# Cornhuskers

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Released by Henry Holt Publishers, the 103 poems that form this 1918 collection earned Sandburg the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. This book is available in spoken word format. Soundfiles for each chapter are linked to in the chapter headers.
CORNHUSKERS
BY
CARL SANDBURG
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1918
Copyright, 1918,
by
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
THE QUINN & BODEN CO. PRESS
RAHWAY, N. J.
TO
JANET AND MARGARET
​Acknowledgement is set forth that some things here were first printed in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, The Chicago Daily News, and the service of the Newspaper Enterprise Association.—C.S.
CONTENTS
| CORNHUSKERS | PAGE |
| Prairie | 3 |
| River Roads | 12 |
| Prairie Waters by Night | 13 |
| Early Moon | 14 |
| Laughing Corn | 15 |
| Autumn Movement | 16 |
| Falltime | 17 |
| Illinois Farmer | 18 |
| Hits and Runs | 19 |
| Village in Late Summer | 20 |
| Blizzard Notes | 21 |
| Sunset From Omaha Hotel Window | 22 |
| Still Life | 23 |
| Band Concert | 24 |
| Three Pieces on the Smoke of Autumn | 25 |
| Localities | 27 |
| Caboose Thoughts | 29 |
| Alix | 31 |
| Potato Blossom Songs and Jigs | 33 |
| Loam | 37 |
| Manitoba Childe Roland | 38 |
| Wilderness | 40 |
| PERSONS HALF KNOWN |
| Chicago Poet | 45 |
| Fire-Logs | 46 |
| Repetitions | 47 ​ |
| Adelaide Crapsey | 48 |
| Young Bullfrogs | 49 |
| Memoir of a Proud Boy | 50 |
| Bilbea | 52 |
| Southern Pacific | 53 |
| Washerwoman | 54 |
| Portrait of a Motor Car | 55 |
| Girl in a Cage | 56 |
| Buffalo Bill | 57 |
| Sixteen Months | 58 |
| Child Margaret | 59 |
| Singing Nigger | 60 |
| LEATHER LEGGINGS |
| Leather Leggings | 63 |
| Prayers of Steel | 65 |
| Always the Mob | 66 |
| Jabberers | 68 |
| Cartoon | 69 |
| Interior | 70 |
| Street Window | 72 |
| Palladiums | 73 |
| Clocks | 74 |
| Legends | 75 |
| Psalm of Those Who Go Forth Before Daylight | 77 |
| Horses and Men in Rain | 78 |
| Questionnaire | 79 |
| Near Keokuk | 80 |
| Slants at Buffalo, New York | 81 |
| Flat Lands | 82 |
| Lawyer | 83 |
| Three Balls | 84 ​ |
| Chicks | 85 |
| Humdrum | 86 |
| Joliet | 87 |
| Knucks | 88 |
| Testament | 90 |
| HAUNTS |
| Valley Song | 93 |
| In Tall Grass | 94 |
| Upstairs | 95 |
| Monosyllabic | 96 |
| Films | 97 |
| Kreisler | 98 |
| The Sea Hold | 99 |
| Goldwing Moth | 100 |
| Loin Cloth | 101 |
| Hemlock and Cedar | 102 |
| Summer Shirt Sale | 103 |
| Medallion | 104 |
| Bricklayer Love | 105 |
| Ashurnatsirpal III | 106 |
| Mammy Hums | 107 |
| Bringers | 108 |
| Crimson Rambler | 109 |
| Haunts | 110 |
| Have Me | 111 |
| Fire Dreams | 112 |
| Baby Face | 114 |
| The Year | 115 |
| Drumnotes | 116 |
| Moonset | 117 |
| Garden Wireless | 118 ​ |
| Handfuls | 119 |
| Cool Tombs | 120 |
| SHENANDOAH |
| Shenandoah | 123 |
| New Feet | 124 |
| Old Osawatomie | 125 |
| Grass | 126 |
| Flanders | 127 |
| Gargoyle | 128 |
| Old Timers | 129 |
| House | 130 |
| John Ericsson Day Memorial, 1918 | 131 |
| Remembered Women | 133 |
| Out of White Lips | 134 |
| Memoir | 135 |
| A Million Young Workmen, 1915 | 137 |
| Smoke | 138 |
| A Tall Man | 139 |
| The Four Brothers | 141 |
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.
The longest-living author of this work died in 1967, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 56 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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