Clark Street Bridge

From Off the Road Database

Bibliographic Information
Author Sandburg, Carl
Genre Poetry
Journal or Book Chicago Poems
Publisher Ney York: Henry Holt and Company
Year of Publication 1916
Pages 12
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Clark Street Bridge

Dust of the feet
And dust of the wheels,
Wagons and people going,
All day feet and wheels.

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Now. . .
. . Only stars and mist
A lonely policeman,
Two cabaret dancers,
Stars and mist again,
No more feet or wheels,
No more dust and wagons.


Voices of dollars
And drops of blood
. . . . .
Voices of broken hearts,
. . Voices singing, singing,
. . Silver voices, singing,
Softer than the stars,
Softer than the mist.