Contents ( 199)
- Publisher’s Note
- Contents
- Introduction
- CHICAGO
- IMAGES
- POEMS OF PROTEST
- LOVE POEMS
- LINCOLN
- ANTI-WAR AND WAR POEMS
- PORTRAITS
- AFRICAN-AMERICANS
- POET OF THE PEOPLE
- MUSINGS
- POETRY DEFINITIONS
- A Note on the Text
- Chicago
- Chicago
- Halsted Street Car
- The Workingmen
- Fish Crier
- Muckers
- Mill-Doors
- Mag
- Onion Days
- Dynamiter
- Mamie
- Working Girls
- Trafficker
- Harrison Street Court
- Gone
- Soiled Dove
- Old Woman
- Washerwoman
- Gypsy Mother
- Implications
- Graceland
- Skyscraper
- The People, Yes
- The Windy City
- Images
- Fog
- Sketch
- Lost
- Flux
- Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard
- Window
- Sunset from Omaha Hotel Window
- Prairie Waters by Night
- Bee Song
- Bumble Bee Days
- Jan Kubelik
- Chinese Letters or Korean
- Painted Fishes
- These Valleys Seem Old
- Three Pieces on the Smoke of Autumn
- Poems of Protest
- Billy Sunday
- The Eastland
- Anna Imroth
- The Hammer
- Child of the Romans
- Southern Pacific
- ’Boes
- Taking on Suds Men Talk
- Glimmer
- Jerry
- Horses and Men in Rain
- Hoodlums
- The Mayor of Gary
- Blacklisted
- The Machine
- Legal Midnight Hour
- Love Poems
- Paula
- White Shoulders
- June
- Poppies
- Margaret
- Baby Toes
- Helga
- Spanish
- You and a Sickle Moon
- In Blue Gown and in Black Satin Gown
- She Held Herself a Deep Pool for Him
- An Interwoven Man and Woman Talked
- Troth Tryst
- Offering and Rebuff
- Hellcat
- Bilbea
- Lincoln
- Fire-Logs
- In a Back Alley
- Knucks
- The People, Yes
- The Long Shadow of Lincoln: A Litany
- Abraham Lincoln’s Father and Mother*
- Lincoln*
- Mr. Lincoln and His Gloves*
- Journey and Oath*
- Untitled*
- Anti-War and War Poems
- House
- Old Timers
- Ready to Kill
- Killers
- Planked Whitefish
- Murmurings in a Field Hospital
- Buttons
- Salvage
- Wars
- A Million Young Workmen, 1915
- In The Shadow of the Palace
- The Four Brothers
- Nearer Than Any Mother’s Heart Wishes
- The Man with the Broken Fingers
- Forgotten Wars
- Grass
- Portraits
- To a Poet*
- Memoir of a Proud Boy
- Napoleon
- Hawthorne
- Mr. Blake’s Chariots
- Evidence As to a She Devil
- Arms
- Eugene V. Debs
- Ezra*
- Good Babies Make Good Poems
- From an Illinois Prairie Hut
- Letters to Dead Imagists
- Illinois Farmer
- Osawatomie
- Grieg Being Dead
- Sherwood Anderson
- Jack London and O. Henry
- Without the Cane and the Derby
- To the Ghost of John Milton
- Mysterious Biography
- Mr. Longfellow and His Boy
- Dan
- African-Americans
- Jazz Fantasia
- Sojourner Truth Speaking
- The People, Yes
- Cleo
- Black Prophetess
- Elizabeth Umpstead
- Sayings of Henry Stephens
- Nigger
- Man, the Man-Hunter
- Poet of the People
- I Am the People, the Mob
- A Reporter in Debt
- My People
- Poems Done on a Late Night Car
- Prairie
- Cartoon
- Smoke and Steel
- The Lawyers Know Too Much
- The Liars
- Threes
- Red-Headed Restaurant Cashier
- Lines Written for Gene Kelly to Dance To
- Slabs of the Sunburnt West
- A Couple
- The People, Yes
- Timesweep
- Musings
- Chicago Poet
- Phizzog
- Wilderness
- Broken-Face Gargoyles
- Aprons of Silence
- The Road and the End
- Style
- Potato Blossom Songs and Jigs
- Cool Tombs
- Old Osawatomie
- Hats
- Accomplished Facts
- Buffalo Dusk
- The Abracadabra Boys
- Our Hells
- Moonlight and Maggots
- Biography
- Breathing Tokens
- Monday, One P.M.
- Government
- I Should Like to Be Hanged on a Summer Afternoon
- Poetry Definitions
- Tentative (First Model) Definitions of Poetry
- Acknowledgments
- Original Publication Sources
- Selected Bibliography
- Index of Titles and First Lines
- About the Editors
- The Works of Carl Sandburg
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
“Four Brothers, The,” 110
“From an Illinois Prairie Hut,” 145
From the four comers of the earth, 207
“Glimmer,” 58
“Gone,” 12
“Good Babies Make Good Poems,” 144
Good reading good reading, 143
“Government,” 265
“Graceland,” 16
“Grass,” 134
Green fishes on a red-lacquered tray, 43
“Grieg Being Dead,” 148
Grieg being dead we may speak of him and his art, 148
Guns on the battle lines have pounded now a year between Brussels and Paris, 107
“Gypsy Mother,” 14
“Halsted Street Car,” 4
“Hammer, The,” 54
“Harrison Street Court,” 11
“Hats,” 252
Hats, where do you belong?, 252
“Hawthorne,” 140
He had arguments about a woman, 75
He lived on the wings of storm, 137
He was in Cincinnati, she in Burlington, 206
“Helga,” 69
“Hellcat,” 75
Hog Butcher for the World, 3
“Hoodlums,” 60
“Horses and Men in Rain,” 59
“House,” 101
Huntington sleeps in a house six feet long, 55
I am a hoodlum, you are a hoodlum, we and all of us are a world of hoodlums—maybe so, 60
I am an ancient reluctant conscript, 102
I am Elizabeth Umpstead, dead at seventy-five years of age . . . , 164
I am making a Cartoon of a Woman, 184
I am singing to you, 104
I am The Great White Way of the city, 175
I am the nigger, 168
“I am the People, the Mob,” 173
I am the people—the mob—the crowd—the mass, 173
I asked the Mayor of Gary about the 12-hour day and the 7-day week, 61
I could love you, 74
I don’t know how he came, 147
I felt as if I had three hearts, 159
I have been watching the war map slammed up for advertising in front of the newspaper office, 107
I have often thought I should like to be hanged, 266
I have seen, 54
I heard a woman’s lips, 11
I know a Jew fish crier down on Maxwell Street with a voice like a north wind blowing over corn stubble in January, 5
I makes my livin’ washin’, 162
I saluted a nobody, 241
I sat with a dynamiter at supper in a German saloon eating steak and onions, 8
I saw Man, the man-hunter, 169
I shall foot it, 246
“I Should Like to Be Hanged on a Summer Afternoon,” 266
I waited today for a freight train to pass, 56
I was a boy when I heard three red words, 194
I was bom in the morning of the world, 222
I was bom on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of its women, gave me a song and a slogan, 176
I wish to God I never saw you, Mag, 6
If I should pamphleteer twenty years against royalists, 152
If you get enough money, 165
“Illinois Farmer,” 146
“Implications,” 15
“In a Back Alley,” 79
In a hole-in-a-wall on Halsted Street sits a gypsy woman, 14
In Abraham Lincoln’s city, 79