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 World (37 Poems)
Hope Is A Tattered Flag (Carl Sandburg Poems)
Hope is a tattered flag and a dream of time.Hope is a heartspun word, the rainbow, the shadblow in whiteThe ...
Sheep (Carl Sandburg Poems)
Thousands of sheep, soft-footed, black-nosed sheep-- one by one going up the hill and over the fence--one by one four-footed ...
Smoke and Steel (Carl Sandburg Poems)
SMOKE of the fields in spring is one, Smoke of the leaves in autumn another. Smoke of a steel-mill roof ...
Statistics (Carl Sandburg Poems)
NAPOLEON shifted, Restless in the old sarcophagus And murmured to a watchguard: "Who goes there?" "Twenty-one million men, Soldiers, armies, ...
The Four Brothers (Carl Sandburg Poems)
MAKE war songs out of these; Make chants that repeat and weave. Make rhythms up to the ragtime chatter of ...
The Has-Been (Carl Sandburg Poems)
A STONE face higher than six horses stood five thousand years gazing at the world seeming to clutch a secret. ...
The Liars (Carl Sandburg Poems)
(March, 1919)A LIAR goes in fine clothes. A liar goes in rags. A liar is a liar, clothes or no ...
The Sins of Kalamazoo (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE SINS of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson. The sins of Kalamazoo are a convict gray, a dishwater drab. ...
Two Items (Carl Sandburg Poems)
STRONG rocks hold up the riksdag bridge . always strong river waters shoving their shoulders against them . In the ...
Wilderness (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THERE is a wolf in me . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . a red tongue for raw meat . ...
Prairie (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I WAS born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of ...
Alix (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE MARE Alix breaks the world's trotting record one day. I see her heels flash down the dust of an ...
At a Window (Carl Sandburg Poems)
Give me hunger, O you gods that sit and give The world its orders. Give me hunger, pain and want, ...
Chicks (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE CHICK in the egg picks at the shell, cracks open one oval world, and enters another oval world. "Cheep ...
Dynamiter (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I SAT with a dynamiter at supper in a German saloon eating steak and onions. And he laughed and told ...
Hoodlums (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I AM a hoodlum, you are a hoodlum, we and all of us are a world of hoodlums-maybe so. I ...
Ready to Kill (Carl Sandburg Poems)
TEN minutes now I have been looking at this. I have gone by here before and wondered about it. This ...
Jaws (Carl Sandburg Poems)
SEVEN nations stood with their hands on the jaws of death. It was the first week in August, Nineteen Hundred ...
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, ...
Killers (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I AM singing to you Soft as a man with a dead child speaks; Hard as a man in handcuffs, ...
I Am The People, The Mob (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I AM the people--the mob--the crowd--the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done ...
Last Answers (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I wrote a poem on the mist And a woman asked me what I meant by it. I had thought ...
Dream Girl (Carl Sandburg Poems)
YOU will come one day in a waver of love, Tender as dew, impetuous as rain, The tan of the ...
Losers (Carl Sandburg Poems)
IF I should pass the tomb of Jonah I would stop there and sit for awhile; Because I was swallowed ...
The Shovel Man (Carl Sandburg Poems)
ON the street Slung on his shoulder is a handle half way across, Tied in a big knot on the ...
Mask (Carl Sandburg Poems)
Fling your red scarf faster and faster, dancer. It is summer and the sun loves a million green leaves, masses ...
Waiting (Carl Sandburg Poems)
TODAY I will let the old boat stand Where the sweep of the harbor tide comes in To the pulse ...
Murmurings in a field hospital (Carl Sandburg Poems)
[They picked him up in the grass where he had lain two days in the rain with a piece of ...
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 ...