On the Garden-wall
III. Written for a Musician
IV. The Moon is a Painter
V. The Encyclopaedia
VI. What the Miner in the Desert Said
VII. What the Coal-heaver Said
VIII. What the Moon Saw
IX. What Semiramis Said
X. What the Ghost of the Gambler Said
XI. The Spice-tree
XII. The Scissors-grinder
XIII. My Lady in her White Silk Shawl
XIV. Aladdin and the Jinn
XV. The Strength of the Lonely
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
First Section
Poems intended to be read aloud, or chanted.
The Congo
A Study of the Negro Race
I. Their Basic Savagery
Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room,
Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable,
# A deep rolling bass. #
Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table,
Pounded on the table,
Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom,
Hard as they were able,
Boom, boom, BOOM,
With a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom,
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM.
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