Cornhuskers

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Cornhuskers (1918)
by Carl Sandburg

Released by Henry Holt Publishers, the 103 poems that form this 1918 collection earned Sandburg the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. This book is available in spoken word format. Soundfiles for each chapter are linked to in the chapter headers.

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CORNHUSKERS

BY

CARL SANDBURG

NEW YORK

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

1918

Copyright, 1918,

by

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

THE QUINN & BODEN CO. PRESS

RAHWAY, N. J.

TO

JANET AND MARGARET

Acknowledgement is set forth that some things here were first printed in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, The Chicago Daily News, and the service of the Newspaper Enterprise Association.—C.S.

CONTENTS

CORNHUSKERS	PAGE
Prairie	3
River Roads	12
Prairie Waters by Night	13
Early Moon	14
Laughing Corn	15
Autumn Movement	16
Falltime	17
Illinois Farmer	18
Hits and Runs	19
Village in Late Summer	20
Blizzard Notes	21
Sunset From Omaha Hotel Window	22
Still Life	23
Band Concert	24
Three Pieces on the Smoke of Autumn⁠	25
Localities	27
Caboose Thoughts	29
Alix	31
Potato Blossom Songs and Jigs	33
Loam	37
Manitoba Childe Roland	38
Wilderness	40
PERSONS HALF KNOWN
Chicago Poet	45
Fire-Logs	46
Repetitions	47
Adelaide Crapsey	48
Young Bullfrogs	49
Memoir of a Proud Boy	50
Bilbea	52
Southern Pacific	53
Washerwoman	54
Portrait of a Motor Car	55
Girl in a Cage	56
Buffalo Bill	57
Sixteen Months	58
Child Margaret	59
Singing Nigger	60
LEATHER LEGGINGS
Leather Leggings	63
Prayers of Steel	65
Always the Mob	66
Jabberers	68
Cartoon	69
Interior	70
Street Window	72
Palladiums	73
Clocks	74
Legends	75
Psalm of Those Who Go Forth Before Daylight	77
Horses and Men in Rain	78
Questionnaire	79
Near Keokuk	80
Slants at Buffalo, New York	81
Flat Lands	82
Lawyer	83
Three Balls	84
Chicks	85
Humdrum	86
Joliet	87
Knucks	88
Testament	90
HAUNTS
Valley Song	93
In Tall Grass	94
Upstairs	95
Monosyllabic	96
Films	97
Kreisler	98
The Sea Hold	99
Goldwing Moth	100
Loin Cloth	101
Hemlock and Cedar	102
Summer Shirt Sale	103
Medallion	104
Bricklayer Love	105
Ashurnatsirpal III	106
Mammy Hums	107
Bringers	108
Crimson Rambler	109
Haunts	110
Have Me	111
Fire Dreams	112
Baby Face	114
The Year	115
Drumnotes	116
Moonset	117
Garden Wireless	118
Handfuls	119
Cool Tombs	120
SHENANDOAH
Shenandoah	123
New Feet	124
Old Osawatomie	125
Grass	126
Flanders	127
Gargoyle	128
Old Timers	129
House	130
John Ericsson Day Memorial, 1918	131
Remembered Women	133
Out of White Lips	134
Memoir	135
A Million Young Workmen, 1915	137
Smoke	138
A Tall Man	139
The Four Brothers	141

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.

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