The Booker Washington Trilogy (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. A NEGRO SERMON:-SIMON LEGREE (To be read in your own variety of negro dialect.) Legree's big house was white ...
I. A NEGRO SERMON:-SIMON LEGREE (To be read in your own variety of negro dialect.) Legree's big house was white ...
Where a river roars in rapids And doves in maples fret, Where peace has decked the pastures Our guardian angels ...
She was taught desire in the street, Not at the angels' feet. By the good no word was said Of ...
I opened the ink-well and smoke filled the room. The smoke formed the giant frog-cat of my doom. His web ...
I. Sunrise. In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main. ...
Fair is the wedded reign of Night and Day. Each rules a half of earth with different sway, Exchanging kingdoms, ...
Oft seems the Time a market-town Where many merchant-spirits meet Who up and down and up and down Cry out ...
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for ...
In o'er-strict calyx lingering, Lay music's bud too long unblown, Till thou, Beethoven, breathed the spring: Then bloomed the perfect ...
She bade me follow to her garden where The mellow sunlight stood as in a cup Between the old grey ...
In Springfield, Illinois IT is portentious, and a thing of state That here at midnight, in our little town A ...
I. THEIR BASIC SAVAGERY Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable, Sagged and reeled and ...
Star of my heart, I follow from afar. Sweet Love on high, lead on where shepherds are, Where Time is ...
This poem is intended as a description of a sort of Blashfield mural painting on the sky. To be sung ...
To live as gently as I can; To be, no matter where, a man; To take what comes of good ...
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