The Congo, and Other Poems
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. This book is printed in black & white, Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Reprinted in 2022 with the help of original edition published long back 1914. As this book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages. If it is multi vo Resized as per current standards. We expect that you will understand our compulsion with such books. 182 The Congo, and other ...
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- THE CONGO AND OTHER POEMS
- [Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Illinois Artist. 1879-1931.]
- With an introduction by Harriet Monroe Editor of "Poetry"
- THE CONGO AND OTHER POEMS
- Introduction. By Harriet Monroe
- First Section ~~ Poems intended to be read aloud, or chanted.
- The Congo
- A Study of the Negro Race
- The Santa Fe Trail
- The Firemen's Ball
- The Master of the Dance
- The Mysterious Cat
- A Dirge for a Righteous Kitten
- Yankee Doodle
- The Black Hawk War of the Artists
- Written for Lorado Taft's Statue of Black Hawk at Oregon, Illinois
- The Jingo and the Minstrel
- I Heard Immanuel Singing
- Second Section ~~ Incense
- An Argument
- A Rhyme about an Electrical Advertising Sign
- In Memory of a Child
- Galahad, Knight Who Perished
- The Leaden-eyed
- An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie
- The Hearth Eternal
- The Soul of the City Receives the Gift of the Holy Spirit
- I Went down into the Desert
- Love and Law
- The Perfect Marriage
- Darling Daughter of Babylon
- The Amaranth
- The Alchemist's Petition
- Two Easter Stanzas
- The Traveller-heart
- The North Star Whispers to the Blacksmith's Son
- Third Section ~~ A Miscellany called "the Christmas Tree"
- This Section is a Christmas Tree
- The Sun Says his Prayers
- Popcorn, Glass Balls, and Cranberries (As it were)
- How a Little Girl Danced
- Dedicated to Lucy Bates
- In Praise of Songs that Die
- Factory Windows are always Broken
- To Mary Pickford
- Blanche Sweet
- Sunshine
- For a Very Little Girl, Not a Year Old. Catharine Frazee Wakefield.
- An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic
- When Gassy Thompson Struck it Rich
- Rhymes for Gloriana
- Fourth Section ~~ Twenty Poems in which the Moon is the Principal Figure of Speech
- Once More—To Gloriana
- First Section: Moon Poems for the Children/Fairy-tales for the Children
- Second Section: The Moon is a Mirror
- Fifth Section
- War. September 1, 1914 Intended to be Read Aloud
- I. Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
- II. A Curse for Kings
- III. Who Knows?
- IV. To Buddha
- V. The Unpardonable Sin
- VI. Above the Battle's Front
- VII. Epilogue. Under the Blessing of Your Psyche Wings
- Biographical Note:
- Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931):
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