Book: General William Booth Enters into Heaven and Other Poems

• General William Booth Enters Into Heaven

  [BASS DRUM BEATEN LOUDLY]
  Booth led boldly with his big bass drum—

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• At Mass

  No doubt to-morrow I will hide
  My face from you, my King.

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• The Knight In Disguise

  [Concerning O. Henry (Sidney Porter)]
  "He could not forget that he was a Sidney."

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• The Dandelion

  O dandelion, rich and haughty,
  King of village flowers!

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• Eden In Winter

  [Supposed to be chanted to some rude instrument at a modern fireplace]
  

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• The Eagle That Is Forgotten

  Sleep softly ... eagle forgotten ... under the stone.
  Time has its way with you there, and the clay has its own.

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• The Fairy Bridal-Hymn

  [This is the hymn to Eleanor, daughter of Mab and a golden drone, sung by the Locust choir when the fairy child marries her God, the yellow rose]
  

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• To Gloriana

  Girl with the burning golden eyes,
  And red-bird song, and snowy throat:

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• The Illinois Village

  O you who lose the art of hope,
  Whose temples seem to shrine a lie,

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• The Raft

  The whole world on a raft! A King is here,
  The record of his grandeur but a smear.

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• Titian

  Would that such hills and cities round us sang,
  Such vistas of the actual earth and man

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• The Drunkards In The Street

  The Drunkards in the street are calling one another,
  Heeding not the night-wind, great of heart and gay, —

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• The Tree Of Laughing Bells

  [A Poem for Aviators]
  

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• The City That Will Not Repent

  Climbing the heights of Berkeley
  Nightly I watch the West.

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• A Net To Snare The Moonlight

  [What the Man of Faith said]
  

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• The Trap

  She was taught desire in the street,
  Not at the angels' feet.

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• Why I Voted The Socialist Ticket

  I am unjust, but I can strive for justice.
  My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

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• Where Is David, The Next King Of Israel?

  Where is David? . . . O God's people,
  Saul has passed, the good and great.

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• Shakespeare

  Would that in body and spirit Shakespeare came
  Visible emperor of the deeds of Time,

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• On Reading Omar Khayyam

  [During an anti-saloon campaign, in central Illinois.]
  

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• The Cornfields

  The cornfields rise above mankind,
  Lifting white torches to the blue,

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• The Beggar's Valentine

  Kiss me and comfort my heart
  Maiden honest and fine.

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• Ghosts In Love

  "Tell me, where do ghosts in love
  Find their bridal veils?"

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• Honor Among Scamps

  We are the smirched. Queen Honor is the spotless.
  We slept thro' wars where Honor could not sleep.

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• The Sorceress!

  I asked her, "Is Aladdin's lamp
  Hidden anywhere?"

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• The Gamblers

  Life's a jail where men have common lot.
  Gaunt the one who has, and who has not.

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• Queen Mab In The Village

  Once I loved a fairy,
  Queen Mab it was. Her voice

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• On The Road To Nowhere

  On the road to nowhere
  What wild oats did you sow

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• The Song Of The Garden-Toad

  Down, down beneath the daisy beds,
  O hear the cries of pain!

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• Upon Returning To The Country Road

  Even the shrewd and bitter,
  Gnarled by the old world's greed,

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• To Reformers In Despair

  'Tis not too late to build our young land right,
  Cleaner than Holland, courtlier than Japan,

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• The Angel And The Clown

  I saw wild domes and bowers
  And smoking incense towers

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• To The United States Senate

  And must the Senator from Illinois
  Be this squat thing, with blinking, half-closed eyes?

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• Springfield Magical

  In this, the City of my Discontent,
  Sometimes there comes a whisper from the grass,

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• The Wizard In The Street

  [Concerning Edgar Allan Poe]
  

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• Incense

  Think not that incense-smoke has had its day.
  My friends, the incense-time has but begun.

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• Michaelangelo

  Would I might wake in you the whirl-wind soul
  Of Michelangelo, who hewed the stone

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• The Wedding Of The Rose And The Lotos

  The wide Pacific waters
  And the Atlantic meet.

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• Lincoln

  Would I might rouse the Lincoln in you all,
  That which is gendered in the wilderness

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• King Arthur's Men Have Come Again

  [Written while a field-worker in the Anti-Saloon League of Illinois.]
  

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• Sweet Briars Of The Stairways

  We are happy all the time
  Even when we fight:

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• Foreign Missions In Battle Array

  An endless line of splendor,
  These troops with heaven for home,

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• How A Little Girl Sang

  Ah, she was music in herself,
  A symphony of joyousness.

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• Star Of My Heart

  Star of my heart, I follow from afar.
  Sweet Love on high, lead on where shepherds are,

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• The Queen Of Bubbles

  [Written for a picture]
  

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• Look You, I'll Go Pray

  Look you, I'll go pray,
  My shame is crying,

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• Sweethearts Of The Year

  Sweetheart Spring
  Our Sweetheart, Spring, came softly,

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• Heart Of God

  O great heart of God,
  Once vague and lost to me,

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• Caught In A Net

  Upon her breast her hands and hair
  Were tangled all together.

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• The Empty Boats

  Why do I see these empty boats, sailing on airy seas?
  One haunted me the whole night long, swaying with every breeze,

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• Genesis

  I was but a half-grown boy,
  You were a girl-child slight.

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• With A Bouquet Of Twelve Roses

  I saw Lord Buddha towering by my gate
  Saying: "Once more, good youth, I stand and wait."

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• The Light O' The Moon

  [How different people and different animals look upon the moon: showing that each creature finds in it his own mood and disposition]
  

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• St. Francis Of Assisi

  Would I might wake St. Francis in you all,
  Brother of birds and trees, God's Troubadour,

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• Beyond The Moon

  [Written to the Most Beautiful Woman in the World]
  

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• Buddha

  Would that by Hindu magic we became
  Dark monks of jeweled India long ago,

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• The Proud Farmer

  [In memory of E. S. Frazee, Rush County, Indiana]
  

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• A Prayer To All The Dead Among Mine Own People

  Are these your presences, my clan from Heaven?
  Are these your hands upon my wounded soul?

  4 lines, 1 comment
• On The Building Of Springfield

  Let not our town be large, remembering
  That little Athens was the Muses' home,

  63 lines, 2 comments

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