The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems
1917
Vachel Lindsay's third book of verse, published in 1917 and dedicated to Sara Teasdale. The title poem, a laundryman's opium reverie that won the Levinson Prize, opens a collection that runs through war poems addressed to Jane Addams and Kerensky, portraits of Mae Marsh and Edwin Booth, prairie pieces, and the three-part Booker Washington Trilogy. Lindsay's essay on the poem games explains how he meant the verse to be chanted aloud.
- The Chinese Nightingale
- Where Is the Real Non-resistant?
- Here's to the Mice!
- When Bryan Speaks
- To Jane Addams at the Hague
- The Tale of the Tiger Tree
- The Merciful Hand
- Our Mother Pocahontas
- Concerning Emperors
- Niagara
- Mark Twain and Joan of Arc
- The Bankrupt Peace Maker
- "This, My Song, Is Made for Kerensky"
- Our Guardian Angels and Their Children
- Epitaphs for Two Players
- Mae Marsh, Motion Picture Actress
- Two Old Crows
- The Drunkard's Funeral
- The Raft
- The Ghosts of the Buffaloes
- The Broncho that Would Not Be Broken
- The Prairie Battlements
- The Flower of Mending
- Alone in the Wind, on the Prairie
- To Lady Jane
- How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven
- The Poem Games
- The King of Yellow Butterflies
- The Potatoes' Dance
- The Booker Washington Trilogy
- How Samson Bore Away the Gates of Gaza
- By the Same Author