A Father To His Son (Carl Sandburg Poems)
A father sees his son nearing manhood.What shall he tell that son?"Life is hard; be steel; be a rock."And this ...
Carl Sandburg Poems on Money & Wealth (18 Poems)
The Red Son (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I LOVE your faces I saw the many years I drank your milk and filled my mouth With your home ...
They Buy With an Eye to Looks (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE FINE cloth of your love might be a fabric of Egypt, Something Sinbad, the sailor, took away from robbers, ...
Dynamiter (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I SAT with a dynamiter at supper in a German saloon eating steak and onions. And he laughed and told ...
Fellow Citizens (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I DRANK musty ale at the Illinois Athletic Club with the millionaire manufacturer of Green River butter one night And ...
Government (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE Government--I heard about the Government and I went out to find it. I said I would look closely at ...
Half Moon in a High Wind (Carl Sandburg Poems)
MONEY is nothing now, even if I had it, O mooney moon, yellow half moon, Up over the green pines ...
Mohammed Bek Hadjetlache (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THIS Mohammedan colonel from the Caucasus yells with his voice and wigwags with his arms. The interpreter translates, "I was ...
Places (Carl Sandburg Poems)
ROSES and gold For you today, And the flash of flying flags. I will have Ashes, Dust in my hair, ...
Proud and Beautiful (Carl Sandburg Poems)
AFTER you have spent all the money modistes and manicures and mannikins will take for fixing you over into a ...
Skyscraper (Carl Sandburg Poems)
BY day the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and has a soul. Prairie and valley, streets of the ...
Nights Nothings Again (Carl Sandburg Poems)
WHO knows what I know when I have asked the night questions and the night has answered nothing only the ...
Under A Telephone Pole (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I AM a copper wire slung in the air, Slim against the sun I make not even a clear line ...
A Coin (Carl Sandburg Poems)
YOUR western heads here cast on money, You are the two that fade away together, Partners in the mist. Lunging ...
Balloon Faces (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE BALLOONS hang on wires in the Marigold Gardens. They spot their yellow and gold, they juggle their blue and ...
Caboose Thoughts (Carl Sandburg Poems)
IT'S going to come out all right-do you know? The sun, the birds, the grass-they know. They get along-and we'll ...
Carlovingian Dreams (Carl Sandburg Poems)
COUNT these reminiscences like money. The Greeks had their picnics under another name. The Romans wore glad rags and told ...
Curse of a Rich Polish Peasant on His Sister Who Ran Away With a Wild Man (Carl Sandburg Poems)
FELIKSOWA has gone again from our house and this time for good, I hope. She and her husband took with ...