Author: Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

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A teamster's farewell (Good-by now to the streets and the clash of wheels and locking hubs) - M. Smith
A. E. F. (There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart)
M. Hennagin: There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart

Alike and ever alike - M. Hennagin [x] *
Anna Imroth (Cross the hands over the breast here - so) SWE
Anna Imroth (Korsa händerna här över bröstet så) - G. Paulson ENG SWE *
Baby face (White Moon comes in on a baby face)
R. Crawford-Seeger: White Moon

Baby Toes (There is a blue star, Janet) - C. Bricken
Back Yard (Shine on, O moon of summer) - S. Raphling
Be Careful What You Say - L. Pfautsch [x] *
Beat, old heart - V. Weigl [x] *
Because I have called to you
W. Golde: Calls

Bees and a honeycornb in the dried head
R. Crawford-Seeger, W. Mellers: In Tall Grass

Bend low again, night of summer stars
E. Warren: Summer Stars

Boy heart of Johnny Jones -- aching to-day?
I. Gertz: Buffalo Bill

Bricklayer Love (I thought of killing myself because I am only a bricklayer) - R. Hughes
Broken sky - R. Green [x] *
Buffalo Bill (Boy heart of Johnny Jones -- aching to-day? ) - I. Gertz
Cahoots (Play it across the table ) - H. Swanson
Calls (Because I have called to you) - W. Golde
Changing Light Winds [x] *
D. Epstein: Windscape

Chatter of birds two by two raises a night song
E. Helm, J. Wolfe: Prairie Waters by Night

Chicago (Hog Butcher for the World) - M. Klein, R. Morse, L. Ultan
Chick Lorimer: Gone (Everybody loved Chick Lorimer in our town) - A. Wilder
Clark Street Bridge (Dust of the feet) - J. Beach
Come on, Superstition (Come on, superstition, and get my goat) - E. Russ [x] *
Come on, superstition, and get my goat (Come on, superstition, and get my goat) [x] *
E. Russ: Come on, Superstition

Come on, superstition, and get my goat [x] *
E. Russ: Come on, Superstition

Come you, cartoonists
S. Raphling: Halsted Street Car

Cool prayers (I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat) - L. Foss
Cool Tombs (When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs) - W. Mellers, S. Raphling
Cool your heels on the rail of an observation car
H. Swanson: Still Life

Cross the hands over the breast here - so SWE
Daybreak - P. Pisk [x] *
Death comes once, let it be easy
W. Mellers: Finish

Death is stronger than all the governments
V. Weigl: Death snips proud men by the nose

Death snips proud men (Death is stronger than all the governments)
V. Weigl: Death snips proud men by the nose

Death snips proud men by the nose (Death is stronger than all the governments) - V. Weigl
Desolate and lone
R. Hughes, H. Matthews, M. Smith, R. Strassburg, C. Van Buskirk, J. Wolfe: Lost

Dust of the feet
J. Beach: Clark Street Bridge

Everybody loved Chick Lorimer in our town
R. Hughes, S. Raphling: Gone
A. Wilder: Chick Lorimer: Gone

Fall yellow (I spot the hills) - D. Epstein
Finish (Death comes once, let it be easy) - W. Mellers
Fins (Plow over bars of sea plowing) - V. Weigl
Fog (The fog comes on little cat feet) - D. Epstein, R. Green, R. Harris, A. Hovhaness, H. Irwin, H. Matthews, W. Nash, S. Raphling, P. Schwartz, L. Lady Somervell, L. Stone, L. Stone
For the gladness here where the sun is shining
H. Mollincone: Our prayer of thanks

For You (The peace of great doors be for you )
J. Wallach: Incantation

Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind (The woman named To-morrow)
J. Kantor: Playthings of the wind
E. Erickson: Lamentations

From the Far Corners (From the four corners of the earth) - V. Weigl [x] *
From the four corners of the earth (From the four corners of the earth) [x] *
V. Weigl: From the Far Corners

From the four corners of the earth [x] *
V. Weigl: From the Far Corners

Gone (Everybody loved Chick Lorimer in our town) - R. Hughes, S. Raphling
Good Morning, America [x] *
E. Warren, E. Warren: Great memories
V. Weigl: Sea sunsets

Good-by now to the streets and the clash of wheels and locking hubs
M. Smith: A teamster's farewell

Grass (Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo) - F. Hart, F. Heath
Great memories - E. Warren [x] *
Halsted Street Car (Come you, cartoonists) - S. Raphling
Hands here - M. Hennagin [x] *
Happiness (I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life) - G. Bachlund
Haze gold - P. Glass [x] *
Hog Butcher for the World
M. Klein, R. Morse, L. Ultan: Chicago

Home Thoughts (The sea rocks have a green moss) - R. Crawford-Seeger
Huntington sleeps in a house six feet long
G. Bachlund: Southern Pacific

I am a copper wire slung in the air
S. Raphling: Under a telephone pole

I am glad God saw Death
H. Swanson, G. Youse: The Junk Man

I am singing to you
M. Hennagin, V. Weigl: Killers

I am the people (I am the people -- the mob -- the crowd -- the mass ) - H. Weiss
I am the people -- the mob -- the crowd -- the mass
H. Weiss: I am the people

I am the people, the mob (I am the people -- the mob -- the crowd -- the mass )
H. Weiss: I am the people

I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life
G. Bachlund: Happiness

I spot the hills
D. Epstein: Fall yellow

I thought of killing myself because I am only a bricklayer
R. Hughes: Bricklayer Love

I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat
L. Foss, L. Foss, N. Lockwood: Prairie

I wish to God I never saw you, Mag
C. Ives, S. Kagen, S. Raphling: Mag

In Tall Grass (Bees and a honeycornb in the dried head ) - R. Crawford-Seeger, W. Mellers
In the folded and quiet yesterdays (In the folded and quiet yesterdays) - E. Robinson [x] *
In the folded and quiet yesterdays [x] *
E. Robinson: In the folded and quiet yesterdays

Incantation (The peace of great doors be for you ) - J. Wallach
Joy (Let a joy keep you) - R. Crawford-Seeger
Killers (I am singing to you) - M. Hennagin, V. Weigl
Korsa händerna här över bröstet så ENG SWE *
G. Paulson: Anna Imroth

Lamentations (The woman named To-morrow) - E. Erickson
Lay me on an anvil, O God
R. Hughes: The Prayer of Steel
R. Crawford-Seeger, P. Christiansen, J. Spencer: Prayers of Steel

Let a joy keep you
R. Crawford-Seeger: Joy

Listen a while, the moon is a lovely woman, a lonely woman
W. Schuman: Night Stuff

Little Girl, Be Careful What You Say [x] *
L. Pfautsch: Be Careful What You Say

Loam - R. Crawford-Seeger [x]
[No Title] (Long ago I learned how to sleep ) - F. Koch
Long ago I learned how to sleep
F. Koch: Long ago I learned how to sleep
P. Glass: Wind Song

Lost (Desolate and lone) - R. Hughes, H. Matthews, M. Smith, R. Strassburg, C. Van Buskirk, J. Wolfe
Love is a deep and a dark and a lonely - R. Starer [x] *
Mag (I wish to God I never saw you, Mag) - C. Ives, S. Kagen, S. Raphling
Mamie (Mamie beat her head against the bars of a little Indiana) - S. Raphling
Mamie beat her head against the bars of a little Indiana
S. Raphling: Mamie

Maybe (Maybe he believes me, maybe not ) - J. Musto, S. Kagen, S. Raphling *
Maybe he believes me, maybe not *
J. Musto, S. Kagen, S. Raphling: Maybe

Mill-Doors (You never come back ) - N. Dello Joio
Monoton (The monotone of the rain is beautiful) - G. Davisson, N. Lockwood
Monotone (The monotone of the rain is beautiful)
G. Davisson, N. Lockwood: Monoton

My shirt is a token and symbol
E. Lang: My Shirt, Song for a Sailor

My Shirt, Song for a Sailor (My shirt is a token and symbol) - E. Lang
Night Stuff (Listen a while, the moon is a lovely woman, a lonely woman) - W. Schuman
Nightsong - P. Pisk [x] *
Nocturn cabbage - R. Green [x] *
Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard (Stuff of the moon) - D. Epstein
Oh Angel (On Lang Syne Plantation they had a prayer) - R. Starer [x] *
Omaha (Red barns and red heifers spot the green ) - E. Bacon
On Lang Syne Plantation they had a prayer (On Lang Syne Plantation they had a prayer) [x] *
R. Starer: Oh Angel

On Lang Syne Plantation they had a prayer [x] *
R. Starer: Oh Angel

On up the sea slant
H. Clarke: Sea slant

Our prayer of thanks (For the gladness here where the sun is shining) - H. Mollincone
Passers-by (Passers-by, out of your many faces) - J. Beach
Passers-by, out of your many faces
J. Beach: Passers-by

People - M. Hennagin [x] *
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo
F. Hart, F. Heath: Grass

Play it across the table
H. Swanson: Cahoots

Playthings of the wind (The woman named To-morrow) - J. Kantor
Plow over bars of sea plowing
V. Weigl: Fins

Prairie (I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat) - L. Foss, N. Lockwood
Prairie Waters by Night (Chatter of birds two by two raises a night song) - E. Helm, J. Wolfe
Prayers of Steel (Lay me on an anvil, O God ) - R. Crawford-Seeger, P. Christiansen, J. Spencer
Rat Riddles (There was a gray rat looked at me ) - R. Crawford-Seeger *
Red barns and red heifers spot the green
E. Bacon: Omaha

Red-Headed Restaurant Cashier (Shake back your hair, O red-headed girl) - K. Rathaus
Ripe corn - W. Mellers [x] *
Sea chest (There was a woman loved a man) - J. Musto *
Sea slant (On up the sea slant) - H. Clarke
Sea sunsets - V. Weigl [x] *
Shake back your hair, O red-headed girl
K. Rathaus: Red-Headed Restaurant Cashier

Shine on, O moon of summer
S. Raphling: Back Yard

Shirt (My shirt is a token and symbol)
E. Lang: My Shirt, Song for a Sailor

Sketch (The shadows of the ships) - M. Smith
Small Homes (The green bug sleeps in the white lily ear ) - G. Bachlund, M. Oliver *
Southern Pacific (Huntington sleeps in a house six feet long) - G. Bachlund
Special starlight - H. Haslam [x] *
Spring carries surprises - W. Mellers [x] *
Spring grass - P. Glass, R. Kreutz, V. Weigl [x] *
Stars - E. Gerschefski [x] *
Still Life (Cool your heels on the rail of an observation car) - H. Swanson
Stuff of the moon
D. Epstein: Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard

Summer grass - P. Glass, W. Mellers, R. Green, P. Pisk [x] *
Summer Stars (Bend low again, night of summer stars) - E. Warren
Sunset - R. Crawford-Seeger [x]
Sunsets [x] *
E. Lang: Sunsets, Song for a Sailor

Sunsets, Song for a Sailor - E. Lang [x] *
Tawny (These are the tawny days: your face comes back)
E. Warren: Tawny Days

Tawny Days (These are the tawny days: your face comes back) - E. Warren
The fog comes on little cat feet
D. Epstein, R. Green, R. Harris, A. Hovhaness, H. Irwin, H. Matthews, W. Nash, S. Raphling, P. Schwartz, L. Lady Somervell, L. Stone, L. Stone: Fog

The gong of Time [x] *
R. Starer: The gong of Time

The green bug sleeps in the white lily ear *
G. Bachlund, M. Oliver: Small Homes

The grip of the ice is gone now
E. Warren: The Wind Sings Welcome

The hangman at home (What does the hangman think about ) - J. Musto
The Junk Man (I am glad God saw Death) - H. Swanson, G. Youse
The monotone of the rain is beautiful
G. Davisson, N. Lockwood: Monoton

The peace of great doors be for you
J. Wallach: Incantation

The Prayer of Steel (Lay me on an anvil, O God ) - R. Hughes
The sea rocks have a green moss
R. Crawford-Seeger: Home Thoughts

The shadows of the ships
M. Smith: Sketch

The stone goes straight
S. Raphling: Washington Monument by night

The strong men (The strong men keep coming on) - W. Lundquist
The strong men keep coming on
W. Lundquist: The strong men
C. Bricken, C. Dougherty, E. Ferguson, S. Kagen, A. Malotte: Upstream

The Wind Sings Welcome (The grip of the ice is gone now) - E. Warren
The Wind Sings Welcome in Early Spring (The grip of the ice is gone now)
E. Warren: The Wind Sings Welcome

The woman named To-morrow
J. Kantor: Playthings of the wind
E. Erickson: Lamentations

Theme in yellow (I spot the hills)
D. Epstein: Fall yellow

There is a blue star, Janet
C. Bricken: Baby Toes

There is only one man - M. Hennagin [x] *
There was a gray rat looked at me *
R. Crawford-Seeger: Rat Riddles

There was a woman loved a man *
J. Musto: Sea chest

[No Title] (There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart) - M. Hennagin
There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart
M. Hennagin: There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart

These are the tawny days: your face comes back
E. Warren: Tawny Days

Timber moon - S. Raphling [x] *
Under a telephone pole (I am a copper wire slung in the air) - S. Raphling
Under the harvest moon (Under the harvest moon) - C. Naginski
Under the harvest moon
C. Naginski: Under the harvest moon

Uplands in May (Wonder as of old things) - D. Epstein
Upstream (The strong men keep coming on) - C. Bricken, C. Dougherty, E. Ferguson, S. Kagen, A. Malotte
Washington Monument by night (The stone goes straight) - S. Raphling
What does the hangman think about
J. Musto: The hangman at home

When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs
W. Mellers, S. Raphling: Cool Tombs

White Moon (White Moon comes in on a baby face) - R. Crawford-Seeger
White Moon comes in on a baby face
R. Crawford-Seeger: White Moon

Wind Song (Long ago I learned how to sleep ) - P. Glass
Windscape - D. Epstein [x] *
Winter gold - P. Glass [x] *
Wonder as of old things
D. Epstein: Uplands in May

You never come back
N. Dello Joio: Mill-Doors

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