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General William Booth Enters into Heaven and Other Poems

Vachel Lindsay · 1913

Texte original en anglais.

Chicago vient de se donner une revue de poésie. Ces vers-ci sont écrits pour être dits et chantés devant un public, sur l'air d'un cantique.

Poésie · 59 parties · environ 12 000 mots · environ 50 min de lecture

Sommaire

1. Ouverture1 min
2. General William Booth Enters into Heaven2 min
3. The Drunkards in the Street1 min
4. The City That Will Not Repent1 min
5. The Trap2 min
6. Where is David, the Next King of Israel?1 min
7. On Reading Omar Khayyam1 min
8. The Beggar's Valentine1 min
9. Honor Among Scamps1 min
10. The Gamblers1 min
11. On the Road to Nowhere1 min
12. Upon Returning to the Country Road1 min
13. The Angel and the Clown1 min
14. Springfield Magical1 min
15. Incense1 min
16. The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotos1 min
17. King Arthur's Men Have Come Again1 min
18. Foreign Missions in Battle Array1 min
19. Star of My Heart1 min
20. Look You, I'll Go Pray1 min
21. At Mass1 min
22. Heart of God1 min
23. The Empty Boats1 min
24. With a Bouquet of Twelve Roses1 min
25. St. Francis of Assisi1 min
26. Buddha1 min
27. A Prayer to All the Dead Among Mine Own People1 min
28. To Reformers in Despair1 min
29. Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket1 min
30. To the United States Senate2 min
31. The Knight in Disguise1 min
32. The Wizard in the Street2 min
33. The Eagle that is Forgotten1 min
34. Shakespeare1 min
35. Michelangelo1 min
36. Titian1 min
37. Lincoln1 min
38. The Cornfields1 min
39. Sweet Briars of the Stairways1 min

Fantasies and Whims:—

1. The Fairy Bridal Hymn1 min
2. The Potato's Dance1 min
3. How a Little Girl Sang1 min
4. Ghosts in Love1 min
5. The Queen of Bubbles1 min
6. The Tree of Laughing Bells, or The Wings of the Morning4 min
7. Sweethearts of the Year1 min
8. The Sorceress!1 min
9. Caught in a Net1 min
10. Eden in Winter2 min
11. Genesis1 min
12. Queen Mab in the Village2 min
13. The Dandelion1 min
14. The Light o' the Moon3 min
15. A Net to Snare the Moonlight1 min
16. Beyond the Moon1 min
17. The Song of the Garden-Toad1 min

A Gospel of Beauty:—

1. The Proud Farmer1 min
2. The Illinois Village1 min
3. On the Building of Springfield2 min

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