Free Verse · Nature
Fog
by Carl Sandburg · 1916
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- Fog
- Poet
- Carl Sandburg
- Published
- 1916
- Length
- 6 lines
- Form
- Free Verse, Short Poems
- Themes
- Nature, Short
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 6 lines · 2 stanzas of 2–4 lines
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Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
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- Author record
- Carl Sandburg1878–1967
- Source record
- WikisourceFog by carl-sandburg, Wikisource transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Chicago Poems, 1916
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 be2c919078512397…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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