Carl Sandburg

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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Carl Sandburg

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Topic

Anti-war War

Author

Carl Sandburg

Source

The People, Yes

Medium

Poem

Genre

Epic poem

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Sandburg, Carl. The People, Yes. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1936, no. 23.

The fog comes
On little cat feet.
It sits looking
Over harbour and city
On silent haunches
And then moves on.

Carl Sandburg

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Topic

Fog Weather

Author

Carl Sandburg

Source

Fog

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Sandburg, Carl. "Fog." Chicago Poems. Henry Holt and Company, 1916, I. 1.

Current Citation

Sandburg, Carl. "Fog." The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003, I. 1.

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work-
I am the grass; I cover all.

Carl Sandburg

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Topic

Casualties of war War

Author

Carl Sandburg

Source

Grass

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Sandburg, Carl. "Grass." Cornhuskers. Henry Holt and Company, 1918, I. 1.

Current Citation

Sandburg, Carl. "Grass." The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003, I. 1.

The people will live on.
The learning and blundering people will live on.
They will be tricked and sold and again sold
And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.

Carl Sandburg

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Topic

Societal collapse The human condition

Author

Carl Sandburg

Source

The People, Yes

Medium

Poem

Genre

Epic poem

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Sandburg, Carl. The People, Yes. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1936, no. 107.