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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
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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
  
PARVENU
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COLLECTED POEMS
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SECTION I NIGHTINGALES
  
THE CHINESE NIGHTINGALE
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SHANTUNG, OR THE EMPIRE OF CHINA IS CRUMBLING DOWN
  
THE SPICE-TREE
  
I KNOW ALL THIS WHEN GIPSY FIDDLES CRY
  
A RHYME FOR ALL ZIONISTS
  
INCENSE
  
A NET TO SNARE THE MOONLIGHT
  
ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT
  
NIAGARA
  
MAE MARSH, MOTION PICTURE ACTRESS
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EPITAPHS FOR TWO PLAYERS
  
HAMLET
  
SPRINGFIELD MAGICAL
  
HOW A LITTLE GIRL SANG
  
HOW A LITTLE GIRL DANCED
  
FOR ALL WHO EVER SENT LACE VALENTINES
  
THE MOON'S THE NORTH WIND'S COOKY
  
THE LITTLE TURTLE
  
YET GENTLE WILL THE GRIFFIN BE
  
THE SUN SAYS HIS PRAYERS
  
THE SHIELD OF FAITH
  
LOVE AND LAW
  
THE LEADEN-EYED
  
THE TRAVELLER-HEART
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A GOSPEL OF BEAUTY
  
THE FLUTE OF THE LONELY
  
THE BRONCHO THAT WOULD NOT BE BROKEN
  
THE GHOST OF THE BUFFALOES
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IN PRAISE OF JOHNNY APPLESEED
  
THE STATUE OF OLD ANDREW JACKSON
  
JOHN L. SULLIVAN, THE STRONG BOY OF BOSTON
  
THE EAGLE THAT IS FORGOTTEN
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BRYAN, BRYAN, BRYAN, BRYAN
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OUR MOTHER POCAHONTAS
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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 DRUNKARDS IN THE STREET

The Drunkards in the street are calling one another,
Heeding not the night-wind, great of heart and gay,—
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Publicans and wantons—
Calling, laughing, calling,
While the Spirit bloweth Space and Time away.
Why should I feel the sobbing, the secrecy, the glory,
This comforter, this fitful wind divine?
I the cautious Pharisee, the scribe, the whited sepulchre—
I have no right to God, he is not mine.
Within their gutters, drunkards dream of Hell.
I say my prayers by my white bed to-night,
With the arms of God about me, with the angels singing, singing,
Until the grayness of my soul grows white.
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