Vachel Lindsay
Writer
November 10, 1879 – December 5, 1931
Poems:
A Curse for Kings; A
Dirge for a Righteous Kitten; A Net to Snare the Moonlight; A Prayer To All The
Dead Among Mine Own People; A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign; A
Sense of Humor; Above the Battle's Front; Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight; Aladdin
and the Jinn; Alone in the Wind, on the Prairie; An Apology for the Bottle
Volcanic; An Argument; An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie; At Mass; Beyond the
Moon; Blanche Sweet; Buddha; By the Spring, at Sunset; Caught in a Net; Concerning
Emperors; Darling Daughter of Babylon; Drying Their Wings; Eden in Winter; Elizabeth
Barrett Browning; Epilogue; Epitaphs For Two Players; Euclid; Factory Windows
Are Always Broken; Foreign Missions in Battle Array; Galahad, Knight Who
Perished; General William Booth Enters into Heaven; Genesis; Ghosts in Love; Heart
of God; Here's to the Mice!; Honor Among Scamps; How a Little Girl Danced; How
a Little Girl Sang; How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven; How Samson
Bore Away the Gates of GazaI Heard Immanuel Singing; I Went Down into the
Desert; In Memory of a Child; In Praise of Songs that Die; Incense; King
Arthur's Men Have Come Again; Lincoln; Look You, I'll Go Pray; Love and Law; Mae
Marsh, Motion Picture Actress; Mark Twain and Joan of Arc; Michaelangelo; My
Lady in Her White Silk Shawl; Niagara; On Reading Omar Khayyam; On the Building
of Springfield; On the Garden Wall; On the Road to Nowhere; Our Guardian Angels
and Their Children; Our Mother Pocahontas; Popcorn, Glass Balls, and
Cranberries; Prologue to Rhymes to be Traded for Bread; Queen Mab in the
Village; Rhymes for Gloriana; Shakespeare; Springfield Magical; St. Francis of
Assisi; Star of My Heart; Sunshine; Sweet Briars of the Stairways; Sweethearts
of the Year; The Alchemist's Petition; The Amaranth; The Angel and the Clown; The
Bankrupt Peace-Maker; The Beggar's Valentine; The Black Hawk War of the Artists;
The Booker Washington Trilogy; The Broncho That Would Not Be Broken; The
Chinese Nightingale; The City That Will Not Repent; The Congo; The Cornfields; The
Dandelion; The Drunkard's Funeral; The Drunkards in the Street; The Eagle That
Is Forgotten; The Empty Boats; The Encyclopaedia; The Fairy Bridal-Hymn; The
Firemen's Ball; The Flower of Mending; The Flower-Fed Buffaloes; The Gamblers; The
Ghosts of the Buffaloes; The Haughty Snail-King; The Hearth Eternal; The Hope
of the Resurrection; The Illinois Village; The Jingo and the Minstrel; The King
of Yellow Butterflies; The Knight in Disguise; The Leaden-Eyed; The Light o'
the Moon; The Lion; The Little Turtle; The Master of the Dance; The Merciful
Hand; The Moon is a Painter; The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky; The Mysterious
Cat; The North Star Whispers to the Blacksmith's Son; The Perfect Marriage; The
Potatoes' Dance; The Prairie Battlements; The Proud Farmer; The Queen of
Bubbles; The Raft; The Rose of Midnight; The Santa-Fe Trail (A Humoresque); The
Scissors-Grinder; The Song of the Garden-Toad; The Sorceress!; The Soul of the
City Receives the Gift of the Holy Spirit; The Spice-Tree; The Spider and the
Ghost of the Fly; The Strength of the Lonely; The Sun Says His Prayers; The
Tale Of The Tiger-Tree; The Trap; The Traveller-Heart; The Tree of Laughing
Bells; The Unpardonable Sin; The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotos; The Wizard
in the Street; This Section is a Christmas Tree; This, My Song, Is Made For
Kerensky; TitianTo Buddha; To Gloriana; To Jane Addams at the Hague; To Lady
Jane; To Mary Pickford; To Reformers in Despair; To the United States Senate; Two
Old Crows; Upon Returning to the Country Road; We Meet at the Judgment and I
Fear It Not; What Semiramis Said; What the Coal-Heaver Said; What the Ghost of
the Gambler Said; What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said; What the Miner in the Desert
Said; What the Moon Saw; What the Rattlesnake Said; What the Sexton Said; When
Bryan Speaks; When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich; Where Is David, the Next King
of Israel?; Where Is the Real Non-Resistant; Who Knows?; Why I Voted the
Socialist Ticket; With a Bouquet of Twelve Roses; Written for a Musician; Yankee
Doodle; Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be.
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