Incense (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Think not that incense-smoke has had its day. My friends, the incense-time has but begun. Creed upon creed, cult upon ...
Think not that incense-smoke has had its day. My friends, the incense-time has but begun. Creed upon creed, cult upon ...
I. EDWIN BOOTH An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a ...
Would that such hills and cities round us sang, Such vistas of the actual earth and man As kindled Titian ...
Even the shrewd and bitter, Gnarled by the old world's greed, Cherished the stranger softly Seeing his utter need. Shelter ...
And must the Senator from Illinois Be this squat thing, with blinking, half-closed eyes? This brazen gutter idol, reared to ...
He paid a Swede twelve bits an hour Just to invent a fancy style To spread the celebration paint So ...
In Springfield, Illinois IT is portentious, and a thing of state That here at midnight, in our little town A ...
I I hate this yoke; for the world's sake here put it on: Knowing 'twill weigh as much on you ...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sat gossiping with Robert. (She was really a raving beauty in her day. With Mary Pickford curls ...
When Yankee soldiers reach the barricade Then Joan of Arc gives each the accolade. For she is there in armor ...
I. THE VOICE OF THE MAN IMPATIENT WITH VISIONS AND UTOPIAS We find your soft Utopias as white As new-cut ...
I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the ...
Life's a jail where men have common lot. Gaunt the one who has, and who has not. All our treasures ...
I asked her, "Is Aladdin's lamp Hidden anywhere?" "Look into your heart," she said, "Aladdin's lamp is there." She took ...
AN ARGUMENT FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND GOODWILL WITH THE JAPANESE PEOPLE Glossary for the uninstructed and the hasty: ...
I. THE DOLL UPON THE TOPMOST BOUGH This doll upon the topmost bough, This playmate-gift, in Christmas dress, Was taken ...
FACTORY windows are always broken. Somebody's always throwing bricks, Somebody's always heaving cinders, Playing ugly Yahoo tricks. Factory windows are ...
THE North Star whispers: "You are one Of those whose course no chance can change. You blunder, but are not ...
O great heart of God, Once vague and lost to me, Why do I throb with your throb to-night, In ...
Would I might wake St. Francis in you all, Brother of birds and trees, God's Troubadour, Blinded with weeping for ...
WRITTEN FOR LORADO TAFT'S STATUE OF BLACK HAWK AT OREGON, ILLINOIS To be given in the manner of the Indian ...
Upon her breast her hands and hair Were tangled all together. The moon of June forbade me not - The ...
The old man had his box and wheel For grinding knives and shears. No doubt his bell in village streets ...
MOVING-PICTURE ACTRESS (On hearing she was leaving the moving-pictures for the stage.) Mary Pickford, doll divine, Year by year, and ...
Sweetheart Spring Our Sweetheart, Spring, came softly, Her gliding hands were fire, Her lilac breath upon our cheeks Consumed us ...
Down, down beneath the daisy beds, O hear the cries of pain! And moaning on the cinder-path They're blind amid ...
Oh, once I walked a garden In dreams. 'Twas yellow grass. And many orange-trees grew there In sand as white ...
(To Edgar Lee Masters, with great respect) HERE upon the prarie Is our ancestral hall. Agate is the dome, Cornelian ...
(Note: - Pocahontas is buried at Gravesend, England.) "Pocahontas' body, lovely as a poplar, sweet as a red haw in ...
I. THE LION The Lion is a kingly beast. He likes a Hindu for a feast. And if no Hindu ...
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