Fiction · 1917
The Chinese Nightingale, and Other Poems
The Chinese Nightingale, and Other Poems, first published in 1917, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Note
- This Book is Dedicated to Sara Teasdale, Poet
- The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems
- I — Speak Now for Peace
- II — Tolstoi Is Plowing Yet
- I — God Send the Regicide
- II — A Colloquial Reply: To Any Newsboy
- I — Edwin Booth
- II — John Bunny, Motion Picture Comedian
- The Broncho that Would Not Be Broken
- The Prairie Battlements
- The Flower of Mending
- Alone in the Wind, on the Prairie
- To Lady Jane
- How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven
- An Account of the Poem Games
- The King of Yellow Butterflies
- The Potatoes’ Dance
- The Booker Washington Trilogy
- I — Simon Legree
- II — John Brown
- III — King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
- How Samson Bore Away the Gates of Gaza
- A Handy Guide for Beggars
- The Congo and Other Poems
- General William Booth Enters Into Heaven and Other Poems
- Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty
- The Art of the Moving Picture
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1879–1931 · Modern
Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931) was an American poet born in Springfield, Illinois. He studied art before turning to poetry and became known for his "singing poetry," performed aloud with a chanting, rhythmic delivery, and for wandering the country on foot trading poems and pamphlets for food and lodging. "General William Booth Enters into Heaven" (1913) and "The Congo" (1914) made his name. He died in Springfield at fifty-two.
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