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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HALSTED STREET CAR, by CARL SANDBURG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Come you, cartoonists
Last Line: Empty of dreams.
Subject(s): Chicago; Streetcars
First Line: Come you, cartoonists
Last Line: Empty of dreams.
Subject(s): Chicago; Streetcars
Come you, cartoonists,
Hang on a strap with me here
At seven o'clock in the morning
On a Halsted street car.
Take your pencils
And draw these faces.
Try with your pencils for these crooked faces,
That pig-sticker in one corner -- his mouth --
That overall factory girl -- her loose cheeks.
Find for your pencils
A way to mark your memory
Of tired empty faces.
After their night's sleep,
In the moist dawn
And cool daybreak,
Faces
Tired of wishes,
Empty of dreams.
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