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 | Vachel Lindsay - 1914 - 192 ˹éÒ
...Little Review, and the American Magazine. FIRST SECTION Poems intended to be read aloud, or chanted. / THE CONGO A STUDY OF THE NEGRO RACE I. THEIR BASIC...feet unstable, Sagged and reeled and pounded on the A deep rotting . , , bass. table, Pounded on the table, Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom,... | |
 | Vachel Lindsay - 1914 - 196 ˹éÒ
...FIRST SECTION Poems intended to be read aloud, or chanted. THE CONGO A STUDY OF THE NEGRO RACE I. THEIB BASIC SAVAGERY Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room,...feet unstable, Sagged and reeled and pounded on the A deep rolling table, *""• Pounded on the table, Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom,... | |
 | 1914 - 540 ˹éÒ
...it could manage decently to go home. But Mr. Lindsay's first line caught its flagging attention : " Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house...unstable, 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,... | |
 | Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson - 1917 - 452 ˹éÒ
...is far more than to live in a name; To live in mankind, far, far more . . . than to live in a name. THE CONGO A Study of the Negro Race I — THEIR BASIC...Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table, A deeP roUPounded on the table, '"* Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom, Hard as they were able,... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1918 - 372 ˹éÒ
...vision of Chantecler, so Vachel Lindsay looked at some drunken niggers and saw the vision of the Congo. Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house...unstable, 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,... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1918 - 368 ˹éÒ
...of Chantecler, so Vachel Lindsay looked at some drunken niggers and saw the vision of the Congo. Pat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house kings,...unstable, 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,... | |
 | Howard Willard Cook - 1918 - 292 ˹éÒ
...Lindsay's "Song of the Congo" is among the best known of his works : Fat black bucks in a wine barrel room, Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable, 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,... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - 1919 - 204 ˹éÒ
...living in Northampton, Mass., where she is Assistant Professor of English at Smith College.] THE CONGO 1 (A Study of the Negro Race) I. THEIR BASIC SAVAGERY...feet unstable, Sagged and reeled and pounded on the A deep rolling table, bass Pounded on the table, Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom, Hard... | |
 | Reinard Willem Zandvoort - 1921 - 216 ˹éÒ
...percussion compare Lucretius: tympana tenta tonant palmis et cymbalo circum (De Rer. Nat. II 618.) Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house...unstable, 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,... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - 1919 - 400 ˹éÒ
...verses except in bulk, the first section reveals the surprising method as well as the aboriginal music: Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house...unstable, 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,... | |
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