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| 3731. | Mae Marsh, Motion Picture Actress by Vachel Lindsay | | I
The arts are old, old as the stones
From which man carved the sphinx austere.
Deep are the days the old arts bring:
Ten thousand years of yest... |
| 3732. | The Sun Says His Prayers by Vachel Lindsay | | "The sun says his prayers," said the fairy,
Or else he would wither and die.
"The sun says his prayers," said the fairy,
"For strength to climb up ... |
| 3733. | Epitaphs For Two Players by Vachel Lindsay | | I. EDWIN BOOTH
An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a barnstormer in California. There were fe... |
| 3734. | Alone in the Wind, on the Prairie by Vachel Lindsay | | I know a seraph who has golden eyes,
And hair of gold, and body like the snow.
Here in the wind I dream her unbound hair
Is blowing round me, that ... |
| 3735. | The Trap by Vachel Lindsay | | She was taught desire in the street,
Not at the angels' feet.
By the good no word was said
Of the worth of the bridal bed.
The secret was lear... |
| 3736. | The Spice-Tree by Vachel Lindsay | | This is the song
The spice-tree sings:
"Hunger and fire,
Hunger and fire,
Sky-born Beauty—
Spice of desire,"
Under the spice-tree
Watch and w... |
| 3737. | To Mary Pickford by Vachel Lindsay | | MOVING-PICTURE ACTRESS
(On hearing she was leaving the moving-pictures for the stage.)
Mary Pickford, doll divine,
Year by year, and every da... |
| 3739. | The Alchemist's Petition by Vachel Lindsay | | Thou wilt not sentence to eternal life
My soul that prays that it may sleep and sleep
Like a white statue dropped into the deep,
Covered with sand,... |
| 3740. | An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic by Vachel Lindsay | | Sometimes I dip my pen and find the bottle full of fire,
The salamanders flying forth I cannot but admire.
It's Etna, or Vesuvius, if those big thi... |
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