Vachel Lindsay's Poetry, by title

• A Colloquial Reply: To Any Newsboy

  If you lay for Iago at the stage door with a brick
  You have missed the moral of the play.

  7 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
• A Dirge For A Righteous Kitten

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

  13 lines, 1 comment
• A Net To Snare The Moonlight

  [What the Man of Faith said]
  

  21 lines
• 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
• 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
• Above The Battle's Front

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

  18 lines
• Abraham Lincoln Walks At Midnight

  (In Springfield, Illinois)
  It is portentous, and a thing of state

  40 lines, 3 comments
• Aladdin And The Jinn

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

  41 lines
• Alone In The Wind, On The Prairie

  I know a seraph who has golden eyes,
  And hair of gold, and body like the snow.

  15 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
• An Argument

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

  50 lines
• An Indian Summer Day On The Prairie

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

  26 lines, 1 comment
• At Mass

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

  12 lines
• Beyond The Moon

  [Written to the Most Beautiful Woman in the World]
  

  21 lines
• Blanche Sweet

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

  46 lines
• Buddha

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

  8 lines, 1 comment
• By The Spring, At Sunset

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

  17 lines
• Caught In A Net

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

  12 lines
• Concerning Emperors

  I. GOD SEND THE REGICIDE
  Would that the lying rulers of the world

  18 lines
• Crickets On A Strike

  The foolish queen of fairyland
  From her milk-white throne in a lily-bell,

  8 lines
• Darling Daughter Of Babylon

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

  43 lines
• Davy Jones' Door-Bell

  A Chant for Boys with Manly Voices
  (Every line sung one step deeper than the line preceding)

  22 lines
• Drying Their Wings

  What the Carpenter Said
  

  13 lines
• Eden In Winter

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

  89 lines
• Edwin Booth

  An old actor at the Player’s Club told me that Edwin Booth
  first impersonated Hamlet when a barnstormer in California.

  62 lines
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  Sat gossiping with Robert.

  7 lines
• Epilogue

  UNDER THE BLESSING OF YOUR PSYCHE WINGS
  

  17 lines
• Epitaphs For Two Players

  I. EDWIN BOOTH
  An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a barnstormer in California. There were few theatre

  73 lines

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