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  1. Publisher’s Note
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. CHICAGO
  5. IMAGES
  6. POEMS OF PROTEST
  7. LOVE POEMS
  8. LINCOLN
  9. ANTI-WAR AND WAR POEMS
  10. PORTRAITS
  11. AFRICAN-AMERICANS
  12. POET OF THE PEOPLE
  13. MUSINGS
  14. POETRY DEFINITIONS
  15. A Note on the Text
  16. Chicago
  17. Chicago
  18. Halsted Street Car
  19. The Workingmen
  20. Fish Crier
  21. Muckers
  22. Mill-Doors
  23. Mag
  24. Onion Days
  25. Dynamiter
  26. Mamie
  27. Working Girls
  28. Trafficker
  29. Harrison Street Court
  30. Gone
  31. Soiled Dove
  32. Old Woman
  33. Washerwoman
  34. Gypsy Mother
  35. Implications
  36. Graceland
  37. Skyscraper
  38. The People, Yes
  39. The Windy City
  40. Images
  41. Fog
  42. Sketch
  43. Lost
  44. Flux
  45. Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard
  46. Window
  47. Sunset from Omaha Hotel Window
  48. Prairie Waters by Night
  49. Bee Song
  50. Bumble Bee Days
  51. Jan Kubelik
  52. Chinese Letters or Korean
  53. Painted Fishes
  54. These Valleys Seem Old
  55. Three Pieces on the Smoke of Autumn
  56. Poems of Protest
  57. Billy Sunday
  58. The Eastland
  59. Anna Imroth
  60. The Hammer
  61. Child of the Romans
  62. Southern Pacific
  63. ’Boes
  64. Taking on Suds Men Talk
  65. Glimmer
  66. Jerry
  67. Horses and Men in Rain
  68. Hoodlums
  69. The Mayor of Gary
  70. Blacklisted
  71. The Machine
  72. Legal Midnight Hour
  73. Love Poems
  74. Paula
  75. White Shoulders
  76. June
  77. Poppies
  78. Margaret
  79. Baby Toes
  80. Helga
  81. Spanish
  82. You and a Sickle Moon
  83. In Blue Gown and in Black Satin Gown
  84. She Held Herself a Deep Pool for Him
  85. An Interwoven Man and Woman Talked
  86. Troth Tryst
  87. Offering and Rebuff
  88. Hellcat
  89. Bilbea
  90. Lincoln
  91. Fire-Logs
  92. In a Back Alley
  93. Knucks
  94. The People, Yes
  95. The Long Shadow of Lincoln: A Litany
  96. Abraham Lincoln’s Father and Mother*
  97. Lincoln*
  98. Mr. Lincoln and His Gloves*
  99. Journey and Oath*
  100. Untitled*
  101. Anti-War and War Poems
  102. House
  103. Old Timers
  104. Ready to Kill
  105. Killers
  106. Planked Whitefish
  107. Murmurings in a Field Hospital
  108. Buttons
  109. Salvage
  110. Wars
  111. A Million Young Workmen, 1915
  112. In The Shadow of the Palace
  113. The Four Brothers
  114. Nearer Than Any Mother’s Heart Wishes
  115. The Man with the Broken Fingers
  116. Forgotten Wars
  117. Grass
  118. Portraits
  119. To a Poet*
  120. Memoir of a Proud Boy
  121. Napoleon
  122. Hawthorne
  123. Mr. Blake’s Chariots
  124. Evidence As to a She Devil
  125. Arms
  126. Eugene V. Debs
  127. Ezra*
  128. Good Babies Make Good Poems
  129. From an Illinois Prairie Hut
  130. Letters to Dead Imagists
  131. Illinois Farmer
  132. Osawatomie
  133. Grieg Being Dead
  134. Sherwood Anderson
  135. Jack London and O. Henry
  136. Without the Cane and the Derby
  137. To the Ghost of John Milton
  138. Mysterious Biography
  139. Mr. Longfellow and His Boy
  140. Dan
  141. African-Americans
  142. Jazz Fantasia
  143. Sojourner Truth Speaking
  144. The People, Yes
  145. Cleo
  146. Black Prophetess
  147. Elizabeth Umpstead
  148. Sayings of Henry Stephens
  149. Nigger
  150. Man, the Man-Hunter
  151. Poet of the People
  152. I Am the People, the Mob
  153. A Reporter in Debt
  154. My People
  155. Poems Done on a Late Night Car
  156. Prairie
  157. Cartoon
  158. Smoke and Steel
  159. The Lawyers Know Too Much
  160. The Liars
  161. Threes
  162. Red-Headed Restaurant Cashier
  163. Lines Written for Gene Kelly to Dance To
  164. Slabs of the Sunburnt West
  165. A Couple
  166. The People, Yes
  167. Timesweep
  168. Musings
  169. Chicago Poet
  170. Phizzog
  171. Wilderness
  172. Broken-Face Gargoyles
  173. Aprons of Silence
  174. The Road and the End
  175. Style
  176. Potato Blossom Songs and Jigs
  177. Cool Tombs
  178. Old Osawatomie
  179. Hats
  180. Accomplished Facts
  181. Buffalo Dusk
  182. The Abracadabra Boys
  183. Our Hells
  184. Moonlight and Maggots
  185. Biography
  186. Breathing Tokens
  187. Monday, One P.M.
  188. Government
  189. I Should Like to Be Hanged on a Summer Afternoon
  190. Poetry Definitions
  191. Tentative (First Model) Definitions of Poetry
  192. Acknowledgments
  193. Original Publication Sources
  194. Selected Bibliography
  195. Index of Titles and First Lines
  196. About the Editors
  197. The Works of Carl Sandburg
  198. Copyright
  199. About the Publisher

WILLENE HENDRICK is an independent scholar who lives in Urbana, Illinois. With George Hendrick she has published On the Illinois Frontier: Dr. Hiram Rutherford, 1840–1848; Katherine Anne Porter, revised edition; The Savour of Salt: A Henry Salt Anthology; Ham Jones, Antebellum Southern Humorist: An Anthology; and Billy Sunday and Other Poems, a collection of previously unpublished, uncollected, and unexpurgated works of Carl Sandburg.

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The Works of Carl Sandburg

POETRY

Billy Sunday and Other Poems (edited by George and Willene Hendrick)

Breathing Tokens (edited by Margaret Sandburg)

Chicago Poems

The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Cornhuskers

Good Morning, America

Harvest Poems

Honey and Salt

The People, Yes

Slabs of the Sunburnt West

Smoke and Steel

NONFICTION

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (two volumes)

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years (one-volume edition)

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (four volumes)

Always the Young Strangers

The American Songbag

The Chicago Race Riots

Home Front Memo

The Letters of Carl Sandburg (edited by Herbert Mitgang)

Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow (documented by Paul M. Angle)

Potato Face

The Sandburg Range

Steichen the Photographer

Storm over the Land

FICTION

Remembrance Rock

FOR CHILDREN

Abe Lincoln Grows Up

Arithmetic

Early Moon

More Rootabagas

Prairie-Town Boy

Rainbows Are Made

Rootabaga Pigeons

Rootabaga Stories

The Sandburg Treasury

The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It

Wind Song

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Copyright

SELECTED POEMS. Copyright © 2022 by Maurice C. Greenbaum and Philip G. Carson as Trustees for the Carl Sandburg Family Trust. Compilation, Introduction, and Notes copyright © 2022 by George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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Originally published in 1996 by Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Cover photograph © 2022 The Estate of Dana Steichen / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Digital Edition SEPTEMBER 2022 ISBN: 978-0-06-328307-7

Version 06112022

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