The Congo and Other Poems

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The Illinois-born poet Vachel Lindsay was a champion of the oral tradition of poetry. This volume presents a generous selection of Vachel Lindsay's poems, including a number of his most popular performance pieces--"The Congo" and "The Santa Fe Trail" among them--reprinted with his own directions on how to recite them.

Contents

Introduction

I. 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
Yankee Doodle
The Black Hawk War of the Artists
The Jingo and the Minstrel
I Heard Immanuel Singing

II. 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 Amaranth
The Alchemist's Petition
Two Easter Stanzas
The Traveller-heart
The North Star Whispers to the Blacksmith's Son

III. A MISCELLANY CALLED "THE CHRISTMAS TREE"
This Section is a Christmas Tree
The Sun Says his Prayers
Popcorn, Glass Balls, and Cranberries
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

IV. 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

V.
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

Language: English

Pages: 94

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: January 01, 1914

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