 PRAYERS OF STEEL Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls; Let me lift and loosen old foundations. Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike. Drive me into the girders that hold...  The New Era in American Poetry - Strana 106autor/autoři: Louis Untermeyer - 1919 - 364 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | 1919 - 374 str.
...a poem. The same adventure arises out of Prayers of Steel, from "Lay me on an anvil, O God," up to "Let me be the great nail holding a skyscraper through blue nights into white stars." The first group is the America of open spaces, this third group the America of cities. It is felt by... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 1918 - 172 str.
...drumming, the leather leggings and the leather coats wait : Under the sea and out to the stars we go. LAY me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into...a skyscraper through blue nights into white stars. JESUS emptied the devils of one man into forty hogs and the hogs took the edge of a high rock and dropped... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 1918 - 168 str.
...drumming, the leather leggings and the leather coats wait: Under the sea and out to the stars we go. 1 . LAY me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into...me be the great nail holding a skyscraper through ,4 . blue nights into white stars. I JESUS emptied the devils of one man into forty hogs and the hogs... | |
 | Anita P. Forbes - 1920 - 328 str.
...crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations. Lay me on an anvil, 0 God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike. Drive...a skyscraper through blue nights into white stars. ELLIS PARK . ' • ' i- '; ' Little park that 1 pass through, I carry off a piece of you Every morning... | |
 | 1921 - 706 str.
...and before his freshness depart, learn to be his own critic, become what he prayed he might become, "the great nail holding a skyscraper through blue nights into white stars". For he, and his comrades, have found, miraculously, the strength to achieve things in themselves wonderful.... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - 1922 - 424 str.
...and passengers ask the conductor: What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work. PRAYERS OF STEEL Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me...a skyscraper through blue nights into white stars. COOL TOMBS When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot the copperheads and the assassin... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - 1923 - 466 str.
...Mob," "The Four Brothers" and this muscular prayer for strength that can build as well as tear down: PRAYERS OF STEEL Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me...almost as fervidly as the life from which it is taken. But here his intensity is seldom raucous. He has written little that is quieter and yet more positive... | |
 | Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson - 1923 - 706 str.
...tomorrows, A sky of tomorrows. I am a brother of the eornhuskers who say at sundown: Tomorrow is a day. PRAYERS OF STEEL Lay me on an anvil, O God ! Beat...a skyscraper through blue nights into white stars. GRASS Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work : I am the... | |
 | Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson - 1923 - 708 str.
...tomorrows, A sky of tomorrows. I am a brother of the cornhuskers who say at sundown: Tomorrow is a day. PRAYERS OF STEEL Lay me on an anvil, O God! Beat me...a skyscraper through blue nights into white stars. GRASS Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work : I am the... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1923 - 982 str.
...crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations. Lay me on an anvil, 0 God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike. Drive...skyscraper through blue nights into white stars." A poet of the older order might have put some such prayer into the mouth of a plow or of an ax or of... | |
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