It is his main object to give his already established friends
a deeper sense of the musical intention of his pieces.
The book contains the much discussed "War Poem", "Abraham Lincoln Walks
at Midnight"; it contains among its familiar pieces: "The Santa Fe Trail",
"The Firemen's Ball", "The Dirge for a Righteous Kitten",
"The Griffin's Egg", "The Spice Tree", "Blanche Sweet", "Mary Pickford",
"The Soul of the City", etc.
Mr. Lindsay received the Levinson Prize for the best poem contributed
to `Poetry', a magazine of verse, (Chicago) for 1915.
"We do not know a young man of any more promise than Mr. Vachel Lindsay
for the task which he seems to have set himself." -- `The Dial'.
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven and Other Poems
Price, $1.25; leather, $1.60
This book contains among other verses: "On Reading Omar Khayyam
during an Anti-Saloon Campaign in Illinois"; "The Wizard Wind";
"The Eagle Forgotten", a Memorial to John P. Altgeld;
"The Knight in Disguise", a Memorial to O. Henry; "The Rose and the Lotus";
"Michaelangelo"; "Titian"; "What the Hyena Said"; "What Grandpa Mouse Said";
"A Net to Snare the Moonlight"; "Springfield Magical"; "The Proud Farmer";
"The Illinois Village"; "The Building of Springfield".
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