The complete poems of Carl Sandburg

Chicago Poems

Chicago

Sketch

Masses

Lost

The Harbor

They will say

Mill-doors

Halsted street car

Clark street bridge

Passers-by

The walking man of Rodin

Subway

The shovel man

A teamster's farewell

Fish crier

Picnic boat

Happiness

Muckers

Blacklisted

Graceland

Child of the Romans

The right to grief

Mag

Onion days

Population drifts

Cripple

A fence

Anna Imroth

Working girls

Mamie

Personality

Cumulatives

To certain journeymen

Chamfort

Limited

The has-been

In a back alley

A coin

Dynamiter

Ice handler

Jack

Fellow citizens

Nigger

Two neighbors

Style

To Beachey, 1912

Under a hat rim

In a breath

Bath

Bronzes

Dunes

On the way

Ready to kill

To a contemporary bunkshooter

Skyscraper

Handfuls

Fog

Pool

Jan Kubelik

Choose

Crimson

Whitelight

Flux

Kin

White shoulders

Losses

Troths

War Poems (1914-1915)

Killers

Among the red guns

Iron

Murmurings in a field hospital

Statistics

Fight

Buttons

And they obey

Jaws

Salvage

Wars

The road and the end

The road and the end

Choices

Graves

Aztec mask

Momus

The answer

To a dead man

Under

A sphinx

Who am I?

Our prayer of thanks

Fogs and fires

At a window

Under the harvest moon

The great hunt

Monotone

Joy

Shirt

Aztec

Two

Back yard

On the breakwater

Mask

Pearl fog

I sang

Follies

June

Nocturne in a deserted brickyard

Hydrangeas

Theme in yellow

Between two hills

Last answers

Window

Young sea

Bones

Pals

Child

Poppies

Child moon

Margaret

Shadows

Poems done on a late night car

It is much

Trafficker

Harrison street court

Soiled dove

Jungheimer's

Gone

Other days (1900-1910)

Dreams in the dusk

Docks

All day long

Waiting

From the shore

Uplands in May

Dream girl

Plowboy

Broadway

Old woman

Noon hour

'Boes

Under a telephone pole

I am the people, the mob

Government

Languages

Letters to dead imagists

Sheep

The red son

The mist

The junk man

Silver nails

Gypsy.

Cornhuskers

Cornhuskers

Prairie

River roads

Prairie waters by night

Early moon

Laughing corn

Autumn movement

Falltime

Illinois farmer

Hits and runs

Village in late summer

Blizzard notes

Sunset from Omaha hotel window

Still life

Band concert

Three pieces on the smoke of Autumn

Localities

Caboose thoughts

Alix

Potato blossom songs and jigs

Loam

Manitobe Childe Roland

Wilderness

Persons half known

Chicago poet

Fire-logs

Repetitions

Adelaide crapsey

Young bullfrogs

Memoir of a proud boy

Bilbea

Southern pacific

Washerwoman

Portrait of a motorcar

Girl in a cage

Buffalo Bill

Sixteen months

Child Margaret

Singing nigger

Leather leggings

Leather leggings

Prayers of steel

Always the mob

Jabberers

Cartoon

Interior

Street window

Palladiums

Clocks

Legends

Psalm of those who go forth before daylight

Horses and men in rain

Questionnaire

Near Keokuk

Slants at Buffalo, New York

Flat lands

Lawyer

Three balls

Chicks

Humdrum

Joliet

Knucks

Testament

Haunts

Valley song

In tall grass

Upstairs

Monosyllabic

Films

Kreisler

The sea hold

Goldwing moth

Loin cloth

Hemlock and cedar

Summer shirt sale

Medallion

Bricklayer love

Ashurnatsirpal III

Mammy hums

Bringers

Crimson rambler

Haunts

Have me

Fire dreams

Baby face

The year

Drumnotes

Moonset

Garden wireless

Handfuls

Cool tombs

Shenandoah

Shenandoah

New feet

Old Osawatomie

Grass

Flanders

Gargoyle

Old timers

House

John Ericsson Day Memorial, 1918

Remembered women

Out of white lips

Memoir

A million young workmen

Smoke

A tall man

The four brothers

Smoke and steel

Smoke nights

Smoke and steel

Five towns on the B. and O.

Work gangs

Pennsylvania

Whirls

People who must

People who must

Alley rats

Eleventh Avenue racket

Home fires

Hats

They all want to play Hamlet

The mayor of Gary

Omaha

Galoots

Crabapple blossoms

Real estate news

Manual system

Stripes

Honkey tonk in Cleveland, Ohio

Crapshooters

Soup

Clinton south of folk

Blue Island intersection

Red-headed restaurant cashier

Boy and father

Clean curtains

Crimson changes people

Neighbors

Cahoots

Blue maroons

The hangman at home

Man, the man hunter

The sins of Kalamazoo

Broken-face gargoyles

Broken-face gargoyles

Aprons of silence

Death snips proud men

Good night

Shirt

Jazz fantasia

Do you want affidavits?

"Old-fashioned requited love"

Purple martins

Brass keys

Pick-offs

Manufactured Gods

Mask

Playthings of the wind

Four preludes on playthings of the wind

Broken tabernacles

Osawatomie

Long guns

Dusty doors

Flash crimson

The lawyers know too much

Losers

Places

Threes

The liars

Prayer after world war

A.E.F.

Bas-relief

Carlovingian dreams

Bronzes

Let love go on

Killers

Clean hands

Three ghosts

Pencils

Jug

And this will be all?

Hoodlums

Yes, the dead speak to us

Mist forms

Calls

Sea-wash

Silver wind

Evening waterfall

Crucible

Summer stars

Throw roses

Just before April came

Stars, songs, faces

Sandpipers

Three violins

The wind sings welcome in early spring

Tawney

Slippery

Helga

Baby toes

People with proud chins

Winter milk

Sleepyheads

Sumach and birds

Women washing their hair

Peach blossoms

Half moon in a high wind

Remorse

River moons

Sand scribblings

How yesterday looked

Paula

Laughing blue steel

They ask each other where they came from

How much?

Throwbacks

Wind song

Three spring notations on bipeds

Sandhill people

Far rockaway night till morning

Hummingbird woman

Buckwheat

Blue Ridge

Valley song

Mist forms

Pigeon

Chasers

Horse fiddle

Timber wings

Night stuff

Spanish

Shag-bark hickory

The south wind says so

Accomplished facts

Accomplished facts

Grieg being dead

Chords

Dogheads

Trinity place

Portrait

Potomac river mist

Jack London and O. Henry

His own face hidden

Cups of coffee

Passports

Smoke rose gold

Tangibles

Night movement-New York

North Atlantic

Fog portrait

Flying fish

Home thoughts

In the shadow of the palace

Two items

Streets too old

Savoir faire

Mohammed Bek Hadjetlache

High conspiratorial persons

Baltic fog notes

Circles of doors

Circles of doors

Hate

Two strangers breakfast

Snow

Dancer

Plaster

Curse of a rich Polish peasant on his sister who ran away with a wild man

Woman with a past

White hands

An electric sign goes dark

They buy with an eye to looks

Proud and beautiful

Telegram

Glimmer

White ash

Testimony regarding a ghost

Put off the wedding five times and nobody comes to it

Baby vamps

Vaudeville dancer

Balloon faces

Haze

Haze

Cadenza

Memoranda

Potomac town in February

Buffalo dusk

Corn hut talk

Branches

Rusty crimson

Letter S

Weeds

New farm tractor

Pods

Harvest sunset

Night's nothings again

Panels

Panels

Dan

Whiffletree

Mascots

The skyscraper loves night

Never born

Thin strips

Five cent balloons

My people

Swirl

Wistful

Basket

Fire pages

Finish

For you.

Slabs of the sunburnt west

The windy city

Washington monument by night

And so today

Black horizons

Sea slant

Upstream

Four Steichen prints

Fins

Beat, old heart

Moon riders

At the gates of tombs

Hazardous occupations

Props

Gypsy mother

Gold mud

Crossing the paces

Couples

Caligari

Feather lights

Pearl horizons

Hoof dusk

Harsk, harsk

Brancusi

Ambassadors of grief

Without the cane and the derby

The rakeoff and the getaway

Two humpties

Improved farmland

Hell on the Wabash

This-for the moon-yes?

Primer lesson

Slabs of the sunburnt west

Good morning America

Tentative (first model) definitions of poetry

Good morning America

Spring grass

Spring grass

Moist moon people

Spring cries

Frog songs

Lumber yard pools at sunset

Spring carries surprises

More country people

Spring wind

Crisscross

Baby song of the four winds

Blossom themes

Small homes

Corn belt

She opens the barn door every morning

Milk-white moon, put the cows to sleep

Slow program

Field people

Sunsets

Grassroots

Canadians and Pottawatomies

Corn and beans

Mockers go to Kansas in spring

Bird talk

Kansas lessons

Cricket march

Summer grass

Nocturn cabbage

Crabapples

Poplar and elm

Brown gold

Ripe corn

Auburn

Redhaw rain

Without notice beforehand

Corn prattlings

Haze gold

Winter gold

Maroon with silver frost

Cornfield ridge and stream

On a railroad right of way

So to speak

Valley mist

Silver point

Mist marches across the valley

Methusaleh saw many repeaters

Sketch of a poet

Whiffs of the Ohio River at Cincinnati

Surburban Sicilian sketches

Flat waters of the west in Kansas

Three slants at New York

Landscape including three states of the union

Crossing Ohio when poppies bloom in Ashtabula

March of the hungry mountains

Dialogue

Smoke blue

Again?

Even numbers

Chillicothe

Splinter

Santa Fe sketches

Little Album

New Hampshire again

A couple

Chicago boy baby

Joke gold

The old flagman

Iglits and his wife

Medley

Implications

To the ghost of John Milton

Heavy and light

Early hours

Hungry and laughing men

Fate

Cheap blue

Lavender lilies

Half way

Between worlds

M'Liss and Louie

Bitter summer thoughts

Phizzog

Bitter summer thoughts

Bitter summer thoughts-no. 3

Bitter summer thoughts-no. XXII

Bars

They ask: Is God, too, lonely?

Two nocturns

Useless words

Wanting the impossible

Money, politics, love, and glory

The way of the world

Early lynching

Plunger

Rain winds

Rain winds blow doors open

Wind horses

River moon

They met young

Yellow evening star

Face

Head

Explanations of love

Seven eleven

Spray

Broken hearted soprano

Epistle

Monkey of stars.

Great rooms

Sea chest

We have gone through great rooms together

Love in Labrador

Sleep impression

Maybe

Bug spots

Understandings in blue

Let them ask your pardon

Striped cats, old men and proud stockings

Moon hammock

Thimble islands

Clefs

The great proud wagon wheels go on

Tall timber

Proud torsos

To know silence perfectly

Sky pieces

Sky pieces

Lovable babblers

Oomba

Seventeen months

Sarah's letter to Peter

Destroyers

Two women and their fathers

Very very important

Foolish about windows

Love letter to Hans Christian Andersen

Mysterious biography

Rat riddles

Winter weather

The dinosaur bones

Unintentional paint

People of the eaves, I wish you good morning

Wedding postponed

Two women

Snatch of sliphorn jazz

Landscape

Different kinds of good-by

Three hills look different in the moonshine

Proud of their rags

Broken sky

Hells and heavens

Three fragments for fishers of destiny

Timber moon

Timber moon

Flowers tell months

Landscape

Counting

Oak arms

Moon path

There are different gardens

Windflower leaf

Little sketch

Butter colors

Webs

Peace, night, sleep

Bundles

Man and dog on an early winter morning

Precious moments

October paint

Many hats

The people, yes

New section

War-time

Storms begin far back

Books men die for

Open letter to the poet Archibald MacLeish who has forsaken his Massachusetts farm to make propaganda for freedom

Mr. Attila

Is there any easy road to freedom?

The man with the broken fingers

Freedom is a habit

Elephants are different to different people

On a flimmering floom you shall ride

Scroll

The fireborn are at home in fire

Mr. Longfellow and his boy

The long shadow of Lincoln : a litany

When death came April twelve 1945

Present hour

Jan, the son of Thomas

Peace between wars

Scriptsmith

Enemy number one

Worms and the wind

The abracadabra boys

Shoes of travel

Turn of the wheel

Many handles

The unknown war

Packsack

1. Early period

Nocturn IV

Brim

Francois Villon forgotten

Broken sonnet

The hammer

Hammers pounding

The wind on the way

Aloof

Dust

2. Little people

Sweeping Wendy : study in Fugue

Paper I

Paper II

Doors

Boxes and bags

We must be polite

Arithmetic

Little girl, be careful what you say

3. Sky talk

Sky talk

Riddles and whims

Bright conversation with Saint-Ex

Meadow in summer

Guaranteed antique

You shall have homes

Two moon fantasies

Drowsy

Our hells

This street never sleeps

New song for Indiana Ophelias

Moonlight and maggots

Special starlight

The press is peculiar

Glass house canticle

Swell people

Public letter to Emily Dickinson

Scripture

Wall shadows

One modern poet

Light and moonbells

Cornucopia

Little candle

Moments of dawn riders

Crossed numbers

Night bells

Harmonica humdrums

Changing light winds

Number man

Anywhere and everywhere people.

1950-1967

From the Sandburg Range

Brainwashing

Kisses forgotten

Theorem

Man the moon shooter

Psalm of the bloodbank

Acquaintance with Death, Sir

Shenandoah journey

Star silver

Consolation sonata

From harvest poems: 1910-1960

Now they bury her again

Name us a king

Red and white

Sayings of Henry Stephens

Air circus

Madison and 42nd

Instructions

Altgeld

Waiting for the chariot

Was ever a dream a drum?

Under the capitol dome

Isle of Patmos

From Wind Song.

Bluebird, what do you feed on?

Never two songs the same

Daybreak

Bee song

Bubbles

Old deep sing-song

Fourth of July night

Sea wisdom

Nightsong

Portrait of a child settling down for an afternoon nap

Stars

Be ready

Auctioneer

Sleep song

Alice Corbin is gone

Lines written for Gene Kelly to dance to

Honey and salt

Honey and salt

Pass, friend

Alone and not alone

Wingtip

Love is a deep and a dark and a lonely

Almanac

Biography

Anecdote of hemlock for two Athenians

Dreaming fool

Lief the lucky

Bird footprint

Cahokia

Buyers and sellers

City number

Chromo

The evening sunsets witness and pass on

Deep sea wandering

Call the next witness

Early copper

Atlas, how have you been?

Cheap rent

Elm buds

Child face

Fog numbers

Evening questions

Fifty-fifty

Evening sea wind

Forgotten wars

God is no gentleman

Hunger and cold

Foxgloves

Harvest

Fame if not fortune

Impasse

Is wisdom a lot of language?

Keepsake boxes

Impossible Iambics

Lackawanna twilight

If so hap may be

Kisses, can you come back like ghosts?

Lake Michigan morning

New weather

Lesson

Metamorphosis

Love beyond keeping

Moon Rondeau

Little word, little white bird

Offering and rebuff

Morning glory blue

High moments

Mummy

Old Hokusai print

One parting

Ever a seeker

Old music for quiet hearts

Personalia

The gong of time

Prairie woodland

Shadows fall blue on the mountains

Quotations

Skyscrapers stand proud

Pool of Bethesda

First sonata for Karen Paula

Thou art like a flower

Solo for Saturday night guitar

Rose bawn

Speech

Runaway colors

Out of the rainbow end

Sun dancer

Themes in contrast

Two fish

Smoke shapes

Three shrines

Variations on a theme

Timesweep.

Chicago poems

Cornhuskers

Smoke and steel

Slabs of the sunburnt West

Good morning, America

The people, yes

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