CHICAGO POEMS By Carl Sandburg New York Henry Holt and Company Copyright, 1916 By Henry Holt and Company To My Wife and Pal Lillian Steichen Sandburg PREFATORY NOTE Some of these writings were first printed in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Chicago. Permission to reprint is by courtesy of that publication. The writer wishes to thank Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson, editors of Poetry, and William Marion Reedy, editor of Reedy's Mirror, St. Louis, whose services have heightened what values of human address herein hold good. CONTENTS CHICAGO POEMS ..........................................................................1 CHICAGO ........................................................................................3 SKETCH ..........................................................................................5 MASSES ..........................................................................................6 LOST ..............................................................................................7 THE HARBOR...................................................................................8 THEY WILL SAY ..............................................................................9 MILL-DOORS.................................................................................10 HALSTED STREET CAR ...................................................................11 CLARK STREET BRIDGE..................................................................12 PASSERS-BY..................................................................................13 THE WALKING MAN OF RODIN .......................................................14 SUBWAY .......................................................................................15 THE SHOVEL MAN .........................................................................16 A TEAMSTER'S FAREWELL..............................................................17 FISH CRIER ...................................................................................18 PICNIC BOAT.................................................................................19 HAPPINESS ....................................................................................20 MUCKERS .....................................................................................21 BLACKLISTED................................................................................22 GRACELAND..................................................................................23 CHILD OF THE ROMANS .................................................................24 THE RIGHT TO GRIEF.....................................................................25 MAG.............................................................................................27 ONION DAYS .................................................................................28 POPULATION DRIFTS ......................................................................30 CRIPPLE ........................................................................................31 A FENCE .......................................................................................32 ANNA IMROTH...............................................................................33 WORKING GIRLS............................................................................34 MAMIE..........................................................................................35 PERSONALITY................................................................................36 CUMULATIVES...............................................................................37 TO CERTAIN JOURNEYMEN .............................................................38 CHAMFORT....................................................................................39 LIMITED........................................................................................40 THE HAS-BEEN ...........................................................................41 IN A BACK ALLEY .........................................................................42 A COIN .........................................................................................43 DYNAMITER ..................................................................................44 ICE HANDLER ................................................................................45 JACK.............................................................................................46 FELLOW CITIZENS .........................................................................47 NIGGER.........................................................................................49 TWO NEIGHBORS ...........................................................................50 STYLE...........................................................................................51 TO BEACHEY, 1912 .......................................................................52 UNDER A HAT RIM.........................................................................53 IN A BREATH .................................................................................54 BATH............................................................................................55 BRONZES ......................................................................................56 DUNES ..........................................................................................57 ON THE WAY.................................................................................58 READY TO KILL .............................................................................59 TO A CONTEMPORARY BUNKSHOOTER.............................................60 SKYSCRAPER .................................................................................63 HANDFULS....................................................................................67 FOG ..............................................................................................69 POOL ............................................................................................70 JAN KUBELIK ................................................................................71 CHOOSE ........................................................................................72 CRIMSON ......................................................................................73 WHITELIGHT .................................................................................74 FLUX ............................................................................................75 KIN ..............................................................................................76 WHITE SHOULDERS........................................................................77 LOSSES .........................................................................................78 TROTHS ........................................................................................79 WAR POEMS (1914-1915)..............................................................81 KILLERS........................................................................................83 AMONG THE RED GUNS ..................................................................84 IRON.............................................................................................85 MURMURINGS IN A FIELD HOSPITAL ...............................................86 STATISTICS ...................................................................................87 FIGHT ...........................................................................................88 BUTTONS ......................................................................................89 AND THEY OBEY ...........................................................................90 JAWS ............................................................................................91 SALVAGE ......................................................................................92 WARS ...........................................................................................93 THE ROAD AND THE END...........................................................95 THE ROAD AND THE END................................................................97 CHOICES .......................................................................................98 GRAVES ........................................................................................99 AZTEC MASK ..............................................................................100 MOMUS.......................................................................................101 THE ANSWER ..............................................................................103 TO A DEAD MAN .........................................................................104 UNDER........................................................................................105 A SPHINX....................................................................................106 WHO AM I? .................................................................................107 OUR PRAYER OF THANKS .............................................................108 FOGS AND FIRES .......................................................................109 AT A WINDOW.............................................................................111 UNDER THE HARVEST MOON ........................................................112 THE GREAT HUNT........................................................................113 MONOTONE .................................................................................114