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Introduction. By Harriet Monroe

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

By the Spring, at Sunset

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 (As it were)

How a Little Girl Danced

In Praise of Songs that Die

Factory Windows are always Broken

To Mary Pickford

Blanche Sweet

Sunshine

For a Very Little Girl, Not a Year Old. Catharine Frazee Wakefield.

An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic

When Gassy Thompson Struck it Rich

Rhymes for Gloriana

Fourth Section ~~ Twenty Poems in which the Moon is the Principal Figure of Speech

Once More—To Gloriana

First Section: Moon Poems for the Children/ Fairy-tales for the Children

Second Section: The Moon is a Mirror

Fifth Section

War. September 1, 1914 Intended to be Read Aloud

I. Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight

II. A Curse for Kings

III. Who Knows?

IV. To Buddha

V. The Unpardonable Sin

VI. Above the Battle's Front

VII. Epilogue. Under the Blessing of Your Psyche Wings

Biographical Note

Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)