Poems on the topic: fisherman

Poems on the topic “fisherman” on Poets.by.

ContemplativeCarl Sandburg

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Strong rocks hold up the riksdag bridge . . . always strong river waters shoving their shoulders against them . . . In the riksdag to-night three hundred men are talking to each other about more potatoes and bread for the Swedish people to eat this winter. In a boat among calm waters next to the running waters a fisherman sits in the dark and I, leaning at a parapet, see him lift a net and let it down ... he waits ... the waters run ... the riksdag talks ... he lifts the net and lets it down . . . Stars lost in the sky ten days of drizzle spread over the sky saying yes-yes. Every afternoon at four o'clock fifteen apple women who have sold their apples in Christiania meet

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