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Submit Human Translation | Discuss Poem | Post Poetry | Listen McGill Live Bones by Carl Sandburg Sling me under the sea. Pack me down in the salt and wet. No farmer's plow shall touch my bones. No Hamlet hold my jaws and speak How jokes are gone and empty is my mouth. Long, green-eyed scavengers shall pick my eyes, Purple fish play hide-and-seek, And I shall be song of thunder, crash of sea, Down on the floors of salt and wet. Sling me... under the sea. American Review | www.PaperLyon.com | McGill Live Radio | Publish

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Poems by Carl Sandburg All Day Long Among The Red Guns And They Obey Anna Imroth At A Window Aztec Aztec Mask A Coin A Fence A Sphinx A Teamsters Farewell Back Yard Bath Between Two Hills Blacklisted Boes Bones Bricklayer Love Broadway Bronzes Buttons Chamfort Chicago Child Child Moon Child Of The Romans Choices Choose Clark Street Bridge Crimson Cripple Cumulatives Docks Dreams In The Dusk Dream Girl Dunes Dynamiter Fellow Citizens Fight Fish Crier Flux Fog Follies From The Shore Goldwing Moth Gone Government Graceland Graves Gypsy Halsted Street Car Happiness Harrison Street Court Have Me Hydrangeas Ice Handler In A Back Alley In A Breath Iron It Is Much I Am The People The Mob I Sang Jack Jan Kubelik Jaws Joy June Jungheimers Killers Kin Languages Last Answers Letters To Dead Imagists Limited Losses Lost Mag Mamie Margaret Mask Masses Mill-Doors Momus Monotone Muckers Murmurings In A Field Hospital Nigger Nocturne In A Deserted Brickyard Noon Hour Old Woman Onion Days On The Breakwater On The Way Our Prayer Of Thanks Pals Passers-By Pearl Fog Personality Picnic Boat Plowboy Poems Done On A Late Night Car Pool Poppies Population Drifts Ready To Kill Salvage Sheep Shirt Silver Nails Sketch Skyscraper Soiled Dove Statistics Style Subway Sunset From Omaha Hotel Window Theme In Yellow They Will Say The Answer The Great Hunt The Harbor The Has-Been The Junk Man The Mist The Red Son The Right To Grief The Road And The End The Shovel Man The Walking Man Of Rodin To A Contemporary Bunkshooter To A Dead Man To Beachey 1912 To Certain Journeymen Trafficker Troths Two Two Neighbors Under Under A Hat Rim Under A Telephone Pole Under The Harvest Moon Uplands In May Waiting Wars Whitelight White Shoulders Who Am I Window Working Girls Young Sea

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C.P. Cavafy	Carl Sandburg	Carol Ann Duffy
Charles Baudelaire	Charles Bukowski	Charles H. Sorley
Charles Simic	Charles Webb	Charlotte Bronte
Christina Rossetti	Christopher Marlowe	Christopher Morley
Christopher Smart	Conrad Aiken	Craig Raine
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