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

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