The City That Will Not Repent (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Climbing the heights of Berkeley Nightly I watch the West. There lies new San Francisco, Sea-maid in purple dressed, Wearing ...
Climbing the heights of Berkeley Nightly I watch the West. There lies new San Francisco, Sea-maid in purple dressed, Wearing ...
What time I paced, at pleasant morn, A deep and dewy wood, I heard a mellow hunting-horn Make dim report ...
I saw wild domes and bowers And smoking incense towers And mad exotic flowers In Illinois. Where ragged ditches ran ...
A chant to which it is intended a group of children shall dance and improvise pantomime led by their dancing-teacher. ...
A Story of Christmas Eve. Strange that the termagant winds should scold The Christmas Eve so bitterly! But Wife, and ...
I. THE VOICE OF THE MAN IMPATIENT WITH VISIONS AND UTOPIAS We find your soft Utopias as white As new-cut ...
(The poem shows the Master, with his work done, singing to free his heart in Heaven.) I heard Immanuel singing ...
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
WRITTEN FOR LORADO TAFT'S STATUE OF BLACK HAWK AT OREGON, ILLINOIS To be given in the manner of the Indian ...
Let not our town be large, remembering That little Athens was the Muses' home, That Oxford rules the heart of ...
"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for ...
I asked the old Negro, "What is that bird that sings so well?" He answered: "That is the Rachel-Jane." "Hasn't ...
Here, where the noises of the busy town, The ocean's plunge and roar can enter not, We stand and gaze ...
Ploughman, whose gnarly hand yet kindly wheeled Thy plough to ring this solitary tree With clover, whose round plat, reserved ...
I. A NEGRO SERMON:-SIMON LEGREE (To be read in your own variety of negro dialect.) Legree's big house was white ...
Prelude Blue storm-clouds in hot heavens of mid-July Hung heavy, brooding over land and sea: Our hearts, a-tremble, throbbed in ...
Where a river roars in rapids And doves in maples fret, Where peace has decked the pastures Our guardian angels ...
Sweet serene sky-like flower, Haste to adorn her bower; From thy long cloudy bed Shoot forth thy damask head! New-startled ...
In the midst of the battle I turned, (For the thunders could flourish ...
Why should you swear I am forsworn, Since thine I vowed to be? Lady, it is already morn, And 'twas ...
I know a seraph who has golden eyes, And hair of gold, and body like the snow. Here in the ...
Amarantha, sweet and fair, Ah, braid no more that shining hair! As my curious hand or eye Hovering round thee, ...
How the Wings Were Made From many morning-glories That in an hour will fade, From many ...
From cold Norse caves or buccaneer Southern seas Oft come repenting tempests here to die; Bewailing old-time wrecks and robberies, ...
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: ...
Because it rains when we wish it wouldn't, Because men do what they often shouldn't, Because crops fail, and plans ...
There is another sky, Ever serene and fair, And there is another sunshine, Though it be darkness there; Never mind ...
A governor it was proclaimed this time, When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire Ancestral memories might come ...
Life, sometimes so wearying Is worth its weight in gold The experience of traveling Lends a wisdom that is old ...
I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities ...
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