Poems by Vachel Lindsay
The Tale of the Tiger-Tree
... It shows how the mammoth forces may be either friends or enemies of the struggle for peace ...
The Ghosts of the Buffaloes
... Then... Snuffing the lightning that crashed from on high ...
A Net to Snare the Moonlight
... With the stars just overhead: A net to snare the moonlight, ...
The Broncho That Would Not Be Broken
... And they scourged you, with Hell in their speech and their faces, ...
The Sun Says His Prayers
... "The sun says his prayers," said the fairy, ...
Foreign Missions in Battle Array
... No bloodshed in the wrestling, ...
Lincoln
... Born where the ghosts of buffaloes still dream, ...
The Light o' the Moon
... ent animals look upon the moon: showing that each creature finds in it his own mood and disposition] ...
On Reading Omar Khayyam
... [During an anti-saloon campaign, in central Illinois ...
What the Moon Saw
... A satchel passed from hand to hand ...
Epitaphs For Two Players
... imilitude, by reference to Yorick, the king's jester, who died when Hamlet and Ophelia were children ...
The Gamblers
... Green farms for all, and meat and corn and wine ...
The Scissors-Grinder
... And those that scorned their brothers here ...
The Flower of Mending
... Of tender Mister Mouse,The pretty creatures go with haste ...
Alone in the Wind, on the Prairie
... And kiss her hair, and sweet throat like the snow ...