Vachel Lindsay
Writer
November 10, 1879 – December 5, 1931
Credits:
Poems:
Movie and television:
Dead Poets Society (poem The
Congo quoted) (1989); The Fantasmagori (2017).
A Curse for Kings; A Dirge for a
Righteous Kitten; A Net to Snare the Moonlight; A Prayer To All The Dead Among
Mine Own People; A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign; A Sense of
Humor; Above the Battle's Front; Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight; Aladdin and
the Jinn; Alone in the Wind, on the Prairie; An Apology for the Bottle
Volcanic; An Argument; An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie; At Mass; Beyond the
Moon; Blanche Sweet; Buddha; By the Spring, at Sunset; Caught in a Net;
Concerning Emperors; Darling Daughter of Babylon; Drying Their Wings; Eden in
Winter; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Epilogue; Epitaphs For Two Players; Euclid;
Factory Windows Are Always Broken; Foreign Missions in Battle Array; Galahad,
Knight Who Perished; General William Booth Enters into Heaven; Genesis; Ghosts
in Love; Heart of God; Here's to the Mice!; Honor Among Scamps; How a Little
Girl Danced; How a Little Girl Sang; How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of
Heaven; How Samson Bore Away the Gates of GazaI Heard Immanuel Singing; I Went
Down into the Desert; In Memory of a Child; In Praise of Songs that Die;
Incense; King Arthur's Men Have Come Again; Lincoln; Look You, I'll Go Pray;
Love and Law; Mae Marsh, Motion Picture Actress; Mark Twain and Joan of Arc;
Michaelangelo; My Lady in Her White Silk Shawl; Niagara; On Reading Omar
Khayyam; On the Building of Springfield; On the Garden Wall; On the Road to
Nowhere; Our Guardian Angels and Their Children; Our Mother Pocahontas;
Popcorn, Glass Balls, and Cranberries; Prologue to Rhymes to be Traded for
Bread; Queen Mab in the Village; Rhymes for Gloriana; Shakespeare; Springfield
Magical; St. Francis of Assisi; Star of My Heart; Sunshine; Sweet Briars of the
Stairways; Sweethearts of the Year; The Alchemist's Petition; The Amaranth; The
Angel and the Clown; The Bankrupt Peace-Maker; The Beggar's Valentine; The
Black Hawk War of the Artists; The Booker Washington Trilogy; The Broncho That
Would Not Be Broken; The Chinese Nightingale; The City That Will Not Repent;
The Congo; The Cornfields; The Dandelion; The Drunkard's Funeral; The Drunkards
in the Street; The Eagle That Is Forgotten; The Empty Boats; The Encyclopaedia;
The Fairy Bridal-Hymn; The Firemen's Ball; The Flower of Mending; The
Flower-Fed Buffaloes; The Gamblers; The Ghosts of the Buffaloes; The Haughty
Snail-King; The Hearth Eternal; The Hope of the Resurrection; The Illinois
Village; The Jingo and the Minstrel; The King of Yellow Butterflies; The Knight
in Disguise; The Leaden-Eyed; The Light o' the Moon; The Lion; The Little
Turtle; The Master of the Dance; The Merciful Hand; The Moon is a Painter; The
Moon's the North Wind's Cooky; The Mysterious Cat; The North Star Whispers to
the Blacksmith's Son; The Perfect Marriage; The Potatoes' Dance; The Prairie
Battlements; The Proud Farmer; The Queen of Bubbles; The Raft; The Rose of
Midnight; The Santa-Fe Trail (A Humoresque); The Scissors-Grinder; The Song of
the Garden-Toad; The Sorceress!; The Soul of the City Receives the Gift of the
Holy Spirit; The Spice-Tree; The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly; The Strength
of the Lonely; The Sun Says His Prayers; The Tale Of The Tiger-Tree; The Trap;
The Traveller-Heart; The Tree of Laughing Bells; The Unpardonable Sin; The
Wedding of the Rose and the Lotos; The Wizard in the Street; This Section is a
Christmas Tree; This, My Song, Is Made For Kerensky; TitianTo Buddha; To
Gloriana; To Jane Addams at the Hague; To Lady Jane; To Mary Pickford; To
Reformers in Despair; To the United States Senate; Two Old Crows; Upon
Returning to the Country Road; We Meet at the Judgment and I Fear It Not; What
Semiramis Said; What the Coal-Heaver Said; What the Ghost of the Gambler Said;
What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said; What the Miner in the Desert Said; What the
Moon Saw; What the Rattlesnake Said; What the Sexton Said; When Bryan Speaks;
When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich; Where Is David, the Next King of Israel?;
Where Is the Real Non-Resistant; Who Knows?; Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket;
With a Bouquet of Twelve Roses; Written for a Musician; Yankee Doodle; Yet
Gentle Will the Griffin Be.
