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Collected poems by Vachel Lindsay
revised and illustrated edition
Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931)
[section]
[dedication]
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
PARVENU
COLLECTED POEMS
1.
SECTION I NIGHTINGALES
2.
SECTION II ORATIONS, COLLEGE WAR-CRIES, AND OLYMPIC GAMES
3.
SECTION III LITANY OF THE HEROES
4.
SECTION IV VERSES OF AN ESPECIALLY INSCRIPTIONAL CHARACTER
5.
SECTION V MOON-POEMS
6.
SECTION VI INCENSE AND PRAISE, AND WHIM, AND GLORY
7.
SECTION VII RUNES OF THE ROAD
8.
SECTION VIII HOME TOWN
9.
SECTION IX POLITICS
10.
SECTION X SONGS BASED ON CARTOONS, BILL-BOARDS, AND AMERICAN HIEROGLYPHICS, AND MOTION-PICTURES
11.
SECTION XI A SONG BASED ON EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS:
THE TRIAL OF THE DEAD CLEOPATRA IN HER BEAUTIFUL AND WONDERFUL TOMB
[prologue]
1.
I. She Becomes a Soul, Flowering Toward Egyptian Resurrection, B.C. 29
2.
II. She Becomes a Goddess.
3.
III. She is Lifted with the Old Gods into the Western Sky
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Collected poems by Vachel Lindsay
Anubis, the faithful jackal, fed her smoke,
There with iron paws, beat down the snakes of death.
Unnoted and unknown to gods or ghosts,
To Set or to his suffering prisoner,
Collected poems by Vachel Lindsay