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Title: Chinese Nightingale

Author: Vachel Lindsay

Posting Date: September 13, 2008 [EBook #592]
Release Date: July, 1996

Language: English

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Produced by A. Light.

The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems,

by

Vachel Lindsay.

[Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Illinois Poet. 1879-1931.]

[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases capitalized.
Italicized stanzas are indented 5 spaces. Some errors have been
corrected. Lines longer than 78 characters are broken according
to metre, and the continuation is indented two spaces.]

The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems

By

Vachel Lindsay

Author of "The Congo", "General William Booth Enters Into Heaven",
"Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty", etc.

This Book is Dedicated to Sara Teasdale, Poet

Harriet Monroe awarded the Levinson Prize to "The Chinese Nightingale",
as the best contribution to "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse",
for the year 1915.

Table of Contents

First Section

The Chinese Nightingale

Second Section

America Watching the War, August, 1914, to April, 1917

Where Is the Real Non-resistant?
Here's to the Mice!
When Bryan Speaks
To Jane Addams at the Hague
I. Speak Now for Peace
II. Tolstoi Is Plowing Yet
The Tale of the Tiger Tree
The Merciful Hand

Third Section

America at War with Germany, Beginning April, 1917

Our Mother Pocahontas
Concerning Emperors
Niagara
Mark Twain and Joan of Arc
The Bankrupt Peace Maker
"This, My Song, is made for Kerensky"

Fourth Section

Tragedies, Comedies, and Dreams

Our Guardian Angels and Their Children
Epitaphs for Two Players
I. Edwin Booth
II. John Bunny, Motion Picture Comedian
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