A Million Young Work Men (Carl Sandburg Poems)
A million young workmen straight and strong lay stiff on the grass and roads,And the million are now under soil ...
Carl Sandburg Poems on Youth (23 Poems)
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, ...
White Ash (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THERE is a woman on Michigan Boulevard keeps a parrot and goldfish and two white mice. She used to keep ...
Winter Milk (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE MILK drops on your chin, Helga, Must not interfere with the cranberry red of your cheeks Nor the sky ...
Working Girls (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE working girls in the morning are going to work-- long lines of them afoot amid the downtown stores and ...
Yes, the Dead Speak to Us (Carl Sandburg Poems)
YES, the Dead speak to us. This town belongs to the Dead, to the Dead and to the Wilderness. Back ...
Young Sea (Carl Sandburg Poems)
The sea is never still. It pounds on the shore Restless as a young heart, Hunting. The sea speaks And ...
Savoir Faire (Carl Sandburg Poems)
CAST a bronze of my head and legs and put them on the king's street. Set the cast of me ...
Shenandoah (Carl Sandburg Poems)
IN the Shenandoah Valley, one rider gray and one rider blue, and the sun on the riders wondering. Piled in ...
Sixteen Months (Carl Sandburg Poems)
ON the lips of the child Janet float changing dreams. It is a thin spiral of blue smoke, A morning ...
Chicago (Carl Sandburg Poems)
Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, ...
Skyscraper (Carl Sandburg Poems)
BY day the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and has a soul. Prairie and valley, streets of the ...
Mill-Doors (Carl Sandburg Poems)
YOU never come back. I say good-by when I see you going in the doors, The hopeless open doors that ...
Bath (Carl Sandburg Poems)
A MAN saw the whole world as a grinning skull and cross-bones. The rose flesh of life shriveled from all ...
A Million Young Workmen, 1915 (Carl Sandburg Poems)
A MILLION young workmen straight and strong lay stiff on the grass and roads, And the million are now under ...
Always the Mob (Carl Sandburg Poems)
JESUS emptied the devils of one man into forty hogs and the hogs took the edge of a high rock ...
Broken-face Gargoyles (Carl Sandburg Poems)
ALL I can give you is broken-face gargoyles. It is too early to sing and dance at funerals, Though I ...
Child (Carl Sandburg Poems)
The young child, Christ, is straight and wise And asks questions of the old men, questions Found under running water ...
How Yesterday Looked (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE HIGH horses of the sea broke their white riders On the walls that held and counted the hours The ...
Killers (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I AM singing to you Soft as a man with a dead child speaks; Hard as a man in handcuffs, ...
Let Love Go On (Carl Sandburg Poems)
LET it go on; let the love of this hour be poured out till all the answers are made, the ...
Potato Blossom Songs and Jigs (Carl Sandburg Poems)
RUM tiddy um, tiddy um, tiddy um tum tum. My knees are loose-like, my feet want to sling their selves. ...
Prairie (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I WAS born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of ...