Chicago Poems (1916) was Carl Sandburg’s first-published book of verse. Written in the poet’s unique, personal idiom, these poems embody a soulfulness, lyric grace, and a love of and compassion for the common man that earned Sandburg a reputation as a ‘poet of the people.’
Among the dozens of poems in this collection are such well-known verses as ‘Chicago, ‘ ‘Fog, ‘ ‘To a Contemporary Bunkshooter, ‘ ‘Who Am I?’ and ‘Under the Harvest Moon, ‘ as well as numerous others on themes of war, immigrant life, death, love, loneliness, and the beauty of nature. These early poems reveal the simplicity of style, honesty, and vision that characterized all of Sandburg’s work and earned him enormous popularity in the 1920s and ’30s and a Pulitzer prize in poetry in 1951.
Table of Content
CHICAGO POEMSChicago
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 Frog
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
I. Chickens
II. Used Up
III. Home
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
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