Author: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)

Text Compilations

• Chicago Poems
• Cornhuskers
• Good Morning, America
• Honey and Salt
• Slabs of the Sunburnt West
• Smoke and Steel
• The People, Yes
• Wind Song

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• A. E. F. (There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart) (from Smoke and Steel)
• Alike and ever alike (Everywhere is love and love-making, weddings and babies) - Michael Hennagin *
• Anna Imroth (Cross the hands over the breast here - so) SWE
• Anna Imroth (Korsa händerna här över bröstet så) - Gustaf Paulson *
• Are you happy? It’s the only - Simon Sargon (Snatch of Sliphorn Jazz)
• A storm of white petals (from Cornhuskers) - Gary Bachlund (The year)
• A swirl in the air where your head was once, here - Michael Ippolito (Swirl)
• A teamster's farewell (Good-by now to the streets and the clash of wheels and locking hubs) (from Chicago Poems)
• A teamster's farewell (Good-by now to the streets and the clash of wheels and locking hubs) (from Chicago Poems) - Melville Smith
• Baby face (White Moon comes in on a baby face)
• Baby Toes (There is a blue star, Janet) (from Smoke and Steel)
• Baby Toes (There is a blue star, Janet) (from Smoke and Steel) - Carl Ernest Bricken
• Back Yard (Shine on, O moon of summer) (from Chicago Poems)
• Back Yard (Shine on, O moon of summer) (from Chicago Poems) - Sam Raphling
• Beat, old heart, these are the old bars (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) (Beat, Old Heart)
• Beat, old heart, these are the old bars (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - Vally Weigl, née Pick (Beat, old heart)
• Beat, Old Heart (Beat, old heart, these are the old bars) (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West)
• Beat, old heart (Beat, old heart, these are the old bars) (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - Vally Weigl, née Pick
• Be Careful What You Say () - Lloyd Alvin Pfautsch [x] *
• Because I have called to you (from Smoke and Steel) (Calls)
• Because I have called to you (from Smoke and Steel) - Walter H. Golde (Calls)
• Bees and a honeycornb in the dried head (from Cornhuskers) (In Tall Grass)
• Bees and a honeycornb in the dried head (from Cornhuskers) - Ruth Crawford-Seeger, Wilfrid Howard Mellers (In Tall Grass)
• Bend low again, night of summer stars (from Smoke and Steel) (Summer Stars)
• Bend low again, night of summer stars (from Smoke and Steel) - Gary Bachlund, Elinor Remick Warren (Summer Stars)
• Between two hills (Between two hills) (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund, Juliana Hall
• Between two hills (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund, Juliana Hall (Between two hills)
• Black horizons, come up - Stanley Grill (Black Horizons )
• Black Horizons (Black horizons, come up) - Stanley Grill
• Boy heart of Johnny Jones -- aching to-day? (from Cornhuskers) (Buffalo Bill)
• Boy heart of Johnny Jones -- aching to-day? (from Cornhuskers) - Irving Gertz (Buffalo Bill)
• Bricklayer Love (I thought of killing myself because I am only a bricklayer) (from Cornhuskers)
• Bricklayer Love (I thought of killing myself because I am only a bricklayer) (from Cornhuskers) - Rupert Hughes
• Broken sky () (from Good Morning, America) [x] *
• Broken sky () (from Good Morning, America) - Ray Green [x] *
• Buffalo Bill (Boy heart of Johnny Jones -- aching to-day?) (from Cornhuskers)
• Buffalo Bill (Boy heart of Johnny Jones -- aching to-day?) (from Cornhuskers) - Irving Gertz
• Bury this old Illinois farmer with respect (Illinois Farmer)
• Bury this old Illinois farmer with respect - Rick Sowash (Ohio Farmer)
• Bury this old Ohio farmer with respect (Illinois Farmer)
• Cahoots (Play it across the table) (from Smoke and Steel)
• Cahoots (Play it across the table) (from Smoke and Steel) - Gary Bachlund, Howard Swanson
• Calls (Because I have called to you) (from Smoke and Steel)
• Calls (Because I have called to you) (from Smoke and Steel) - Walter H. Golde
• Chamfort (There's Chamfort. He's a sample) (from Chicago Poems)
• Chamfort (There's Chamfort. He's a sample) (from Chicago Poems) - Kurt Erickson
• Changing Light Winds () [x] *
• Chatter of birds two by two raises a night song (from Cornhuskers) (Prairie Waters by Night)
• Chatter of birds two by two raises a night song (from Cornhuskers) - Everett Helm, Jacques Wolfe (Prairie Waters by Night)
• Chicago (Hog Butcher for the World) (from Chicago Poems)
• Chicago (Hog Butcher for the World) (from Chicago Poems) - Maynard Klein, Richard W. Morse, Lloyd Ultan
• Chick Lorimer: Gone (Everybody loved Chick Lorimer in our town) (from Chicago Poems) - Alec Wilder
• Child moon (The child’s wonder) - Juliana Hall
• Choose (The single clenched fist lifted and ready) (from Chicago Poems)
• Choose (The single clenched fist lifted and ready) (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund
• Clark Street Bridge (Dust of the feet) (from Chicago Poems)
• Clark Street Bridge (Dust of the feet) (from Chicago Poems) - John Parsons Beach
• Come on, superstition, and get my goat (Come on, superstition, and get my goat) (from The People, Yes) [x] *
• Come on, superstition, and get my goat (from The People, Yes) [x] * (Come on, superstition, and get my goat)
• Come on, superstition, and get my goat (from The People, Yes) [x] * - Elmo Russ (Come on, Superstition)
• Come on, Superstition (Come on, superstition, and get my goat) (from The People, Yes) - Elmo Russ [x] *
• Come you, cartoonists (from Chicago Poems) (Halsted Street Car)
• Come you, cartoonists (from Chicago Poems) - Sam Raphling (Halsted Street Car)
• Cool prayers (I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat) (from Cornhuskers) - Lukas Foss
• Cool Tombs (When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot) (from Cornhuskers)
• Cool Tombs (When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot) (from Cornhuskers) - Wilfrid Howard Mellers, Sam Raphling
• Cool your heels on the rail of an observation car (from Cornhuskers) (Still Life)
• Cool your heels on the rail of an observation car (from Cornhuskers) - Howard Swanson (Still Life)
• Cross the hands over the breast here - so SWE (Anna Imroth)
• Daybreak () (from Wind Song) [x] *
• Daybreak () (from Wind Song) - Paul Amadeus Pisk [x] *
• Death comes once, let it be easy (from Smoke and Steel) (Finish)
• Death comes once, let it be easy (from Smoke and Steel) - Wilfrid Howard Mellers (Finish)
• Death is stronger than all the governments (from Smoke and Steel) - Gary Bachlund, Vally Weigl, née Pick (Death snips proud men by the nose)
• Death is stronger than all the governments (from Smoke and Steel) (Death snips proud men)
• Death snips proud men by the nose (Death is stronger than all the governments) (from Smoke and Steel) - Gary Bachlund, Vally Weigl, née Pick
• Death snips proud men (Death is stronger than all the governments) (from Smoke and Steel)
• Desolate and lone (from Chicago Poems) (Lost)
• Desolate and lone (from Chicago Poems) - Daron Aric Hagen, Rupert Hughes, Holon Matthews, Melville Smith, Robert Strassburg, Carl Van Buskirk, Jacques Wolfe (Lost)
• Dunes (What do we see here in the sand dunes of the white moon alone with our thoughts, Bill) - Michael Ippolito
• Dust of the feet (from Chicago Poems) (Clark Street Bridge)
• Dust of the feet (from Chicago Poems) - John Parsons Beach (Clark Street Bridge)
• Everybody loved Chick Lorimer in our town (from Chicago Poems) - Alec Wilder (Chick Lorimer: Gone)
• Everybody loved Chick Lorimer in our town (from Chicago Poems) (Gone)
• Everybody loved Chick Lorimer in our town (from Chicago Poems) - Kurt Erickson, Rupert Hughes, Sam Raphling (Gone)
• Everywhere is love and love-making, weddings and babies * - Michael Hennagin (Alike and ever alike)
• Fall yellow (I spot the hills) (from Chicago Poems) - David M. Epstein
• Finish (Death comes once, let it be easy) (from Smoke and Steel)
• Finish (Death comes once, let it be easy) (from Smoke and Steel) - Wilfrid Howard Mellers
• Fins (Plow over bars of sea plowing) (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West)
• Fins (Plow over bars of sea plowing) (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - Vally Weigl, née Pick
• Fling your red scarf faster and faster, dancer - Juliana Hall (Mask)
• Flux (Sand of the sea runs red) - Michael Ippolito
• Fog (The fog comes) (from Chicago Poems)
• Fog (The fog comes) (from Chicago Poems) - Ernst Bacon, David M. Epstein, Ray Green, Roy Harris, Alan Hovhaness, Hoyt Irwin, Holon Matthews, W. Gifford Nash, Sam Raphling, Paul Schwartz, T. Somervell, Lady, Louise P. Stone
• Follies (Shaken) - Juliana Hall
• For the gladness here where the sun is shining (from Chicago Poems) (Our prayer of thanks)
• For the gladness here where the sun is shining (from Chicago Poems) - Henry Mollincone (Our prayer of thanks)
• For You (The peace of great doors be for you) (from Smoke and Steel)
• Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind (The woman named To-morrow) (from Smoke and Steel)
• Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind (The woman named To-morrow) (from Smoke and Steel) - Stephen Paulus, Michael Tilson Thomas
• From the Far Corners (From the four corners of the earth) (from The People, Yes) - Vally Weigl, née Pick [x] *
• From the four corners of the earth (from The People, Yes) [x] * - Vally Weigl, née Pick (From the Far Corners)
• From the four corners of the earth (From the four corners of the earth) (from The People, Yes) [x] *
• From the four corners of the earth (from The People, Yes) [x] * (From the four corners of the earth)
• Gone (Everybody loved Chick Lorimer in our town) (from Chicago Poems)
• Gone (Everybody loved Chick Lorimer in our town) (from Chicago Poems) - Kurt Erickson, Rupert Hughes, Sam Raphling
• Good-by now to the streets and the clash of wheels and locking hubs (from Chicago Poems) (A teamster's farewell)
• Good-by now to the streets and the clash of wheels and locking hubs (from Chicago Poems) - Melville Smith (A teamster's farewell)
• Good-by now to the streets and the clash of wheels and locking hubs (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund (Sobs en route to a Penitentiary)
• Good Morning, America () (from Good Morning, America) [x] *
• Good Morning, America () (from Good Morning, America) - Elinor Remick Warren [x] *
• Government (The Government -- I heard about the Government and) (from Chicago Poems)
• Government (The Government -- I heard about the Government and) (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund
• Grass (Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo) (from Cornhuskers)
• Grass (Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo) (from Cornhuskers) - Frederic Patton Hart, Fenno Heath, Ty Kroll
• Great memories () (from Good Morning, America) - Elinor Remick Warren [x] *
• Halsted Street Car (Come you, cartoonists) (from Chicago Poems)
• Halsted Street Car (Come you, cartoonists) (from Chicago Poems) - Sam Raphling
• Hands here, hands gnarled as thorntree roots * - Michael Hennagin (Hands here)
• Hands here (Hands here, hands gnarled as thorntree roots) - Michael Hennagin *
• Happiness (I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness) (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund
• Haze gold (Sun, you may send your haze gold) (from Good Morning, America) *
• Haze gold (Sun, you may send your haze gold) (from Good Morning, America) - Philip Glass, Juliana Hall *
• Hog Butcher for the World (from Chicago Poems) (Chicago)
• Hog Butcher for the World (from Chicago Poems) - Maynard Klein, Richard W. Morse, Lloyd Ultan (Chicago)
• Home Thoughts (The sea rocks have a green moss) (from Smoke and Steel)
• Home thoughts (The sea rocks have a green moss) (from Smoke and Steel) - Ruth Crawford-Seeger
• Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio (It's a jazz affair, drum crashes and coronet razzes) (from Smoke and Steel)
• Honky Tonk (It's a jazz affair, drum crashes and coronet razzes) (from Smoke and Steel) - Gary Bachlund
• Huntington sleeps in a house six feet long (from Cornhuskers) (Southern Pacific)
• Huntington sleeps in a house six feet long (from Cornhuskers) - Gary Bachlund (Southern Pacific)
• I am a copper wire slung in the air (from Chicago Poems) (Under a telephone pole)
• I am a copper wire slung in the air (from Chicago Poems) - Sam Raphling (Under a telephone pole)
• I am glad God saw Death (from Chicago Poems) (The Junk Man)
• I am glad God saw Death (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund, Howard Swanson, Glad Robinson Youse (The Junk Man)
• I am riding on a limited express (Limited)
• I am riding on a limited express - William Mayer (Limited)
• I am singing to you (from Chicago Poems) (Killers)
• I am singing to you (from Chicago Poems) - Michael Hennagin, Vally Weigl, née Pick (Killers)
• I am the people -- the mob -- the crowd -- the mass (from Chicago Poems) (I am the people, the mob)
• I am the people -- the mob -- the crowd -- the mass (from Chicago Poems) - Helen L. Weiss (I am the people)
• I am the people, the mob (I am the people -- the mob -- the crowd -- the mass) (from Chicago Poems)
• I am the people (I am the people -- the mob -- the crowd -- the mass) (from Chicago Poems) - Helen L. Weiss
• I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund (Happiness)
• If the oriole calls like last year - Juliana Hall (The south wind says so)
• I have love (from Chicago Poems) (Losses)
• I have love (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund (Losses)
• I have seen/ the old gods go
• I have seen - Gary Bachlund (The Hammer)
• Illinois Farmer (Bury this old Illinois farmer with respect)
• Incantation (The peace of great doors be for you) (from Smoke and Steel) - Joelle Wallach
• In Tall Grass (Bees and a honeycornb in the dried head) (from Cornhuskers)
• In Tall Grass (Bees and a honeycornb in the dried head) (from Cornhuskers) - Ruth Crawford-Seeger, Wilfrid Howard Mellers
• In the folded and quiet yesterdays (In the folded and quiet yesterdays) (from The People, Yes) [x] *
• In the folded and quiet yesterdays (In the folded and quiet yesterdays) (from The People, Yes) - Earl Robinson [x] *
• In the folded and quiet yesterdays (from The People, Yes) [x] * (In the folded and quiet yesterdays)
• In the folded and quiet yesterdays (from The People, Yes) [x] * - Earl Robinson (In the folded and quiet yesterdays)
• In the loam we sleep (from Cornhuskers) (Loam)
• In the loam we sleep (from Cornhuskers) - Gary Bachlund, Ruth Crawford-Seeger (Loam)
• In the old deep sing-song [x] * (Old deep sing-song)
• In the old deep sing-song [x] * - Elaine Hugh-Jones (Old deep sing-song)
• I sang to you and the moon (I sang to you and the moon) (from Chicago Poems) - Kurt Erickson
• I sang to you and the moon (from Chicago Poems) - Kurt Erickson (I sang to you and the moon)
• I sang to you and the moon (from Chicago Poems) (I sang)
• I sang to you and the moon (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund, Michael Ippolito (I sang)
• I sang (I sang to you and the moon) (from Chicago Poems)
• I sang (I sang to you and the moon) (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund, Michael Ippolito
• I saw the famous man eating soup (from Smoke and Steel) (Soup)
• I saw the famous man eating soup (from Smoke and Steel) - Gary Bachlund (Soup)
• I spot the hills (from Chicago Poems) - David M. Epstein (Fall yellow)
• I spot the hills (from Chicago Poems) (Theme in yellow)
• I spot the hills (from Chicago Poems) - Juliana Hall (Theme in yellow)
• I thought of killing myself because I am only a bricklayer (from Cornhuskers) (Bricklayer Love)
• I thought of killing myself because I am only a bricklayer (from Cornhuskers) - Rupert Hughes (Bricklayer Love)
• It's a jazz affair, drum crashes and coronet razzes (from Smoke and Steel) (Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio)
• It's a jazz affair, drum crashes and coronet razzes (from Smoke and Steel) - Gary Bachlund (Honky Tonk)
• I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat (from Cornhuskers) - Lukas Foss (Cool prayers)
• I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat (from Cornhuskers) (Prairie)
• I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat (from Cornhuskers) - Lukas Foss, Normand Lockwood (Prairie)
• I wish to God I never saw you, Mag (from Chicago Poems) (Mag)
• I wish to God I never saw you, Mag (from Chicago Poems) - Charles Edward Ives, Sergius Kagen, Sam Raphling (Mag)
• Jack was a swarthy, swaggering son-of-a-gun (from Chicago Poems) (Jack)
• Jack was a swarthy, swaggering son-of-a-gun (from Chicago Poems) - Kurt Erickson (Jack)
• Jack (Jack was a swarthy, swaggering son-of-a-gun) (from Chicago Poems)
• Jack (Jack was a swarthy, swaggering son-of-a-gun) (from Chicago Poems) - Kurt Erickson
• Joy (Let a joy keep you) (from Chicago Poems)
• Joy (Let a joy keep you) (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund, Ruth Crawford-Seeger
• Killers (I am singing to you) (from Chicago Poems)
• Killers (I am singing to you) (from Chicago Poems) - Michael Hennagin, Vally Weigl, née Pick
• Korsa händerna här över bröstet så * - Gustaf Paulson (Anna Imroth)
• Kreisler (Sell me a violin, mister, of old mysterious wood) (from Cornhuskers) - Stanley Grill
• Lamentations (The woman named To-morrow) (from Smoke and Steel) - Elaine M. Erickson
• Lay me on an anvil, O God (from Cornhuskers) (Prayers of Steel)
• Lay me on an anvil, O God (from Cornhuskers) - Paul Christiansen, Ruth Crawford-Seeger, James Houston Spencer (Prayers of Steel)
• Lay me on an anvil, O God (from Cornhuskers) - Rupert Hughes (The Prayer of Steel)
• Leaves of poplars pick Japanese prints against the west - Michael Ippolito (Moonset)
• Let a joy keep you (from Chicago Poems) (Joy)
• Let a joy keep you (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund, Ruth Crawford-Seeger (Joy)
• Limited (I am riding on a limited express)
• Limited (I am riding on a limited express) - William Mayer
• Listen a while, the moon is a lovely woman, a lonely woman, lost in a (from Smoke and Steel) (Night Stuff)
• Listen a while, the moon is a lovely woman, a lonely woman, lost in a (from Smoke and Steel) - Michael Ippolito, William Howard Schuman (Night Stuff)
• Little Girl, Be Careful What You Say () [x] *
• Loam (In the loam we sleep) (from Cornhuskers)
• Loam (In the loam we sleep) (from Cornhuskers) - Gary Bachlund, Ruth Crawford-Seeger
• Long ago I learned how to sleep (from Smoke and Steel) (Wind Song)
• Long ago I learned how to sleep (from Smoke and Steel) - Philip Glass (Wind Song)
• Long ago I learned how to sleep (from Smoke and Steel) - Frederick Koch
• Look out how you use proud words (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) (Primer Lesson)
• Look out how you use proud words (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - Gary Bachlund (Primer Lesson)
• Losses (I have love) (from Chicago Poems)
• Losses (I have love) (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund
• Lost (Desolate and lone) (from Chicago Poems)
• Lost (Desolate and lone) (from Chicago Poems) - Daron Aric Hagen, Rupert Hughes, Holon Matthews, Melville Smith, Robert Strassburg, Carl Van Buskirk, Jacques Wolfe
• Love is a deep and a dark and a lonely () (from Honey and Salt) [x] *
• Love is a deep and a dark and a lonely () (from Honey and Salt) - Robert Starer [x] *
• Mag (I wish to God I never saw you, Mag) (from Chicago Poems)
• Mag (I wish to God I never saw you, Mag) (from Chicago Poems) - Charles Edward Ives, Sergius Kagen, Sam Raphling
• Mamie beat her head against the bars of a little Indiana (from Chicago Poems) (Mamie)
• Mamie beat her head against the bars of a little Indiana (from Chicago Poems) - Sam Raphling (Mamie)
• Mamie (Mamie beat her head against the bars of a little Indiana) (from Chicago Poems)
• Mamie (Mamie beat her head against the bars of a little Indiana) (from Chicago Poems) - Sam Raphling
• Manual system (Mary has a thingamajig clamped on her ears) (from Smoke and Steel)
• Manual system (Mary has a thingamajig clamped on her ears) (from Smoke and Steel) - Gary Bachlund
• Mary has a thingamajig clamped on her ears (from Smoke and Steel) (Manual system)
• Mary has a thingamajig clamped on her ears (from Smoke and Steel) - Gary Bachlund (Manual system)
• Mask (Fling your red scarf faster and faster, dancer) - Juliana Hall
• Maybe he believes me, maybe not (from Good Morning, America) * (Maybe)
• Maybe he believes me, maybe not (from Good Morning, America) * - Sergius Kagen, John Musto, Sam Raphling (Maybe)
• Maybe (Maybe he believes me, maybe not) (from Good Morning, America) *
• Maybe (Maybe he believes me, maybe not) (from Good Morning, America) - Sergius Kagen, John Musto, Sam Raphling *
• Mill-Doors (You never come back) (from Chicago Poems)
• Mill-Doors (You never come back) (from Chicago Poems) - Norman Dello Joio
• Monotone (The monotone of the rain is beautiful) (from Chicago Poems)
• Monotone (The monotone of the rain is beautiful) (from Chicago Poems) - Michael Ippolito
• Monoton (The monotone of the rain is beautiful) (from Chicago Poems) - Genevieve Davisson, Normand Lockwood
• Moonset (Leaves of poplars pick Japanese prints against the west) - Michael Ippolito
• My shirt is a token and symbol (from Smoke and Steel) - Edith M. Lang (My Shirt, Song for a Sailor)
• My shirt is a token and symbol (from Smoke and Steel) (Shirt)
• My Shirt, Song for a Sailor (My shirt is a token and symbol) (from Smoke and Steel) - Edith M. Lang
• Nightsong () (from Wind Song) [x] *
• Nightsong () (from Wind Song) - Paul Amadeus Pisk [x] *
• Night Stuff (Listen a while, the moon is a lovely woman, a lonely woman, lost in a) (from Smoke and Steel)
• Night Stuff (Listen a while, the moon is a lovely woman, a lonely woman, lost in a) (from Smoke and Steel) - Michael Ippolito, William Howard Schuman
• Nocturn cabbage () (from Good Morning, America) [x] *
• Nocturn cabbage () (from Good Morning, America) - Ray Green [x] *
• Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard (Stuff of the moon) (from Chicago Poems)
• Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard (Stuff of the moon) (from Chicago Poems) - David M. Epstein
• Oh Angel (On Lang Syne Plantation they had a prayer) (from The People, Yes) - Robert Starer [x] *
• Ohio Farmer (Bury this old Illinois farmer with respect) - Rick Sowash
• Old deep sing-song (In the old deep sing-song) [x] *
• Old deep sing-song (In the old deep sing-song) - Elaine Hugh-Jones [x] *
• Omaha (Red barns and red heifers spot the green) (from Smoke and Steel)
• Omaha (Red barns and red heifers spot the green) (from Smoke and Steel) - Ernst Bacon
• On Lang Syne Plantation they had a prayer (from The People, Yes) [x] * - Robert Starer (Oh Angel)
• On Lang Syne Plantation they had a prayer (On Lang Syne Plantation they had a prayer) (from The People, Yes) [x] *
• On Lang Syne Plantation they had a prayer (from The People, Yes) [x] * (On Lang Syne Plantation they had a prayer)
• On up the sea slant (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) (Sea slant)
• On up the sea slant (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - Henry Leland Clarke (Sea slant)
• Open the door now - Juliana Hall (Pearl fog)
• Our prayer of thanks (For the gladness here where the sun is shining) (from Chicago Poems)
• Our prayer of thanks (For the gladness here where the sun is shining) (from Chicago Poems) - Henry Mollincone
• Passers-by, out of your many faces (from Chicago Poems) (Passers-by)
• Passers-by (Passers-by) (from Chicago Poems)
• Passers-by (Passers-by) (from Chicago Poems) - John Parsons Beach
• Passers-by (from Chicago Poems) (Passers-by)
• Passers-by (from Chicago Poems) - John Parsons Beach (Passers-by)
• Pearl fog (Open the door now) - Juliana Hall
• People, flung wide and far, born into toil, struggle, blood and dreams * - Michael Hennagin (People)
• People (People, flung wide and far, born into toil, struggle, blood and dreams) - Michael Hennagin *
• Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo (from Cornhuskers) (Grass)
• Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo (from Cornhuskers) - Frederic Patton Hart, Fenno Heath, Ty Kroll (Grass)
• Play it across the table (from Smoke and Steel) (Cahoots)
• Play it across the table (from Smoke and Steel) - Gary Bachlund, Howard Swanson (Cahoots)
• Playthings of the wind (The woman named To-morrow) (from Smoke and Steel) - Joseph Kantor
• Plow over bars of sea plowing (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) (Fins)
• Plow over bars of sea plowing (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - Vally Weigl, née Pick (Fins)
• Prairie Waters by Night (Chatter of birds two by two raises a night song) (from Cornhuskers)
• Prairie Waters by Night (Chatter of birds two by two raises a night song) (from Cornhuskers) - Everett Helm, Jacques Wolfe
• Prairie (I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat) (from Cornhuskers)
• Prairie (I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat) (from Cornhuskers) - Lukas Foss, Normand Lockwood
• Prayers of Steel (Lay me on an anvil, O God) (from Cornhuskers)
• Prayers of Steel (Lay me on an anvil, O God) (from Cornhuskers) - Paul Christiansen, Ruth Crawford-Seeger, James Houston Spencer
• Primer Lesson (Look out how you use proud words) (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West)
• Primer Lesson (Look out how you use proud words) (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - Gary Bachlund
• Rat Riddles (There was a gray rat looked at me) (from Good Morning, America) *
• Rat Riddles (There was a gray rat looked at me) (from Good Morning, America) - Ruth Crawford-Seeger *
• Red barns and red heifers spot the green (from Smoke and Steel) (Omaha)
• Red barns and red heifers spot the green (from Smoke and Steel) - Ernst Bacon (Omaha)
• Red-Headed Girl (Shake back your hair, O red-headed girl) (from Smoke and Steel) - Gary Bachlund
• Red-Headed Restaurant Cashier (Shake back your hair, O red-headed girl) (from Smoke and Steel)
• Red-Headed Restaurant Cashier (Shake back your hair, O red-headed girl) (from Smoke and Steel) - Karol Rathaus
• Ripe corn () (from Good Morning, America) [x] *
• Ripe corn () (from Good Morning, America) - Juliana Hall, Wilfrid Howard Mellers [x] *
• Sand of the sea runs red - Michael Ippolito (Flux)
• Sea chest (There was a woman loved a man) (from Good Morning, America) *
• Sea chest (There was a woman loved a man) (from Good Morning, America) - John Musto *
• Sea slant (On up the sea slant) (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West)
• Sea slant (On up the sea slant) (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - Henry Leland Clarke
• Sea sunsets () (from Good Morning, America) - Vally Weigl, née Pick [x] *
• Sell me a violin, mister, of old mysterious wood (from Cornhuskers) - Stanley Grill (Kreisler)
• Shake back your hair, O red-headed girl (from Smoke and Steel) - Gary Bachlund (Red-Headed Girl)
• Shake back your hair, O red-headed girl (from Smoke and Steel) (Red-Headed Restaurant Cashier)
• Shake back your hair, O red-headed girl (from Smoke and Steel) - Karol Rathaus (Red-Headed Restaurant Cashier)
• Shaken - Juliana Hall (Follies)
• Shine on, O moon of summer (from Chicago Poems) (Back Yard)
• Shine on, O moon of summer (from Chicago Poems) - Sam Raphling (Back Yard)
• Shirt (My shirt is a token and symbol) (from Smoke and Steel)
• Sketch (The shadows of the ships) (from Chicago Poems)
• Sketch (The shadows of the ships) (from Chicago Poems) - Melville Smith
• Small Homes (The green bug sleeps in the white lily ear) (from Good Morning, America) *
• Small Homes (The green bug sleeps in the white lily ear) (from Good Morning, America) - Gary Bachlund, Madra Oliver *
• Snatch of Sliphorn Jazz (Are you happy? It’s the only) - Simon Sargon
• Sobs en route to a Penitentiary (Good-by now to the streets and the clash of wheels and locking hubs) (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund
• Soup (I saw the famous man eating soup) (from Smoke and Steel)
• Soup (I saw the famous man eating soup) (from Smoke and Steel) - Gary Bachlund
• Southern Pacific (Huntington sleeps in a house six feet long) (from Cornhuskers)
• Southern Pacific (Huntington sleeps in a house six feet long) (from Cornhuskers) - Gary Bachlund
• Special starlight () [x] *
• Special starlight () - Herbert Haslam [x] *
• Splinter (The voice of the last cricket) *
• Splinter (The voice of the last cricket) - Juliana Hall *
• Spring carries surprises () (from Good Morning, America) - Wilfrid Howard Mellers [x] *
• Spring grass () (from Good Morning, America) [x] *
• Spring grass () (from Good Morning, America) - Philip Glass, Richard E. Kreutz, Vally Weigl, née Pick [x] *
• Stars () (from Wind Song) [x] *
• Stars () (from Wind Song) - Edwin Gerschefski [x] *
• Still Life (Cool your heels on the rail of an observation car) (from Cornhuskers)
• Still Life (Cool your heels on the rail of an observation car) (from Cornhuskers) - Howard Swanson
• Stuff of the moon (from Chicago Poems) (Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard)
• Stuff of the moon (from Chicago Poems) - David M. Epstein (Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard)
• Summer grass () (from Good Morning, America) [x] *
• Summer grass () (from Good Morning, America) - Philip Glass, Ray Green, Wilfrid Howard Mellers, Paul Amadeus Pisk [x] *
• Summer Stars (Bend low again, night of summer stars) (from Smoke and Steel)
• Summer Stars (Bend low again, night of summer stars) (from Smoke and Steel) - Gary Bachlund, Elinor Remick Warren
• Sunsets, Song for a Sailor () (from Good Morning, America) - Edith M. Lang [x] *
• Sunsets (There are sunsets that whisper a good-by)
• Sunsets (There are sunsets that whisper a good-by) - Ruth Crawford-Seeger
• Sunsets () (from Good Morning, America) [x] *
• Sun, you may send your haze gold (from Good Morning, America) * (Haze gold)
• Sun, you may send your haze gold (from Good Morning, America) * - Philip Glass, Juliana Hall (Haze gold)
• Swirl (A swirl in the air where your head was once, here) - Michael Ippolito
• Tawny Days (These are the tawny days: your face comes back) (from Smoke and Steel) - Elinor Remick Warren
• Tawny (These are the tawny days: your face comes back) (from Smoke and Steel)
• The child’s wonder - Juliana Hall (Child moon)
• The fog comes on little cat feet (from Chicago Poems) (Fog)
• The fog comes (from Chicago Poems) (Fog)
• The fog comes (from Chicago Poems) - Ernst Bacon, David M. Epstein, Ray Green, Roy Harris, Alan Hovhaness, Hoyt Irwin, Holon Matthews, W. Gifford Nash, Sam Raphling, Paul Schwartz, T. Somervell, Lady, Louise P. Stone (Fog)
• The gong of Time () (from Honey and Salt) [x] *
• The gong of Time () (from Honey and Salt) - Robert Starer [x] *
• The Government -- I heard about the Government and (from Chicago Poems) (Government)
• The Government -- I heard about the Government and (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund (Government)
• The green bug sleeps in the white lily ear (from Good Morning, America) * (Small Homes)
• The green bug sleeps in the white lily ear (from Good Morning, America) * - Gary Bachlund, Madra Oliver (Small Homes)
• The grip of the ice is gone now (from Smoke and Steel) (The Wind Sings Welcome in Early Spring)
• The grip of the ice is gone now (from Smoke and Steel) - Elinor Remick Warren (The Wind Sings Welcome)
• The Hammer (I have seen) - Gary Bachlund
• The hangman at home (What does the hangman think about) (from Smoke and Steel)
• The hangman at home (What does the hangman think about) (from Smoke and Steel) - John Musto
• The Junk Man (I am glad God saw Death) (from Chicago Poems)
• The Junk Man (I am glad God saw Death) (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund, Howard Swanson, Glad Robinson Youse
• The lawyers, Bob, know too much - Gary Bachlund (The Lawyers Know Too Much)
• The Lawyers Know Too Much (The lawyers, Bob, know too much) - Gary Bachlund
• Theme in yellow (I spot the hills) (from Chicago Poems)
• Theme in yellow (I spot the hills) (from Chicago Poems) - Juliana Hall
• The monotone of the rain is beautiful (from Chicago Poems) (Monotone)
• The monotone of the rain is beautiful (from Chicago Poems) - Michael Ippolito (Monotone)
• The monotone of the rain is beautiful (from Chicago Poems) - Genevieve Davisson, Normand Lockwood (Monoton)
• The peace of great doors be for you (from Smoke and Steel) (For You)
• The peace of great doors be for you (from Smoke and Steel) - Joelle Wallach (Incantation)
• The Prayer of Steel (Lay me on an anvil, O God) (from Cornhuskers) - Rupert Hughes
• There are sunsets that whisper a good-by (Sunsets)
• There are sunsets that whisper a good-by - Ruth Crawford-Seeger (Sunsets)
• There is a blue star, Janet (from Smoke and Steel) (Baby Toes)
• There is a blue star, Janet (from Smoke and Steel) - Carl Ernest Bricken (Baby Toes)
• There is only one man in the world * - Michael Hennagin (There is only one man)
• There is only one man (There is only one man in the world) - Michael Hennagin *
• There's Chamfort. He's a sample (from Chicago Poems) (Chamfort)
• There's Chamfort. He's a sample (from Chicago Poems) - Kurt Erickson (Chamfort)
• There was a gray rat looked at me (from Good Morning, America) * (Rat Riddles)
• There was a gray rat looked at me (from Good Morning, America) * - Ruth Crawford-Seeger (Rat Riddles)
• There was a woman loved a man (from Good Morning, America) * (Sea chest)
• There was a woman loved a man (from Good Morning, America) * - John Musto (Sea chest)
• There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart (from Smoke and Steel) (A. E. F.)
• There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart (from Smoke and Steel) - Michael Hennagin
• These are the tawny days: your face comes back (from Smoke and Steel) - Elinor Remick Warren (Tawny Days)
• These are the tawny days: your face comes back (from Smoke and Steel) (Tawny)
• The sea rocks have a green moss (from Smoke and Steel) (Home Thoughts)
• The sea rocks have a green moss (from Smoke and Steel) - Ruth Crawford-Seeger (Home thoughts)
• The sea-wash never ends (from Smoke and Steel) - Gary Bachlund (The sea-wash)
• The sea-wash (The sea-wash never ends) (from Smoke and Steel) - Gary Bachlund
• The shadows of the ships (from Chicago Poems) (Sketch)
• The shadows of the ships (from Chicago Poems) - Melville Smith (Sketch)
• The single clenched fist lifted and ready (from Chicago Poems) (Choose)
• The single clenched fist lifted and ready (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund (Choose)
• The south wind says so (If the oriole calls like last year) - Juliana Hall
• The stone goes straight (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) (Washington Monument by night)
• The stone goes straight (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - Sam Raphling (Washington Monument by night)
• The strong men keep coming on (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - Wray Lundquist (The strong men)
• The strong men keep coming on (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) (Upstream)
• The strong men keep coming on (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - Gary Bachlund, Carl Ernest Bricken, Celius Dougherty, Edwin Earle Ferguson, Sergius Kagen, Albert Hay Malotte (Upstream)
• The strong men (The strong men keep coming on) (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - Wray Lundquist
• The voice of the last cricket * (Splinter)
• The voice of the last cricket * - Juliana Hall (Splinter)
• The Wind Sings Welcome in Early Spring (The grip of the ice is gone now) (from Smoke and Steel)
• The Wind Sings Welcome (The grip of the ice is gone now) (from Smoke and Steel) - Elinor Remick Warren
• The woman named To-morrow (from Smoke and Steel) (Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind)
• The woman named To-morrow (from Smoke and Steel) - Stephen Paulus, Michael Tilson Thomas (Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind)
• The woman named To-morrow (from Smoke and Steel) - Elaine M. Erickson (Lamentations)
• The woman named To-morrow (from Smoke and Steel) - Joseph Kantor (Playthings of the wind)
• The year (A storm of white petals) (from Cornhuskers) - Gary Bachlund
• Timber moon () (from Good Morning, America) [x] *
• Timber moon () (from Good Morning, America) - Sam Raphling [x] *
• Under a telephone pole (I am a copper wire slung in the air) (from Chicago Poems)
• Under a telephone pole (I am a copper wire slung in the air) (from Chicago Poems) - Sam Raphling
• Under the harvest moon (Under the harvest moon) (from Chicago Poems)
• Under the harvest moon (Under the harvest moon) (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund, Juliana Hall, Charles Naginski
• Under the harvest moon (from Chicago Poems) (Under the harvest moon)
• Under the harvest moon (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund, Juliana Hall, Charles Naginski (Under the harvest moon)
• Uplands in May (Wonder as of old things) (from Chicago Poems)
• Uplands in May (Wonder as of old things) (from Chicago Poems) - David M. Epstein
• Upstream (The strong men keep coming on) (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West)
• Upstream (The strong men keep coming on) (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - Gary Bachlund, Carl Ernest Bricken, Celius Dougherty, Edwin Earle Ferguson, Sergius Kagen, Albert Hay Malotte
• Washington Monument by night (The stone goes straight) (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West)
• Washington Monument by night (The stone goes straight) (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - Sam Raphling
• What does the hangman think about (from Smoke and Steel) (The hangman at home)
• What does the hangman think about (from Smoke and Steel) - John Musto (The hangman at home)
• What do we see here in the sand dunes of the white moon alone with our thoughts, Bill - Michael Ippolito (Dunes)
• When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot (from Cornhuskers) (Cool Tombs)
• When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot (from Cornhuskers) - Wilfrid Howard Mellers, Sam Raphling (Cool Tombs)
• Whitelight (Your whitelight flashes the frost to-night) - Michael Ippolito
• White Moon comes in on a baby face (Baby face)
• White Moon comes in on a baby face - Ruth Crawford-Seeger (White Moon)
• White Moon (White Moon comes in on a baby face) - Ruth Crawford-Seeger
• White shoulders (Your white shoulders) (from Chicago Poems)
• White shoulders (Your white shoulders) (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund
• Windscape () - David M. Epstein [x] *
• Wind Song (Long ago I learned how to sleep) (from Smoke and Steel)
• Wind Song (Long ago I learned how to sleep) (from Smoke and Steel) - Philip Glass
• Winter gold () (from Good Morning, America) [x] *
• Winter gold () (from Good Morning, America) - Philip Glass [x] *
• Wonder as of old things (from Chicago Poems) (Uplands in May)
• Wonder as of old things (from Chicago Poems) - David M. Epstein (Uplands in May)
• You never come back (from Chicago Poems) (Mill-Doors)
• You never come back (from Chicago Poems) - Norman Dello Joio (Mill-Doors)
• Your whitelight flashes the frost to-night - Michael Ippolito (Whitelight)
• Your white shoulders (from Chicago Poems) (White shoulders)
• Your white shoulders (from Chicago Poems) - Gary Bachlund (White shoulders)

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