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The complete poems of Carl Sandburg
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MacLeish, Archibald,1892-1982 writer of introduction
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From the Book - [First edition].
Chicago poems
Cornhuskers
Smoke and steel
Slabs of the sunburnt West
Good morning, America
The people, yes
New section.
From the Book - Revised and expanded edition.
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: 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.
From the Book - Rev. and expanded ed.
Chicago poems
Cornhuskers
Smoke and steel
Slabs of the sunburnt West
Good morning, America
The people, yes
New section.
From the Book - Rev. and expanded ed.
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
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
New feet
Old Osawatomie
Grass
Flanders
Gargoyle
Old timers
House
John Ericsson Day Memorial
Remembered women
Out of white lips
Memoir
A million young workmen
Smoke
A tall man
The four brothers
Smoke and steel
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
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 til 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
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 cain 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
Carn 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
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.
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