Chicago Poems (1916) was Carl Sandburg's first-published book of verse. Written in the poet's unique, personal idiom, these poems embody a soulfulness, lyric grace, and a love of and compassion for the common man that earned Sandburg a reputation as a "poet of the people."Among the dozens of poems in this collection are such well-known verses as "Chicago," "Fog," "To a Contemporary Bunkshooter," "Who Am I?" and "Under the Harvest Moon," as well as numerous others on themes of war, immigrant life, death, love, loneliness, and the beauty of nature. These early poems reveal the simplicity of style, honesty, and vision that characterized all of Sandburg's work and earned him enormous popularity in the 1920s and '30s and a Pulitzer prize in poetry in 1951.

CHICAGO POEMS Chicago Sketch Masses Lost The Harbor They Will say Mill-Doors Halsted Street Car Clark Street Bridge Passers-by The Walking Man of Rodin Subway The Shovel Man A Teamster's Farewell Fish Crier Picnic Boat Happiness Muckers Blacklisted Graceland Child of the Romans The Right to Grief Mag Onion Days Population Drifts Cripple A Fence Anna Imroth Working Girls Mamie Personality Cumulatives To Certain Journeymen Chamfort Limited The Has-Been In a Back Alley A Coin Dynamiter Ice Handler Jack Fellow Citizens Nigger Two Neighbors Style "To Beachey, 1912" Under a Hat Rim In a Breath Bath Bronzes Dunes On the Way Ready to Kill To a Contemporary Bunkshooter SkyscraperHANDFULS Fog Pool Jan Kubelik Choose Crimson Whitelight Flux Kin White Shoulders Losses TrothsWAR POEMS (1914-1915) Killers Among the Red Guns Iron Murmurings in a Field Hospital Statistics Fight Buttons And They Obey Jaws Salvage WarsTHE ROAD AND THE END The Road and the End Choices Graves Aztec Mask Momus The Answer To a Dead Man Under A Sphinx Who Am I? Our Prayer of ThanksFOGS AND FIRES At a Window Under the Harvest Moon The Great Hunt Monotone Joy Shirt Aztec Two Back Yard On the Breakwater Mask Pearl Frog I Sang Follies June Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard Hydrangeas Theme in Yellow Between Two Hills Last Answers Window Young Sea Bones Pals Child Poppies Child Moon MargaretSHADOWS Poems Done on a Late Night Car I. Chickens II. Used Up III. Home It is Much Trafficker Harrison Street Court Soiled Dove Jungheimer's GoneOTHER DAYS (1900-1910) Dreams in the Dusk Docks All Day Long Waiting From the Shore Uplands in May Dream Girl Plowboy Broadway Old Woman Noon Hour Boes Under a Telephone Pole "I am the People, the Mob" Government Languages Letters to Dead Imagists Sheep The Red Son The Mist The Junk Man Silver Nails Gypsy