Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)

The Rating of Vachel Lindsay's Poems

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

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