In this outstanding collection of seventy-seven poems, Sandburg eloquently celebrates the themes that engaged him as a poet for more than half a century of writing- life, love, and death. Strongly lyrical, these intensely honest poems testify to...
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In this outstanding collection of seventy-seven poems, Sandburg eloquently celebrates the themes that engaged him as a poet for more than half a century of writing- life, love, and death. Strongly lyrical, these intensely honest poems testify to human courage, frailty, and tenderness and to the enduring wonders of nature Front Cover -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- Other Books by this Author -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Honey and Salt -- Pass, Friend -- Alone and Not Alone -- Wingtip -- Love Is a Deep and a Dark and a Lonely -- Almanac -- Biography -- Anecdote of Hemlock for Two Athenians -- Dreaming Fool -- Lief the Lucky -- Bird Footprint -- Cahokia -- Buyers and Sellers -- City Number -- Chromo -- The Evening Sunsets Witness and Pass On -- Deep Sea Wandering -- Call the Next Witness -- Early Copper -- Atlas, How Have You Been? -- Cheap Rent -- Elm Buds -- Child Face -- Fog Numbers -- Evening Questions -- Fifty-Fifty -- Evening Sea Wind -- Forgotten Wars -- God Is No Gentleman -- Hunger and Cold -- Foxgloves -- Harvest -- Fame If Not Fortune -- Impasse -- Is Wisdom a Lot of Language? -- Keepsake Boxes -- Impossible Iambics -- Lackawanna Twilight -- If So Hap May Be -- Kisses, Can You Come Back Like Ghosts? -- Lake Michigan Morning -- New Weather -- Lesson -- Metamorphosis -- Love Beyond Keeping -- Moods -- Moon Rondeau -- Little Word, Little White Bird -- Offering and Rebuff -- Morning Glory Blue -- High Moments -- Mummy -- Old Hokusai Print -- One Parting -- Ever a Seeker -- Old Music for Quiet Hearts -- Personalia -- The Gong of Time -- Prairie Woodland -- Shadows Fall Blue on the Mountains -- Quotations -- Skyscrapers Stand Proud -- Pool of Bethesda -- First Sonata for Karlen Paula -- Thou Art Like a Flower -- Solo for Saturday Night Guitar -- Rose Bawn -- Speech -- Runaway Colors -- Out of the Rainbow End -- Sun Dancer -- Themes in Contrast -- Two Fish -- Smoke Shapes -- Three Shrines -- Variations on a Theme -- Timesweep
