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Collected poems by Vachel Lindsay

revised and illustrated edition

Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931)

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INVOCATION FOR “THE MAP OF THE UNIVERSE”

TO EVE, MAN'S DREAM OF WIFEHOOD AS DESCRIBED BY MILTON

JOHNNY APPLESEED'S WIFE OF THE MIND

JOHNNY APPLESEED'S HYMN TO THE SUN

JOHNNY APPLESEED'S SHIP COMES IN

JOHNNY APPLESEED SPEAKS OF THE APPLEBLOSSOM AMARANTH THAT WILL COME TO THIS CITY

JOHNNY APPLESEED'S WIFE FROM THE PALACE OF EVE

JOHNNY APPLESEED SPEAKS OF GREAT CITIES IN THE FUTURE

HOW JOHNNY APPLESEED WALKED ALONE IN THE JUNGLES OF HEAVEN

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COLLECTED POEMS

1.

SECTION I NIGHTINGALES

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SECTION II ORATIONS, COLLEGE WAR-CRIES, AND OLYMPIC GAMES

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SECTION III LITANY OF THE HEROES

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SECTION IV VERSES OF AN ESPECIALLY INSCRIPTIONAL CHARACTER

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SECTION V MOON-POEMS

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SECTION VI INCENSE AND PRAISE, AND WHIM, AND GLORY

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SECTION VII RUNES OF THE ROAD

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SECTION VIII HOME TOWN

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SECTION IX POLITICS

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SECTION X SONGS BASED ON CARTOONS, BILL-BOARDS, AND AMERICAN HIEROGLYPHICS, AND MOTION-PICTURES

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SECTION XI A SONG BASED ON EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS:

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THE TRIAL OF THE DEAD CLEOPATRA IN HER BEAUTIFUL AND WONDERFUL TOMB

1.

I. She Becomes a Soul, Flowering Toward Egyptian Resurrection, B.C. 29

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II. She Becomes a Goddess.

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III. She is Lifted with the Old Gods into the Western Sky

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Dive, mermaids, with sharp swords
And cut him through,
And bring us the idols' eyes
And the red gold too.
Lower the grappling hooks
Good pirate men
And drag him up by the tongue
From his deep wet den.
We will sail to the end of the world,

Repeat as a second chorus many times.

We will nail his hide
To the mainmast of the moon
In the evening tide.