Poem by Carl Sandburg

Margaret

Many birds and the beating of wings
Make a flinging reckless hum
In the early morning at the rocks
Above the blue pool
Where the gray shadows swim lazy.

In your blue eyes, O reckless child,
I saw today many little wild wishes,
Eager as the great morning.

1. Old-fashioned Requited Love
2. Baby Vamps
3. Arithmetic
4. Haunts
5. Subway

Jean Blewett Margaret ("Her eyes—upon a summer's day")

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