Child of the Romans
Carl Sandburg
1878 to 1967
Track 1
Reconstruct the poem by dragging each line into its correct position. Your goal is to reassemble the original poem as accurately as possible. As you move the lines, you'll see whether your arrangement is correct, helping you explore the poem's flow and meaning. You can also print out the jumbled poem to cut up and reassemble in the classroom. Either way, take your time, enjoy the process, and discover how the poet's words come together to create something truly beautiful.
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Shake hardly at all in the cut glass vases
Keeping the road-bed so the roses and jonquils
Standing slender on the tables in the dining cars.
The dago shovelman sits by the railroad track
Eating a noon meal of bread and bologna
The dago shovelman finishes the dry bread and bologna.
Eat steaks running with brown gravy,
And goes back to the second half of a ten-hour day's work
Strawberries and cream, eclairs and coffee
A train whirls by, and men and women at tables
Washes it down with a dipper from the water-boy,
Alive with red roses and yellow jonquils,