English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. Look You, I’ll Go Pray. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) * * * Look you, I’ll go pray, My shame is crying, My soul is gray and faint, My faith is dying. Look you, I’ll go pray — ”Sweet Mary, make me clean, Thou rainstorm of the […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The Raft. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) The Raft The whole world on a raft! A King is here, The record of his grandeur but a smear. Is it his deacon-beard, or old bald pate That makes the band upon his whims to wait? Loot and mud-honey have his soul […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The Master of the Dance. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) 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. I A master deep-eyed Ere his manhood was ripe, He sang like a thrush, He […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. Galahad, Knight Who Perished. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) Galahad, Knight Who Perished A POEM DEDICATED TO ALL CRUSADERS AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL AND INTERSTATE TRAFFIC IN YOUNG GIRLS Galahad . . . soldier that perished . . . ages ago, Our hearts are breaking with shame, our tears overflow. Galahad […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. Epilogue. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) Epilogue UNDER THE BLESSING OF YOUR PSYCHE WINGS Though I have found you llke a snow-drop pale, On sunny days have found you weak and still, Though I have often held your girlish head Drooped on my shoulder, faint from little ill:— […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. Concerning Emperors. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) Concerning Emperors I. GOD SEND THE REGICIDE Would that the lying rulers of the world Were brought to block for tyrannies abhorred. Would that the sword of Cromwell and the Lord, The sword of Joshua and Gideon, Hewed hip and thigh the hosts […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Beauty and the Bird. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) Beauty and the Bird SHE fluted with her mouth as when one sips, And gently waved her golden head, inclin’d Outside his cage close to the window-blind; Till her fond bird, with little turns and dips, Piped low to her of sweet […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The Traveller-Heart. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) The Traveller-Heart (To a Man who maintained that the Mausoleum is the Stateliest Possible Manner of Interment) I would be one with the dark, dark earth:– Follow the plough with a yokel tread. I would be part of the Indian corn, […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The City That Will Not Repent. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) The City That Will Not Repent Climbing the heights of Berkeley Nightly I watch the West. There lies new San Francisco, Sea-maid in purple dressed, Wearing a dancer’s girdle All to inflame desire: Scorning her days of […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. Sweethearts of the Year. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) Sweethearts of the Year Sweetheart Spring Our Sweetheart, Spring, came softly, Her gliding hands were fire, Her lilac breath upon our cheeks Consumed us with desire. By her our God began to build, Began to sow […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The Jingo and the Minstrel. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) 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 Tenno, ancestor of all the Japanese Emperors; Nikko, Japan’s loveliest shrine; Iyeyasu, her greatest […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. I Went Down into the Desert. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) * * * I went down into the desert To meet Elijah— Arisen from the dead. I thought to. find him in an echoing cave; For so my dream had said. I went down into the desert To meet John the Baptist. […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. Above the Battle’s Front. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) Above the Battle’s Front St. Francis, Buddha, Tolstoi, and St. John — Friends, if you four, as pilgrims, hand in hand, Returned, the hate of earth once more to dare, And walked upon the water and the land, If you, with words […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. In Praise of Songs that Die. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) In Praise of Songs that Die AFTER HAVING READ A GREAT DEAL OF GOOD CURRENT POETRY IN THE MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS Ah, they are passing, passing by, Wonderful songs, but born to die! Cries from the infinite human seas, Waves thrice-winged […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) 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. It’s Etna, or Vesuvius, if those big things were small, And then ’tis but itself again, […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The Alchemist’s Petition. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) The Alchemist’s Petition Thou wilt not sentence to eternal life My soul that prays that it may sleep and sleep Like a white statue dropped into the deep, Covered with sand, covered with chests of gold, And slave-bones, tossed from many a pirate […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. To Buddha. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) To Buddha Awake again in Asia, Lord of Peace, Awake and preach, for her far swordsmen rise. And would they sheathe the sword before you, friend, Or scorn your way, while looking in your eyes? Good comrade and philosopher and prince, Thoughtful […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. My Sister’s Sleep. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) My Sister’s Sleep She fell asleep on Christmas Eve: At length the long-ungranted shade Of weary eyelids overweigh’d The pain nought else might yet relieve. Our mother, who had lean’d all day Over the bed from chime to chime, Then rais’d […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. Titian. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) Titian Would that such hills and cities round us sang, Such vistas of the actual earth and man As kindled Titian when his life began; Would that this latter Greek could put his gold, Wisdom and splendor in our […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotos. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotos The wide Pacific waters And the Atlantic meet. With cries of joy they mingle, In tides of love they greet. Above the drowned ages A wind of wooing blows: — […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. What the Rattlesnake Said. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) What the Rattlesnake Said The moon’s a little prairie-dog. He shivers through the night. He sits upon his hill and cries For fear that I will bite. The sun’s a broncho. He’s afraid Like every other thing, And trembles, morning, noon and […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. Michaelangelo. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) Michaelangelo Would I might wake in you the whirl-wind soul Of Michelangelo, who hewed the stone And Night and Day revealed, whose arm alone Could draw the face of God, the titan high Whose genius smote like lightning from […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. My Lady in Her White Silk Shawl. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) * * * My lady in her white silk shawl Is like a lily dim, Within the twilight of the room Enthroned and kind and prim. My lady! Pale gold is her hair. Until she smiles her face Is pale with far […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The Fairy Bridal-Hymn. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) The Fairy Bridal-Hymn [This is the hymn to Eleanor, daughter of Mab and a golden drone, sung by the Locust choir when the fairy child marries her God, the yellow rose] This is a song to the white-armed one Cold in […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. Alone in the Wind, on the Prairie. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) Alone in the Wind, on the Prairie I know a seraph who has golden eyes, And hair of gold, and body like the snow. Here in the wind I dream her unbound hair Is blowing round me, that desire’s sweet glow Has touched […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The Flower of Mending. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) The Flower of Mending (To Eudora, after I had had certain dire adventures) When Dragon-fly would fix his wings, When Snail would patch his house, When moths have marred the overcoat Of tender Mister Mouse, The pretty creatures go with haste To […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The Light o’ the Moon. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) The Light o’ the Moon [How different people and different animals look upon the moon: showing that each creature finds in it his own mood and disposition] The Old Horse in the City The moon’s a peck of corn. It […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. Lincoln. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) Lincoln Would I might rouse the Lincoln in you all, That which is gendered in the wilderness From lonely prairies and God’s tenderness. Imperial soul, star of a weedy stream, Born where the ghosts of buffaloes still dream, […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life. Sonnet 77. Soul’s Beauty. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) The House of Life. Sonnet 77. Soul’s Beauty Under the arch of Life, where love and death, Terror and mystery, guard her shrine, I saw Beauty enthroned; and though her gaze struck awe, I drew it in as simply as my breath. […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. Foreign Missions in Battle Array. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) Foreign Missions in Battle Array An endless line of splendor, These troops with heaven for home, With creeds they go from Scotland, With incense go from Rome. These, in the name of Jesus, Against the dark gods stand, […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The Broncho That Would Not Be Broken. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) The Broncho That Would Not Be Broken A little colt — broncho, loaned to the farm To be broken in time without fury or harm, Yet black crows flew past you, shouting alarm, Calling ”Beware,” with lugubrious singing… The butterflies there in the […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. A Net to Snare the Moonlight. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) A Net to Snare the Moonlight [What the Man of Faith said] The dew, the rain and moonlight All prove our Father’s mind. The dew, the rain and moonlight Descend to bless mankind. Come, let us see that […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The Tale of the Tiger-Tree. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) The Tale of the Tiger-Tree A Fantasy, dedicated to the little poet Alice Oliver Henderson, ten years old. The Fantasy shows how tiger-hearts are the cause of war in all ages. It shows how the mammoth forces may be either friends […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven Oh, once I walked in Heaven, all alone Upon the sacred cliffs above the sky. God and the angels, and the gleaming saints Had journeyed out into the stars to die. They had […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. Our Guardian Angels and Their Children. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) Our Guardian Angels and Their Children Where a river roars in rapids And doves in maples fret, Where peace has decked the pastures Our guardian angels met. Long they had sought each other In God’s mysterious name, Had climbed the solemn chaos […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life’s unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. How Samson Bore Away the Gates of Gaza. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) How Samson Bore Away the Gates of Gaza (A Negro Sermon) Once, in a night as black as ink, She drove him out when he would not drink. Round the house there were men in wait Asleep in rows by the Gaza gate. […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The Wizard in the Street. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) The Wizard in the Street [Concerning Edgar Allan Poe] Who now will praise the Wizard in the street With loyal songs, with humors grave and sweet — This Jingle-man, of strolling players born, Whom holy folk have hurried by in […]
English Poetry. Vachel Lindsay. The Proud Farmer. Вэчел Линдсей.
Vachel Lindsay (Вэчел Линдсей) The Proud Farmer [In memory of E. S. Frazee, Rush County, Indiana] Into the acres of the newborn state He poured his strength, and plowed his ancient name, And, when the traders followed him, he stood Towering above their furtive […]
English Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Jenny. Данте Габриэль Россетти.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти) Jenny Lazy laughing languid Jenny, Fond of a kiss and fond of a guinea, Whose head upon my knee to-night Rests for a while, as if grown light With all our dances and the sound To which the wild tunes spun you […]