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Poem by Carl Sandburg


Lost


Desolate and lone
All night long on the lake
Where fog trails and mist creeps,
The whistle of a boat
Calls and cries unendingly,
Like some lost child
In tears and trouble
Hunting the harbor's breast
And the harbor's eyes.



Carl Sandburg


Carl Sandburg's other poems:
  1. Old-fashioned Requited Love
  2. Baby Vamps
  3. Arithmetic
  4. Haunts
  5. Subway


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Emily Dickinson Lost ("I Lost a World the Other Day!") 1860
  • Ella Wilcox Lost ("You left me with the autumn time")
  • Andrew Paterson Lost ("”He ought to be home,” said the old man, ”without there’s something amiss")
  • Charles Sorley Lost ("Across my past imaginings") December 1914

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