Work(s) of Vachel Lindsay

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[Biography of Vachel Lindsay]



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• "This, My Song, Is Made For Kerensky"
  
• Above The Battle's Front
  
• Abraham Lincoln Walks At Midnight
  
• Aladdin And The Jinn
  
• Alchemist's Petition, The
  
• Alone In The Wind, On The Prairie
  
• Amaranth, The
  
• Angel And The Clown, The
  
• Apology For The Bottle Volcanic, An
  
• At Mass
  
• Bankrupt Peace Maker, The
  
• Beggar's Valentine, The
  
• Beyond The Moon
  
• Black Hawk War Of The Artists, The
  
• Blanche Sweet, Moving-Picture Actress
  
• Booker Washington Trilogy, The
  
• Broncho That Would Not Be Broken, The
  
• Buddha
  
• By The Spring, At Sunset
  
• Caught In A Net
  
• Chinese Nightingale: A Song In Chinese Tapestries, The
  
• City That Will Not Repent, The
  
• Concerning Emperors
  
• Congo: A Study Of The Negro Race, The
  
• Cornfields, The
  
• Crickets On A Strike
  
• Curse For Kings, A
  
• Dandelion, The
  
• Dangerous Little Boy Fairies, The
  
• Darling Daughter Of Babylon
  
• Dirge For A Righteous Kitten, A
  
• Doll Upon The Topmost Bough [Rhyme For Gloriana], The
  
• Drunkard's Funeral, The
  
• Drunkards In The Street, The
  
• Drying Their Wings
  
• Eagle That Is Forgotten, The
  
• Eden In Winter
  
• Empty Boats, The
  
• Encyclopaedia, The
  
• Epilogue. Under The Blessing Of Your Psyche Wings
  
• Epitaphs For Two Players
  
• Euclid
  
• Explanation Of The Grasshopper, An
  
• Factory Windows Are Always Broken
  
• Fairy Bridal Hymn, The
  
• Firemen's Ball, The
  
• Flower Of Mending, The
  
• Foreign Missions In Battle Array
  
• Galahad, Knight Who Perished
  
• Gamblers, The
  
• General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
  
• Genesis
  
• Ghosts In Love
  
• Ghosts Of The Buffaloes, The
  
• Haughty Snail-King, The
  
• Heart Of God
  
• Hearth Eternal, The
  
• Here's To The Mice!
  
• Honor Among Scamps
  
• Hope Of The Resurrection [Easter Stanzas], The
  
• How A Little Girl Danced
  
• How A Little Girl Sang
  
• How I Walked Alone In The Jungles Of Heaven
  
• How Samson Bore Away The Gates Of Gaza
  
• I Heard Immanuel Singing
  
• I Know All This When Gipsy Fiddles Cry
  
• I Went Down Into The Desert
  
• Illinois Village, The
  
• In Memory Of A Child
  
• In Praise Of Gloriana's Remarkable Golden Hair [Rhyme For Gloriana]
  
• In Praise Of Johnny Appleseed
  
• In Praise Of Songs That Die
  
• Incense
  
• Indian Summer Day On The Prairie, An
  
• Jingo And The Minstrel, The
  
• King Arthur's Men Have Come Again
  
• King Of Yellow Butterflies (A Poem Game), The
  
• Knight In Disguise, The
  
• Leaden-Eyed, The
  
• Light O' The Moon, The
  
• Lincoln
  
• Lion, The
  
• Look You, I'll Go Pray
  
• Love And Law
  
• Mae Marsh, Motion Picture Actress
  
• Mark Twain And Joan Of Arc
  
• Master Of The Dance, The
  
• Merciful Hand, The
  
• Michelangelo
  
• Moon Is A Painter, The
  
• Moon's The North Wind's Cooky, The
  
• Mouse That Gnawed The Oak-Tree Down, The
  
• My Lady In Her White Silk Shawl
  
• Mysterious Cat, The
  
• Net To Snare The Moonlight, A
  
• Niagara
  
• North Star Whispers To The Blacksmith's Son, The
  
• On Reading Omar Khayyam
  
• On Receiving One Of Gloriana's Letters [Rhyme For Gloriana]
  
• On Suddenly Receiving A Curl Long Refused [Rhyme For Gloriana]
  
• On The Building Of Springfield
  
• On The Garden-Wall
  
• On The Road To Nowhere
  
• Once More--To Gloriana
  
• Our Guardian Angels And Their Children
  
• Our Mother Pocahontas
  
• Parvenu
  
• Perfect Marriage, The
  
• Potato's Dance, The
  
• Potatoes' Dance (A Poem Game), The
  
• Prairie Battlements, The
  
• Prayer To All The Dead Among Mine Own People, A
  
• Prologue. A Sense Of Humor
  
• Proud Farmer, The
  
• Queen Mab In The Village
  
• Queen Of Bubbles, The
  
• Raft, The
  
• Rhyme About An Electrical Advertising Sign, A
  
• Rhymer's Reply. Incense And Splendor, The
  
• Santa Fe Trail, The
  
• Scissors-Grinder, The
  
• Shakespeare
  
• Song Of The Garden-Toad, The
  
• Sorceress!, The
  
• Soul Of The City Receives The Gift Of The Holy Spirit, The
  
• Spice-Tree, The
  
• Spider And The Ghost Of The Fly, The
  
• Springfield Magical
  
• St. Francis Of Assisi
  
• Star Of My Heart
  
• Strength Of The Lonely, The
  
• Sun Says His Prayers, The
  
• Sunshine, For A Very Little Girl, Not A Year Old
  
• Sweet Briars Of The Stairways
  
• Sweethearts Of The Year
  
• Tale Of The Tiger Tree, The
  
• This Section Is A Christmas Tree
  
• Titian
  
• To Buddha
  
• To Jane Addams At The Hague
  
• To Lady Jane
  
• To Mary Pickford, Moving-Picture Actress
  
• To Reformers In Despair
  
• To The United States Senate
  
• Trap, The
  
• Traveller-Heart, The
  
• Tree Of Laughing Bells, Or The Wings Of The Morning, The
  
• Two Old Crows
  
• Unpardonable Sin, The
  
• Upon Returning To The Country Road
  
• Voice Of The Man Impatient With Visions And Utopias, The
  
• We Meet At The Judgment And I Fear It Not [Easter Stanzas]
  
• Wedding Of The Rose And The Lotos, The
  
• What Semiramis Said
  
• What The Coal-Heaver Said
  
• What The Ghost Of The Gambler Said
  
• What The Gray-Winged Fairy Said
  
• What The Miner In The Desert Said
  
• What The Moon Saw
  
• What The Rattlesnake Said
  
• When Bryan Speaks
  
• When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich
  
• Where Is David, The Next King Of Israel?
  
• Where Is The Real Non-Resistant?
  
• Who Knows?
  
• Why I Voted The Socialist Ticket
  
• With A Bouquet Of Twelve Roses
  
• Wizard In The Street, The
  
• Written For A Musician
  
• Yankee Doodle
  
• Yet Gentle Will The Griffin Be
  

Biography of Vachel Lindsay [Top]

Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931):

(Vachel is pronounced Vay-chul, that is, it rhymes with 'Rachel').

Lindsay, Vachel. Born November 10, 1879. Educated at Hiram College, Ohio. He took up the study of art and studied at the Art Institute, Chicago, 1900-03 and at the New York School of Art, 1904-05. For a time after his technical study, he lectured upon art in its practical relation to the community, and returning to his home in Springfield, Illinois, issued what one might term his manifesto in the shape of "The Village Magazine", divided about equally between prose articles, pertaining to beautifying his native city, and poems, illustrated by his own drawings. Soon after this, Mr. Lindsay, taking as scrip for the journey, "Rhymes to be Traded for Bread", made a pilgrimage on foot through several Western States going as far afield as New Mexico. The story of this journey is given in his volume, "Adventures while Preaching the Gospel of Beauty". Mr. Lindsay first attracted attention in poetry by "General William Booth Enters into Heaven", a poem which became the title of his first volume, in 1913. His second volume was "The Congo", published in 1914. He is attempting to restore to poetry its early appeal as a spoken art, and his later work differs greatly from the selections contained in this anthology.

"The Eagle that is Forgotten" and "The Congo" are two of his best-known poems, and appear in his first two volumes of verse, "General William Booth Enters into Heaven" (1913) and "The Congo" (1914).

Lindsay himself considered his drawings and his prose writings to be as important as his verse, all coming together to form a whole. His "Collected Poems" (1925) gives a good selection.

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