Vachel Lindsay

Poems (5)

• Aladdin and the Jinn

  “bring me soft song,” said Aladdin; / “This tailor-shop sings not at all. …

• General William Booth Enters into Heaven

  Booth led boldly with his big bass drum. / Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? …

• The Chinese Nightingale

  “how, how,” he said. “Friend Chang,” I said, / “San Francisco sleeps as the dead— …

• The Congo

  I—their basic SAVAGERY / FAT black bucks in a wine-barrel room, …

• The Eagle that is Forgotten

  Sleep softly … eagle forgotten … under the stone. / Time has its way with you there, and the clay has its own. …