EVERY year Emily Dickinson sent one friend
the first arbutus bud in her garden.

In a last will and testament Andrew Jackson
remembered a friend with the gift of George
Washington’s pocket spy-glass.

Napoleon too, in a last testament, mentioned a silver
watch taken from the bedroom of Frederick the Great,
and passed along this trophy to a particular friend.

O. Henry took a blood carnation from his coat lapel
and handed it to a country girl starting work in a
bean bazaar, and scribbled: “Peach blossoms may or
may not stay pink in city dust.”
So it goes. Some things we buy, some not.
Tom Jefferson was proud of his radishes, and Abe
Lincoln blacked his own boots, and Bismarck called
Berlin a wilderness of brick and newspapers.

So it goes. There are accomplished facts.
Ride, ride, ride on in the great new blimps—
Cross unheard-of oceans, circle the planet.
When you come back we may sit by five hollyhocks.
We might listen to boys fighting for marbles.
The grasshopper will look good to us.

So it goes …

Analysis, meaning and summary of Carl Sandburg's poem Accomplished Facts

3 Comments

  1. Dan(lazy)Honnet says:

    Hello everybody, my name is Daniel, and I’m glad to join your conmunity,
    Wish to assist as far as possible.

  2. rodney says:

    Its really not that hard…..I think that is what he says. After you do all you desire to, achieve all you strive for, reach for all that you wish to have; It comes down to comming home and enjoying the simple things that you dont have to try to get, .but are already there

  3. JUDITH MARLIN says:

    MR SANDBURG WAS A KINDRED SPIRIT TO THOSE THAT HAD INSIGHT TO MODERN GROWTH.

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