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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.

Anno Domini 28. Nine years later.

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

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The trial opens B.C. 29. This is the date of the death of Cæsarion, shortly after the suicide of Cleopatra. Cæsarion, natural heir to the empires of Egypt and Rome, son of Cleopatra and Julius Cæsar, was assassinated by his cousin Octavian. This made Octavian Augustus Cæsar sole heir of Julius Cæsar, made him ruler of the known world.

(Inscribed To Elizabeth Mann Wills)