Potential Titles: Vachel Lindsay

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And stilled the panther's call - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, I: My Fathers Came from Kentucky"

And feud and Hell were theirs - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, I: My Fathers Came from Kentucky"

I have begun to count my dead - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, II: Written in a Year When Many of My People Died"

Fountain of whispering and mystery - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"

Where the precious airs are terraces and roadways - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"

Pits so deep a torch turns to a star - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"

The fiery roots of forests brave and far - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"

The seventeen year locust charged by - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"

The dream-side of a pennyroyal river - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"

Let a thousand prophets have their due - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"

There's machinery in the butterfly - Vachel Lindsay "Another Word on the Scientific Aspiration"

There's a mainspring to the bee - Vachel Lindsay "Another Word on the Scientific Aspiration"

There's hydraulics to a daisy - Vachel Lindsay "Another Word on the Scientific Aspiration"

Made ten soldiers out of snow - Vachel Lindsay "The Battle-Ax of the Sun"

On soft-winged sails of meditation - Vachel Lindsay "The Boat with the Kite String and the Celestial Eyes"

The dead hours in their graves - Vachel Lindsay "The Boat with the Kite String and the Celestial Eyes"

Bartlett pears of romance - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

Scourged the elephant plutocrats - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

A tribe of wonders coming - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

At midnight in the sod huts of lost hope - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

Speaking like a siege gun - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

Tornadoes piled across the sky - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

And joined the wild parade - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

Time-winds out of Chaos - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

The demons in the bricks, the demons in the grass - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

Down like a wind-smashed fence - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

With dollar signs upon their coats - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

Gone to join the shadows - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

With mighty Cromwell and tall King Saul - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

To join the ironies with Old John Brown - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

A hawk that loves my shoulder - Vachel Lindsay "The Celestial Circus"

Your feet will be white lightning - Vachel Lindsay "The Celestial Circus"

And wrestle on the moon - Vachel Lindsay "The Celestial Circus"

The first of our million dancing years - Vachel Lindsay "The Celestial Circus"

Gallop through the whirling mist - Vachel Lindsay "The Comet of Prophecy"

And wisdom's mountain scale - Vachel Lindsay "The Comet of Prophecy"

My wizard cloak beneath that alien sky - Vachel Lindsay "The Comet of Prophecy"

Chaos sleet and chaos rain - Vachel Lindsay "The Comet of Prophecy"

My lady of the tea-rose - Vachel Lindsay "Dancing for a Prize"

Queen of the fleets of No-Man's-Land - Vachel Lindsay "Dancing for a Prize"

Who drove the coiling dragons like doves before her - Vachel Lindsay "Dancing for a Prize"

Climbing bitterly the stranger's stairs - Vachel Lindsay "Dante"

Like Alice through the looking-glass - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"

The black stones took on flame - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"

The shadows shone with eyes - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"

In a Hell's debauch of dyes - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"

In a court of witch bazars [sic] - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"

A pack of death-hounds guarding me - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"

That pen will drip with moonlight and with fire - Vachel Lindsay "The Dream of All the Springfield Writers"

In channelled glory leap and shine - Vachel Lindsay "The Dream of All the Springfield Writers"

The cloud wore sunshine - Vachel Lindsay "The Fairy Circus"

Two sad shadows over the old nations - Vachel Lindsay "The Fever Called War"

The strain that the wild band plays - Vachel Lindsay "The Firemen's Ball"

With a red and royal intoxication - Vachel Lindsay "The Firemen's Ball"

The delicate flowers of delight - Vachel Lindsay "The Firemen's Ball"

Like midnight poppies - Vachel Lindsay "The Firemen's Ball"

With hearts like the stars - Vachel Lindsay "The Firemen's Ball"

The lions and roses and lilies of love - Vachel Lindsay "For All Who Ever Sent Lace Valentines"

They feed on the sacred raisins - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Where the great black agates loom - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

So high the crows are dizzy - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

The whales roar in perfect tune and time - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

A tale of Prester John - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Ten gold suns in California - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Harnessed with golden seaweeds - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Fight like scalded wildcats - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Then they repent like whirlwinds - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Spices like sharp sweet swords - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Honey in the hearts of gourds - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Swans that prophesy night and day - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

The burble of the bull-frog in the well - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Giant shells from the jasper sea - Vachel Lindsay "Harps in Heaven"

A thousand burnt up years behind - Vachel Lindsay "Harps in Heaven"

I hear the chimes of tomorrow - Vachel Lindsay "In Memory of My Friend Joyce Kilmer, Poet and Soldier"

The azure bells of eternal love - Vachel Lindsay "In Memory of My Friend Joyce Kilmer, Poet and Soldier"

Storm clouds turned to blue-bell flowers - Vachel Lindsay "In Memory of My Friend Joyce Kilmer, Poet and Soldier"

Giants afar still touch the sky - Vachel Lindsay "In Memory of My Friend Joyce Kilmer, Poet and Soldier"

Drunk on May-time revelations - Vachel Lindsay "In Praise of Johnny Appleseed"

The apple allied to the thorn - Vachel Lindsay "In Praise of Johnny Appleseed"

While the years howled by - Vachel Lindsay "In Praise of Johnny Appleseed"

With their butterfly nations - Vachel Lindsay "In Praise of Johnny Appleseed"

Heart of a hundred midnights - Vachel Lindsay "In Praise of Johnny Appleseed"

Found among the prophets - Vachel Lindsay "In Which Roosevelt Is Compared to Saul"

Bought refinement by the pound - Vachel Lindsay "John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston"

For a jamboree was gowned - Vachel Lindsay "John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston"

Each raw saloon was raising Cain - Vachel Lindsay "John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston"

Once more escaped its chain - Vachel Lindsay "John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston"

We joined the singing phoenix then - Vachel Lindsay "Kalamazoo"

All for one hidden butterfly - Vachel Lindsay "Kalamazoo"

With her crystal wings, and her honey heart - Vachel Lindsay "Kalamazoo"

One scorched phoenix that mourned in the dew - Vachel Lindsay "Kalamazoo"

Wonders spreading round you like flame - Vachel Lindsay "A Kind of Scorn"

Love haunting your very name - Vachel Lindsay "A Kind of Scorn"

The Grail above your head in splendor - Vachel Lindsay "A Kind of Scorn"

The storm of scorn I ride - Vachel Lindsay "A Kind of Scorn"

Bitter dreams of enigma and night - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

When a million years were done - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

The wounds that come with wanderings - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Chose the solemn paths of Hell - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Of a memory in demon-haunted men - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Strung with threads of purple fire - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

The sweetest song since the demons fell - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Nor devils nor dragons may ever forget - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

The death-dews of Chaos - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Called up the dragons by name - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

The laughter of Night in his lair - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

The fear of ten thousand tomorrows - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Building a throne of sand - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

The fire of the star-souled Lucifer - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

For a moment repenting - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Where the Gulfs of Silence end - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Our spiritual solar-kings - Vachel Lindsay "A Meditation on the Sun"

Carry yesteryears within our wallets - Vachel Lindsay "A Meditation on the Sun"

Scorns and triumphs woven in our cloaks - Vachel Lindsay "A Meditation on the Sun"

To whom all psalms are due - Vachel Lindsay "A Meditation on the Sun"

A kiss from far off Eden - Vachel Lindsay "My Lady Is Compared to a Young Tree"

A flash of Judgment's trumpet - Vachel Lindsay "My Lady Is Compared to a Young Tree"

That no storm can tame - Vachel Lindsay "The Mystic Rooster of the Montana Sunrise"

Her secret forest's floor and lawn - Vachel Lindsay "A Rhyme for All Zionists: The Eyes of Queen Esther, and How they Conquered King Ahasuerus"

As mead to reapers in the wheat - Vachel Lindsay "A Rhyme for All Zionists: The Eyes of Queen Esther, and How they Conquered King Ahasuerus"

Yet Judith, till her war was won - Vachel Lindsay "A Rhyme for All Zionists: The Eyes of Queen Esther, and How they Conquered King Ahasuerus"

All of the future tyrants fell - Vachel Lindsay "A Rhyme for All Zionists: The Eyes of Queen Esther, and How they Conquered King Ahasuerus"

Ruled with tomorrow's rising sun - Vachel Lindsay "A Rhyme for All Zionists: The Eyes of Queen Esther, and How they Conquered King Ahasuerus"

And in the logic of the skies - Vachel Lindsay "A Rhyme for All Zionists: The Eyes of Queen Esther, and How they Conquered King Ahasuerus"

The dry hot wind called Science - Vachel Lindsay "The Scientific Aspiration"

Give us Darwin's eyes - Vachel Lindsay "The Scientific Aspiration"

With your patchwork flag of brotherhood - Vachel Lindsay "Sew the Flags Together"

One quick breath of peach-bloom fantasy - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

As the Indus turns him back - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Where poppies bloom for miles - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

A giant hound that never sleeps - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

A crocodile that sits and weeps - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Fire-winged cats that light the nights - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Glorify the land of rust - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Writhing roots on trees of dream - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Beggars and clowns rebel in might - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Lifts a key of crimson stone - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Throws forty keys at Arthur's feet - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

And every rumor known to time - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Ten thousand years have thundered on - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Immortal brooks and magic birds - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

A voice of night-wind alchemy - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

The drumbeat of a ghost - Vachel Lindsay "The Song of the Sturdy Snails"

And all the snails were kings - Vachel Lindsay "The Song of the Sturdy Snails"

That keep vigils on the windows of beggars - Vachel Lindsay "The Song of the Sturdy Snails"

Drunk on honey-dew and violet's breath - Vachel Lindsay "The Tiger on Parade"

Knocking at the brazen bars of Death - Vachel Lindsay "The Tiger on Parade"

High above that tiger on parade - Vachel Lindsay "The Tiger on Parade"

Uriel and Michael were your sons - Vachel Lindsay "To Eve, Man's Dream of Wifehood as Described by Milton"

Piercing through his midnight sleep - Vachel Lindsay "To Eve, Man's Dream of Wifehood as Described by Milton"

Making our hearts their prey - Vachel Lindsay "We Start West for the Waterfalls"

Beneath Time's roaring cannon - Vachel Lindsay "When the Mississippi Flowed in Indiana"

The roof of Blue-Beard's palace - Vachel Lindsay "When the Mississippi Flowed in Indiana"

While the soul's deep Mississippi sweeps on - Vachel Lindsay "When the Mississippi Flowed in Indiana"

Cold and mighty as his name - Vachel Lindsay "Yankee Doodle"

Unsubdued by burning dawn - Vachel Lindsay "Yankee Doodle"

War-god banners lead us - Vachel Lindsay "Yankee Doodle"

The flag the angels carry - Vachel Lindsay "Yankee Doodle"

Marching still with bleeding feet - Vachel Lindsay "Yankee Doodle"


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