 And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.  Century Monthly Magazine - Page 775edited by - 1923Full view - About this book
 | Harriet Monroe - American poetry - 1916 - 356 pages
...at times — as when he salutes Chicago, "stormy, husky, brawling," and sets her high among cities, "with lifted head singing, so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning." In some of the war poems his rhythms pound like guns booming, and when he talks back to the loud-mouthed... | |
 | Harriet Monroe - American poetry - 1914 - 284 pages
...turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing...slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness,... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - American poetry - 1916 - 214 pages
...turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing...here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the ! t little soft cities; 3 4 Chicago Poems Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as... | |
 | Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson - 1917 - 452 pages
...turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing...slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness,... | |
 | Amy Lowell - American poetry - 1917 - 398 pages
...turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing...bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities ; Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness,... | |
 | Albert Shaw - World politics - 1918 - 866 pages
...Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City a/ the Big Shoulders: • * • Come and shovi me another city with lifted head singing so proud...slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; Fierce a] a dog •-.;//• tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness;... | |
 | Albert Shaw - American literature - 1918 - 688 pages
...Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders: Come and show me another city <witft lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse...is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little toft cities; Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the... | |
 | Francis Hackett - English fiction - 1918 - 400 pages
...crumbier : to-morrow." " They offer you many things, I a few." " I am the nigger, Singer of songs." " Here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities." " I am a copper wire slung in the air." This is not a trick. It is simply a pushing of the imagination... | |
 | Leonidas Warren Payne - American literature - 1919 - 452 pages
...turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing...slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness,... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1919 - 396 pages
...turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them : Come and show me another city with lifted head singing...bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities ; Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness,... | |
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