Vachel Lindsay's Poetry, by written

• The Modest Jazz-Bird

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

  23 lines
• In Memory Of A Child

    The angels guide him now,
    And watch his curly head,

  22 lines, 1 comment
• At Mass

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

  12 lines
• 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
• The Dandelion

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

  12 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
• The Flower-Fed Buffaloes

  The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring
  In the days of long ago,

  13 lines, 1 comment
• 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
• The Prairie Battlements

  (To Edgar Lee Masters, with great respect)
  

  29 lines
• Prologue To Rhymes To Be Traded For Bread

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

  24 lines
• The Rose Of Midnight

  The moon is now an opening flower,
        The sky a cliff of blue.

  23 lines
• This Section Is A Christmas Tree

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

  11 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
• 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

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