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A Short Biography of Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

Author Name:

Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

Born As:

Other Names:

Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

Born:

10 Nov 1879

Died:

05 Dec 1931




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Selected Works:

Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie
A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign
A Sense of Humor
Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan
The Dandelion
Drying Their Wings
Euclid
Factory Windows are Always Broken
The Flower-Fed Buffaloes
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven-the American Classical Composer Charles Ives would write music to this poem (with a couple of additional text alterations) shortly after its publication
In Praise of Johnny Appleseed
The Kallyope Yell – see calliope for references
The Leaden-Eyed
Love and Law
The North Star Whispers to the Blacksmith's Son
On the Garden Wall
The Prairie Battlements
The Golden Book of Springfield
Prologue to Rhymes to be Traded for Bread 
The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race
The Eagle That is Forgotten
The Firemen's Ball
The Rose of Midnight
This Section is a Christmas Tree
To Gloriana
What Semiramis Said
What the Ghost of the Gambler Said
Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket
Written for a Musician.                          
Mother 
Father Vachel Thomas Lindsay                          
                          
Considered the father of modern singing poetry, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted.

In 1915, Lindsay gave a poetry reading to President Woodrow Wilson and the entire Cabinet.