Quotes from book
Chicago Poems

Chicago Poems
Carl Sandburg

Chicago Poems is a 1916 collection of poetry by Carl Sandburg, his first by a mainstream publisher.

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“Give me hunger, pain and want,
Shut me out with shame and failure
From your doors of gold and fame,
Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!

But leave me a little love.”

Carl Sandburg book Chicago Poems

Source: Chicago Poems

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