 God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike. Drive me into the girders that hold a skyscraper together. Take red-hot rivets and fasten me into the central girders. Let me be the great nail holding a skyscraper through blue nights into white stars.  The Spirit and Substance of Art - Stran 180avtor: Louis William Flaccus - 1926 - 432 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Brander Matthews - 1906 - 380 strani
...The wall no longer served a useful purpose; why mend it? More passionately Carl Sandburg cries out: "Lay me on an anvil, O God, Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me prize loose old walls, Let me lift and loosen old foundations." What is the use, men are asking, of... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 1918 - 172 strani
...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 a skyscraper together. Take red-hot rivets and fasten... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - 1919 - 396 strani
...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 a skyscraper together. Take red-hot rivets and fasten... | |
 | Anita P. Forbes - 1920 - 328 strani
...of Life! Creator! It was I! It was I! — Margaret Widdemer PRAYERS OF STEEL Lay me on an anvil, 0 God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me...lift and loosen old foundations. Lay me on an anvil, 0 God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike. Drive me into the girders that hold a skyscraper together.... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - 1922 - 424 strani
...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 a skyscraper together. Take red-hot rivets and fasten... | |
 | 1923 - 560 strani
...forms of literary expression. This spirit is voiced by Carl Sandburg, the Poet Laureate of Chicago: "Lay me on an anvil, O God! Beat me and hammer me...old walls; Let me lift and loosen old foundations." This volume absolutely proves the contention of THE LARIAT that literary art entitled to be classed... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1923 - 982 strani
...aspiration not only of steel, but of men to give themselves to a great cause: "Lay me on an anvil, 0 God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me...lift and loosen old foundations. Lay me on an anvil, 0 God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike. Drive me into the girders that hold a skyscraper together.... | |
 | Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson - 1923 - 708 strani
...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 a skyscraper together. Take red-hot rivets and fasten... | |
 | Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson - 1923 - 706 strani
...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 a skyscraper together. Take red-hot rivets and fasten... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - 1923 - 466 strani
...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 a skyscraper together. Take red-hot rivets and fasten... | |
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