Book: The Congo and Other Poems

• The Spider And The Ghost Of The Fly

    Once I loved a spider
    When I was born a fly,

  11 lines, 1 comment
• An Indian Summer Day On The Prairie

  (IN THE BEGINNING)
  The sun is a huntress young,

  26 lines, 1 comment
• A Rhyme About An Electrical Advertising Sign

  I look on the specious electrical light
  Blatant, mechanical, crawling and white,

  24 lines
• A Sense Of Humor

  No man should stand before the moon
  To make sweet song thereon,

  18 lines
• Drying Their Wings

  What the Carpenter Said
  

  13 lines
• Euclid

  Old Euclid drew a circle
  On a sand-beach long ago.

  12 lines
• Factory Windows Are Always Broken

  Factory windows are always broken.
  Somebody's always throwing bricks,

  12 lines
• Love And Law

  True Love is founded in rocks of Remembrance
  In stones of Forbearance and mortar of pain.

  8 lines
• The North Star Whispers To The Blacksmith's Son

  The North Star whispers: "You are one
  Of those whose course no chance can change.

  23 lines
• On The Garden Wall

  Oh, once I walked a garden
  In dreams. 'Twas yellow grass.

  19 lines, 1 comment
• This Section Is A Christmas Tree

  This section is a Christmas tree:
  Loaded with pretty toys for you.

  11 lines
• What Semiramis Said

  The moon's a steaming chalice,
  Of honey and venom-wine.

  12 lines
• What The Ghost Of The Gambler Said

  Where now the huts are empty,
  Where never a camp-fire glows,

  15 lines
• Written For A Musician

  Hungry for music with a desperate hunger
  I prowled abroad, I threaded through the town;

  8 lines
• A Curse For Kings

  A curse upon each king who leads his state,
  No matter what his plea, to this foul game,

  53 lines, 1 comment
• Aladdin And The Jinn

  "Bring me soft song," said Aladdin.
  "This tailor-shop sings not at all.

  41 lines
• The Traveller-Heart

  (To a Man who maintained that the Mausoleum is the Stateliest Possible Manner of Interment)
  

  29 lines
• To Buddha

  Awake again in Asia, Lord of Peace,
  Awake and preach, for her far swordsmen rise.

  12 lines
• The Santa-Fe Trail (A Humoresque)

  I asked the old Negro, "What is that bird that sings so well?" He answered: "That is the Rachel-Jane." "Hasn't it another name, lark, or thrush, or the like?

  158 lines
• The Firemen's Ball

  SECTION ONE
  "Give the engines room,

  225 lines
• The Master Of The Dance

  A chant to which it is intended a group of children shall dance and improvise pantomime led by their dancing-teacher.
  

  164 lines
• The Mysterious Cat

  A chant for a children's pantomime dance, suggested by a picture painted by George Mather Richards.
  

  24 lines, 1 comment
• A Dirge For A Righteous Kitten

  Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong.
  Here lies a kitten good, who kept

  13 lines, 1 comment
• Yankee Doodle

  This poem is intended as a description of a sort of Blashfield mural painting on the sky. To be sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle, yet in a slower, more orot

  61 lines
• The Black Hawk War Of The Artists

  WRITTEN FOR LORADO TAFT'S STATUE OF BLACK HAWK AT OREGON, ILLINOIS
  To be given in the manner of the Indian Oration and the Indian Wa

  57 lines
• The Jingo And The Minstrel

  AN ARGUMENT FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND GOODWILL WITH THE JAPANESE PEOPLE
  Glossary for the uninstructed and the hasty: Jimmu Te

  93 lines
• I Heard Immanuel Singing

  (The poem shows the Master, with his work done, singing to free his heart in Heaven.)
  

  77 lines
• An Argument

  I. THE VOICE OF THE MAN IMPATIENT WITH VISIONS AND UTOPIAS
  We find your soft Utopias as white

  50 lines
• Galahad, Knight Who Perished

  Galahad . . . soldier that perished . . . ages ago,
  Our hearts are breaking with shame, our tears overflow.

  15 lines
• The Leaden-Eyed

  Let not young souls be smothered out before
  They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride.

  8 lines, 3 comments
• The Hearth Eternal

  There dwelt a widow learned and devout,
  Behind our hamlet on the eastern hill.

  40 lines
• The Soul Of The City Receives The Gift Of The Holy Spirit

  A BROADSIDE DISTRIBUTED IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS
  

  55 lines
• By The Spring, At Sunset

  Sometimes we remember kisses,
  Remember the dear heart-leap when they came:

  17 lines
• The Perfect Marriage

  I
  I hate this yoke; for the world's sake here put it on:

  49 lines
• Darling Daughter Of Babylon

  Too soon you wearied of our tears.
  And then you danced with spangled feet,

  43 lines
• The Amaranth

  Ah, in the night, all music haunts me here. . . .
  Is it for naught high Heaven cracks and yawns

  16 lines
• The Alchemist's Petition

  Thou wilt not sentence to eternal life
  My soul that prays that it may sleep and sleep

  11 lines
• The Hope Of The Resurrection

  Though I have watched so many mourners weep
  O'er the real dead, in dull earth laid asleep—

  15 lines
• We Meet At The Judgment And I Fear It Not

  Though better men may fear that trumpet's warning,
  I meet you, lady, on the Judgment morning,

  23 lines
• The Sun Says His Prayers

  "The sun says his prayers," said the fairy,
  Or else he would wither and die.

  8 lines
• Popcorn, Glass Balls, And Cranberries

  I. THE LION
  The Lion is a kingly beast.

  100 lines
• How A Little Girl Danced

  DEDICATED TO LUCY BATES
  (Being a reminiscence of certain private theatricals.)

  38 lines
• In Praise Of Songs That Die

  AFTER HAVING READ A GREAT DEAL OF GOOD CURRENT POETRY IN THE MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS
  

  16 lines
• To Mary Pickford

  MOVING-PICTURE ACTRESS
  (On hearing she was leaving the moving-pictures for the stage.)

  34 lines
• Blanche Sweet

  MOVING-PICTURE ACTRESS
  (After seeing the reel called "Oil and Water.")

  46 lines
• Sunshine

  FOR A VERY LITTLE GIRL, NOT A YEAR OLD.
  CATHARINE FRAZEE WAKEFIELD.

  39 lines
• An Apology For The Bottle Volcanic

  Sometimes I dip my pen and find the bottle full of fire,
  The salamanders flying forth I cannot but admire.

  19 lines
• When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich

  He paid a Swede twelve bits an hour
  Just to invent a fancy style

  36 lines
• Rhymes For Gloriana

  I. THE DOLL UPON THE TOPMOST BOUGH
  

  73 lines
• The Haughty Snail-King

  Twelve snails went walking after night.
  They'd creep an inch or so,

  19 lines
• What The Rattlesnake Said

  The moon's a little prairie-dog.
  He shivers through the night.

  8 lines
• The Moon's The North Wind's Cooky

  The Moon's the North Wind's cooky.
  He bites it, day by day,

  8 lines
• What The Gray-Winged Fairy Said

  The moon's a gong, hung in the wild,
  Whose song the fays hold dear.

  8 lines
• Yet Gentle Will The Griffin Be

  (What Grandpa told the Children)
  

  14 lines
• The Moon Is A Painter

  He coveted her portrait.
  He toiled as she grew gay.

  23 lines
• The Encyclopaedia

  "If I could set the moon upon
  This table," said my friend,

  8 lines, 2 comments
• What The Miner In The Desert Said

  The moon's a brass-hooped water-keg,
  A wondrous water-feast.

  11 lines
• What The Coal-Heaver Said

  The moon's an open furnace door
  Where all can see the blast,

  12 lines
• What The Moon Saw

  Two statesmen met by moonlight.
  Their ease was partly feigned.

  11 lines, 1 comment
• The Spice-Tree

  This is the song
  The spice-tree sings:

  37 lines
• The Scissors-Grinder

  The old man had his box and wheel
  For grinding knives and shears.

  40 lines
• My Lady In Her White Silk Shawl

  My lady in her white silk shawl
  Is like a lily dim,

  23 lines
• The Strength Of The Lonely

  (What the Mendicant Said )
  

  11 lines
• Who Knows?

  They say one king is mad. Perhaps. Who knows?
  They say one king is doddering and grey.

  8 lines
• The Unpardonable Sin

  This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: —
  To speak of bloody power as right divine,

  16 lines
• Above The Battle's Front

  St. Francis, Buddha, Tolstoi, and St. John —
  Friends, if you four, as pilgrims, hand in hand,

  18 lines
• Epilogue

  UNDER THE BLESSING OF YOUR PSYCHE WINGS
  

  17 lines
• Here's To The Mice!

  (Written with the hope that the socialists might yet dethrone Kaiser and Czar.)
  

  18 lines

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