Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
IIn a nation of one hundred fine, mob-hearted, lynching, relenting, repenting millions,There are plenty of sweeping, swinging, stinging, gorgeous things ...
IIn a nation of one hundred fine, mob-hearted, lynching, relenting, repenting millions,There are plenty of sweeping, swinging, stinging, gorgeous things ...
"He could not forget that he was a Sidney." Is this Sir Philip Sidney, this ...
I asked the old Negro, "What is that bird that sings so well?" He answered: "That is the Rachel-Jane." "Hasn't ...
She was taught desire in the street, Not at the angels' feet. By the good no word was said Of ...
Would that in body and spirit Shakespeare came Visible emperor of the deeds of Time, With Justice still the genius ...
I. A NEGRO SERMON:-SIMON LEGREE (To be read in your own variety of negro dialect.) Legree's big house was white ...
Where is David? . . . O God's people, Saul has passed, the good and great. Mourn for Saul the ...
We are happy all the time Even when we fight: Sweet briars of the stairways, Gay fairies of the grime; ...
On the road to nowhere What wild oats did you sow When you left your father's house With your cheeks ...
AN ARGUMENT FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND GOODWILL WITH THE JAPANESE PEOPLE Glossary for the uninstructed and the hasty: ...
FOR A VERY LITTLE GIRL, NOT A YEAR OLD. CATHARINE FRAZEE WAKEFIELD. The sun gives not directly The coal, the ...
Once I loved a fairy, Queen Mab it was. Her voice Was like a little Fountain That bids the birds ...
In this, the City of my Discontent, Sometimes there comes a whisper from the grass, "Romance, Romance - is here. ...
Star of my heart, I follow from afar. Sweet Love on high, lead on where shepherds are, Where Time is ...
Who now will praise the Wizard in the street With loyal songs, with humors grave and ...
(To a Man who maintained that the Mausoleum is the Stateliest Possible Manner of Interment) I would be one with ...
(What the Mendicant Said ) The moon's a monk, unmated, Who walks his cell, the sky. His strength is that ...
(A Negro Sermon.) Once, in a night as black as ink, She drove him out when he would not drink. ...
A POEM DEDICATED TO ALL CRUSADERS AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL AND INTERSTATE TRAFFIC IN YOUNG GIRLS Galahad . . . soldier ...
This poem is intended as a description of a sort of Blashfield mural painting on the sky. To be sung ...
I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the ...
Though better men may fear that trumpet's warning, I meet you, lady, on the Judgment morning, With golden hope my ...
A Song in Chinese Tapestries "How, how," he said. "Friend Chang," I said, "San Francisco sleeps as the dead- Ended ...
Oh, once I walked in Heaven, all alone Upon the sacred cliffs above the sky. God and the angels, and ...
And must the Senator from Illinois Be this squat thing, with blinking, half-closed eyes? This brazen gutter idol, reared to ...
SECTION ONE "Give the engines room, Give the engines room." Louder, faster The little band-master Whips up the fluting, Hurries ...
A Fantasy, dedicated to the little poet Alice Oliver Henderson, ten years old. The Fantasy shows how tiger-hearts are the ...
(Matthew V, 38-48.) Who can surrender to Christ, dividing his best with the stranger, Giving to each what he asks, ...
A curse upon each king who leads his state, No matter what his plea, to this foul game, And may ...
Last night at black midnight I woke with a cry, The windows were shaking, there was thunder on high, The ...
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