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Carl Sandburg [1878-1967] USA
Ranked #71 in the top 380 poets
Votes 54%: 1859 up, 1602 down

Primarily free verse. Some critics noted that the illusion of poetry in his works was based more on the arrangement of the lines than on the lines themselves.

His success as a poet was limited to that of a follower of Whitman and of the Imagists. In Carl Sandburg, Karl Detzer says that in 1918 "admirers proclaimed him a latter-day Walt Whitman; objectors cried that their six-year-old daughters could write better poetry." 

Poet, writer, folklorist; born in Galesburg, Illinois  He studied at Lombard College, Galesburg (1898--1902) - with time out for service in the Spanish-American War (1899) - and in the decades ahead would work as an editor, journalist, copywriter, lecturer, and collector of folk songs.  He was an organizer of the Social-Democratic Party (1908), and was secretary to the Socialist mayor of Milwaukee (1910--12).  Known for such famous poems as "Chicago" (1914), and "Fog" (1916), he won the Pulitzer Prize (1940) for the last of his six-volume biography of Lincoln (1926--39).  He was ahead of most of his fellow poets in his interest in American folksong and lore; he coll

Children, Imagism, National, Nonsense, Others

YearsCountryPoetInteraction
1809-1865
USA
Abraham Lincoln
→ influenced Carl Sandburg
1819-1892
USA
Walt Whitman
→ influenced Carl Sandburg
1874-1925
USA
Amy Lowell
→ praised Carl Sandburg


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The Junk Man
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A Father To His Son
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A Coin
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Arithmetic
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Chicago
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Killers
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Summer Stars
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Wars
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Bricklayer Love
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Dream Girl
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They Will Say
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A Teamster`s Farewell
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Accomplished
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On The Breakwater
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Style
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All Day Long
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Chamfort
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Chicago Poet
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Child Of The Romans
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Choose
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Dust
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Dynamiter
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Eleventh Avenue Racket
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Evening Waterfall
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Fellow Citizens
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Fire Pages
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Fish Crier
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Flanders
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Flux
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From The Shore
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Gone
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Good Night
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Government
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Graceland
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Graves
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Gypsy
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Halsted Street Car
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Hell On The Wabash
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Honky Tonk In Cleveland, Ohio
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Hope Is A Tattered Flag
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Horses And Men In Rain
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I Am The People, The Mob
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I Sang
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Ice Handler
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Iron
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It Is Much
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Jack
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Joy
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June
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Jungheimer`s
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Kin
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Laughing Corn
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Lawyer
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Limited
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Losses
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Mamie
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Margaret
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Maybe
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Medallion
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Momus
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Monotone
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Muckers
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Murmurings In A Field Hospital
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Neighbors
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Nigger
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Nocturne In A Deserted Brickyard
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Noon Hour
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Old Timers
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Old Woman
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Omaha
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On The Way
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Onion Days
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Our Prayer Of Thanks
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Passers-By
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Pearl Fog
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Pennsylvania
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People Who Must
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Picnic Boat
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Plowboy
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Poems Done On A Late Night Car
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Pool
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Poppies
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Population Drifts
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Prayers Of Steel
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Primer Lesson
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Ready to Kill
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River Roads
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Salvage
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Sea Slant
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Sea-Wash
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Sheep
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Shirt
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Silver Nails
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Sixteen Months
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Sketch
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Skyscraper
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Soiled Dove
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Soup
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Stars, Songs, Faces
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Statistics
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Street Window
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Subway
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Sunset From Omaha Hotel Window
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The Answer
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The Harbor
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The Has-Been
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The Mayor Of Gary
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The Mist
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The Red Son
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The Right To Grief
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The Shovel Man
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The Walking Man Of Rodin
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The Year
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They All Want To Play Hamlet
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Threes
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To Beachey, 1912
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To Certain Journeymen
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Trafficker
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Troths
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Two
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Two Neighbors
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Under A Hat Rim
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Under A Telephone Pole
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Under The Harvest Moon
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Uplands In May
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Upstairs
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Waiting
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White Shoulders
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Whitelight
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Who Am I?
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Window
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Woman With A Past
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Working Girls
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Young Sea
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A Tall Man
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Alix
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Alley Rats
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Always The Mob
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An Electric Sign Goes Dark
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And So To-Day
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And This Will Be All?
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Ashurnatsirp
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Aztec Mask
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Baby Face
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Baby Vamps
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Balloon Faces
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Baltic Fog Notes
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Band Concert
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Basket
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Bilbea
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Blizzard Notes
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Blue Maroons
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Blue Ridge
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Boy And Father
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Branches
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Brass Keys
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Broken-Face Gargoyles
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Buckwheat
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Buffalo Bill
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Buffalo Dusk
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Caboose Thoughts
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Cadenza
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Cahoots
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California City Landscape
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Calls
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Carlovingian Dreams
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Cartoon
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Chasers
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Chicks
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Child Margaret
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Chords
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Circles Of Doors
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Clean Hands
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Clinton South Of Polk
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Clocks
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Corn Hut Talk
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Crabapple Blossoms
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Crapshooters
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Crimson Changes People
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Crimson Rambler
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Cups Of Coffee
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Curse Of A Rich Polish Peasant On His Sister Who Ran Away With A Wild Man
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Dan
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Dancer
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Do You Want Affidavits?
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Dogheads
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Drumnotes
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Early Moon
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Elephants Are Different To Different People
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Falltime
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Far Rockaway Night Till Morning
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Films
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Finish
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Fire Dreams
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Fire-Logs
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Five Cent Balloons
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Five Towns On The B. & O.
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Flash Crimson
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Flat Lands
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Flying Fish
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Fog Portrait
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For You
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Four Preludes On Playthings Of The Wind
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Galoots
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Garden Wireless
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Gargoyle
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Girl In A Cage
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Glimmer
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Goldwing Moth
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Grieg Being Dead
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Half Moon In A High Wind
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Handfuls
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Harvest Sunset
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Have Me
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Helga
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His Own Face Hidden
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Home Thoughts
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Horse Fiddle
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House
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How Much?
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How Yesterday Looked
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Humming Bird Woman
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Illinois Farmer
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In Tall Grass
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In The Shadow Of The Palace
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Jabberers
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Jack London And O. Henry
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Jerry
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John Ericsson Day Memorial, 1918
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Just Before April Came
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Knucks
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Legends
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Let Love Go On
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Loin Cloth
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Long Guns
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Losers
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Love Beyond Keeping
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Man, The Man-Hunter
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Manufactured Gods
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Mascots
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Memoir Of A Proud Boy
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Memoranda
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Mist Forms
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Mohammed Bek Hadjetlache
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Moonset
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My People
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Near Keokuk
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Never Born
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New Feet
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Night Movement-New York
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Night Stuff
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Nights Nothings Again
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North Atlantic
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Old Osawatomie
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Old-fashioned Requited Love
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Ossawatomie
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Out Of White Lips
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Panels
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Paula
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People With Proud Chins
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Pick Offs
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Pigeon
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Places
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Plaster
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Pods
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Portrait
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Portrait Of A Motor Car
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Potato Blossom Songs And Jigs
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Potomac River Mist
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Potomac Town In February
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Prairie
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Prayers After World War
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Proud And Beautiful
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Purple Martins
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Put Off The Wedding Five Times And Nobody Comes To It
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Questionnaire
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Real Estate News
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Red-Headed Restaurant Cashier
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Remembered Women
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Remorse
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Repetitions
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River Moons
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Rusty Crimson
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Sand Scribblings
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Sandhill People
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Savoir Faire
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Silver Wind
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Singing Nigger
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Slants At Buffalo, New York
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Sleepyheads
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Snow
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Southern Pacific
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Spanish
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Tawny
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Telegram
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Testament
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Testimony Regarding A Ghost
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The Four Brothers
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The Hammer
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The Lawyers Know Too Much
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The Liars
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The People, Yes
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The Plowboy
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The Sea Hold
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The Sins Of Kalamazoo
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The Skyscraper Loves Night
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The South Wind Say So
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The Wind Sings Welcome In Early Spring
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They Ask Each Other Where They Came From
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They Buy With An Eye To Looks
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Thin Strips
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Three Balls
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Three Ghosts
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Three Pieces On The Smoke Of Autumn
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Three Spring Notations On Bipeds
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Three Violins
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Throw Roses
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Throwbacks
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Timber Wings
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Trinity Place
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Two Strangers Breakfast
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Upstream
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Village In Late Summer
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White Ash
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White Hands
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Wilderness
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Wind Song
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Windflower Leaf
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Winter Milk
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Wistful
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Women Washing Their Hair
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Work Gangs
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Yes , The Dead Speak To Us
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Young Bullfrogs
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