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The Congo, and Other Poems

By Vachel Lindsay

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More than 75 works, including a number of Lindsay's most popular performance pieces, "The Congo" and "The Santa Fe Trail" among them, reprinted with his own directions on how to recite them.

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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
Contents
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