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Vachel Lindsay's Poetry, by first line

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  • Two Old Crows
    Two old crows sat on a fence rail.
    Two old crows sat on a&nbs
    27 lines
  • The Lion
    The Lion is a kingly beast.
    He likes a Hindu for a feast.
    8 lines
  • At Mass
    No doubt to-morrow I will hide
    My face from you, my King.
    12 lines
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    Sat gossiping with Robert.
    7 lines
  • The Dandelion
    O dandelion, rich and haughty,
    King of village flowers!
    12 lines
  • Drying Their Wings
    What the Carpenter Said
    13 lines
  • 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.
    21 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
  • The Flower-Fed Buffaloes
    The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring
    In the days of long ago,
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • The Prairie Battlements
    (To Edgar Lee Masters, with great respect)
    29 lines
  • To Gloriana
    Girl with the burning golden eyes,
    And red-bird song, and snowy throat:
    8 lines
  • What Semiramis Said
    The moon's a steaming chalice,
    Of honey and venom-wine.
    12 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 Mysterious Cat
    A chant for a children's pantomime dance, suggested by a picture painted by George Mather Richards.
    24 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
  • 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
  • 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 Perfect Marriage
    I
    I hate this yoke; for the world's sake here put it on:
    49 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 Sun Says His Prayers
    "The sun says his prayers," said the fairy,
    Or else he would wither and die.
    8 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
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