals,
Buds throwing open baby fists
Into hands of broad flowers.

II Red roses running upward,
Clambering to the clutches of life	5
Soaked in crimson.

III Rabbles of tattered leaves
Holding golden flimsy hopes
Against the tramplings
Into the pits and gullies.	10

IV Hoarfrost and silence:
Only the muffling
Of winds dark and lonesome—
Great lullabies to the long sleepers.