Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)

The Rating of Vachel Lindsay's Poems

1. The Ghosts of the Buffaloes
2. Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
3. Niagara
4. What the Coal-Heaver Said
5. Shakespeare
6. An Indian Summer Day on the Prarie
7. The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race
8. Aladdin and the Jinn
9. Lincoln
10. General William Booth Enters into Heaven
11. Factory Windows are Always Broken
12. An Argument
13. The Tale of the Tiger-Tree
14. Sunshine
15. A Sense of Humor
16. King Arthur’s Men Have Come Again
17. The Dandelion
18. How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven
19. The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotos
20. Epitaphs for Two Players
21. On the Garden Wall
22. The Little Turtle
23. Two Old Crows
24. Genesis
25. The Knight in Disguise
26. Caught in a Net
27. The Gamblers
28. The Mysterious Cat
29. Rhymes for Gloriana
30. Euclid
31. Drying Their Wings
32. Ghosts in Love
33. A Curse for Kings
34. I Heard Immanuel Singing
35. My Lady in Her White Silk Shawl
36. We Meet at the Judgment and I Fear It Not
37. The Broncho That Would Not Be Broken
38. The Jingo and the Minstrel
39. The Sun Says His Prayers
40. Eden in Winter
41. Our Guardian Angels and Their Children
42. This, My Song, Is Made For Kerensky
43. A Net to Snare the Moonlight
44. To Lady Jane
45. Who Knows?
46. Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be
47. Galahad, Knight Who Perished
48. The Flower-Fed Buffaloes
49. This Section is a Christmas Tree
50. I Went Down into the Desert
51. Epilogue
52. Upon Returning to the Country Road
53. The Rose of Midnight
54. The Firemen’s Ball
55. The Proud Farmer
56. Popcorn, Glass Balls, and Cranberries
57. The Drunkard’s Funeral
58. The Queen of Bubbles
59. On Reading Omar Khayyam
60. The Santa-Fe Trail
61. Yankee Doodle
62. The Tree of Laughing Bells
63. Blanche Sweet
64. The Sorceress!
65. A Dirge for a Righteous Kitten
66. The North Star Whispers to the Blacksmith’s Son
67. The Unpardonable Sin
68. In Memory of a Child
69. Concerning Emperors
70. Darling Daughter of Babylon
71. What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said
72. How a Little Girl Danced
73. The Chinese Nightingale
74. Queen Mab in the Village
75. How a Little Girl Sang
76. To Mary Pickford
77. Love and Law
78. The Amaranth
79. The Soul of the City Receives the Gift of the Holy Spirit
80. Mae Marsh, Motion Picture Actress
81. The Moon is a Painter
82. Beyond the Moon
83. The Flower of Mending
84. Above the Battle’s Front
85. Look You, I’ll Go Pray
86. The Black Hawk War of the Artists
87. When Bryan Speaks
88. The Merciful Hand
89. Where Is David, the Next King of Israel?
90. On the Building of Springfield
91. The Perfect Marriage
92. The Angel and the Clown
93. When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich
94. The Hope of the Resurrection
95. St. Francis of Assisi
96. To Reformers in Despair
97. By the Spring, at Sunset
98. Mark Twain and Joan of Arc
99. The Booker Washington Trilogy
100. The Song of the Garden-Toad
101. What the Sexton Said
102. The Eagle That is Forgotten
103. What the Ghost of the Gambler Said
104. The Wizard in the Street
105. Alone in the Wind, on the Prairie
106. Titian
107. To Buddha
108. The Leaden-Eyed
109. A Prayer to All the Dead among Mine Own People
110. Springfield Magical
111. To Gloriana
112. An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic
113. In Praise of Songs that Die
114. The Traveller-Heart
115. A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign
116. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
117. The Strength of the Lonely
118. Here’s to the Mice!
119. The Haughty Snail-King
120. The Trap
121. The Cornfields
122. With a Bouquet of Twelve Roses
123. Star of My Heart
124. Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket
125. Foreign Missions in Battle Array
126. The Fairy Bridal-Hymn
127. To Jane Addams at the Hague
128. What the Miner in the Desert Said
129. Sweet Briars of the Stairways
130. Buddha
131. Honor Among Scamps
132. Incense
133. Written for a Musician
134. The Bankrupt Peace-Maker
135. At Mass
136. Heart of God
137. On the Road to Nowhere
138. The Light o’ the Moon
139. What the Rattlesnake Said
140. The Beggar’s Valentine
141. What Semiramis Said
142. The Prarie Battlements
143. The King of Yellow Butterflies
144. What the Moon Saw
145. The Scissors-Grinder
146. The Encyclopaedia
147. The Potatoes’ Dance
148. Our Mother Pocahontas
149. The Moon’s the North Wind’s Cooky
150. The Empty Boats
151. How Samson Bore Away the Gates of Gaza
152. The Spice-Tree
153. Michaelangelo
154. The Master of the Dance
155. The Raft
156. Where Is the Real Non-Resistant
157. The Drunkards in the Street
158. The Alchemist’s Petition
159. Sweethearts of the Year
160. The City That Will Not Repent
161. To the United States Senate
162. The Hearth Eternal
163. The Illinois Village

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