Vachel Lindsay's Poetry, by popularity

• The Modest Jazz-Bird

  The Jazz-bird sings a barnyard song—
  A cock-a-doodle bray,

  23 lines
• The Conscientious Deacon

  (A song to be syncopated as you please)
  

  27 lines
• My Lady Is Compared To A Young Tree

  When I see a young tree
  In its white beginning,

  17 lines
• In Praise Of Gloriana’s Remarkable Golden Hair

  The gleaming head of one fine friend
  Is bent above my little song,

  18 lines
• John Bunny, Motion Picture Comedian

  In which he is remembered in similitude, by reference to Yorick,
  the king’s jester, who died when Hamlet and Ophelia were children.

  27 lines
• On Receiving One Of Gloriana’s Letters

  Your pen needs but a ruffle
  To be Pavlova whirling.

  16 lines
• God Send The Regicide

  Would that the lying rulers of the world
  Were brought to block for tyrannies abhorred.

  7 lines
• King Solomon And The Queen Of Sheba

  (A Poem Game.)
  “And when the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, . . .

  247 lines
• On Suddenly Receiving A Curl Long Refused

  Oh, saucy gold circle of fairyland silk—
  Impudent, intimate, delicate treasure:

  13 lines
• Once More—To Gloriana

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

  7 lines
• Speak Now For Peace

  Lady of Light, and our best woman, and queen,
  Stand now for peace, (though anger breaks your heart),

  10 lines
• What The Hyena Said

  The moon is but a golden skull,
  She mounts the heavens now,

  19 lines
• What The Snow Man Said

  The Moon’s a snowball.  See the drifts
  Of white that cross the sphere.

  18 lines
• The Doll Upon The Topmost Bough

  This doll upon the topmost bough,
  This playmate-gift, in Christmas dress,

  8 lines
• The Dangerous Little Boy Fairies

  In fairyland the little boys
  Would rather fight than eat their meals.

  7 lines
• The Beggar Speaks

  “What Mister Moon Said to Me.”
  Come, eat the bread of idleness,

  26 lines
• John Brown

  (To be sung by a leader and chorus, the leader singing
  the body of the poem, while the chorus interrupts with

  94 lines
• Simon Legree

  A Negro Sermon.
  (To be read in your own variety of negro dialect.)

  77 lines
• Two Easter Stanzas

    The Hope of the Resurrection
  

  47 lines
• The Voice Of The Man Impatient With Visions And Utopias

  We find your soft Utopias as white
  As new-cut bread, and dull as life in cells,

  19 lines
• The Rhymer’s Reply. Incense And Splendor

  Incense and Splendor haunt me as I go.
  Though my good works have been, alas, too few,

  27 lines
• The Old Horse In The City

  The moon’s a peck of corn.  It lies
  Heaped up for me to eat.

  13 lines
• The Mouse That Gnawed The Oak-Tree Down

  The mouse that gnawed the oak-tree down
  Began his task in early life.

  22 lines
• The Dreamer

  “Why do you seek the sun,
  In your Bubble-Crown ascending?

  19 lines
• Kalamazoo

  Once, in the city of Kalamazoo,
  The gods went walking, two and two,

  59 lines
• The Horrid Voice Of Science

  "There's machinery in the butterfly;
          There's a mainspring to the bee;

  13 lines
• What The Forester Said

  The moon is but a candle-glow
  That flickers thro’ the gloom:

  7 lines
• What The Scare-Crow Said

  The dim-winged spirits of the night
  Do fear and serve me well.

  13 lines
• What Grandpa Mouse Said

  The moon’s a holy owl-queen.
  She keeps them in a jar

  18 lines
• Parvenu

  Where does Cinderella sleep?
  By far-off day-dream river.

  8 lines

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