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Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel
Congo and Other Poems
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THE CONGO AND OTHER POEMS
By Vachel Lindsay
[Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Illinois Artist. 1879-1931.]
With an introduction by Harriet Monroe Editor of "Poetry"
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Contents
- THE CONGO AND OTHER POEMS
- Introduction. By Harriet Monroe
- First Section ~~ Poems intended to be read aloud, or chanted.
- The Congo
- The Santa Fe Trail
- The Firemen's Ball
- The Master of the Dance
- The Mysterious Cat
- A Dirge for a Righteous Kitten
- The Black Hawk War of the Artists
- The Jingo and the Minstrel
- I Heard Immanuel Singing
- Second Section ~~ Incense
- An Argument
- A Rhyme about an Electrical Advertising Sign
- In Memory of a Child
- Galahad, Knight Who Perished
- The Leaden-eyed
- An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie
- The Hearth Eternal
- The Soul of the City Receives the Gift of the Holy Spirit
- By the Spring, at Sunset
- I Went down into the Desert
- Love and Law
- The Perfect Marriage
- Darling Daughter of Babylon
- The Alchemist's Petition
- Two Easter Stanzas
- The Traveller-heart
- The North Star Whispers to the Blacksmith's Son
- Third Section ~~ A Miscellany called "the Christmas Tree"
- This Section is a Christmas Tree
- The Sun Says his Prayers
- Popcorn, Glass Balls, and Cranberries (As it were)
- How a Little Girl Danced
- In Praise of Songs that Die
- Factory Windows are always Broken
- To Mary Pickford
- Blanche Sweet
- Sunshine
- An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic
- When Gassy Thompson Struck it Rich
- Rhymes for Gloriana
- Fourth Section ~~ Twenty Poems in which the Moon is the Principal Figure of Speech
- Once More—To Gloriana
- First Section: Moon Poems for the Children/Fairy-tales for the Children
- Second Section: The Moon is a Mirror
- Fifth Section
- I. Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
- II. A Curse for Kings
- III. Who Knows?
- IV. To Buddha
- V. The Unpardonable Sin
- VI. Above the Battle's Front
- VII. Epilogue. Under the Blessing of Your Psyche Wings
- Biographical Note