Washerwoman

Gypsy Mother

Implications

Graceland

Skyscraper

The People, Yes, No. 81

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, No. 57

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

Open Letter to the Poet Archibald MacLeish Who Has Forsaken His Massachusetts Farm to Make Propaganda for Freedom

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, No. 55

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, Nos. 1, 4, 20, 37, 58, 78, 107

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

Introduction

Carl Sandburg came to widespread public attention with the publication of his poem “Chicago” in Harriet Monroe’s Poetry magazine in 1914. The opening lines are a vivid picture of the city as Sandburg saw it: