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The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems
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By Vachel Lindsay 31 Jan, 2020
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"When all the world was drinking blood   From the skulls of men and bulls   And all the world had swords and clubs of stone,   We drank our tea in China beneath the sacred spice-trees,   And heard the curled waves of the harbor moan.   ... Read more
"When all the world was drinking blood   From the skulls of men and bulls   And all the world had swords and clubs of stone,   We drank our tea in China beneath the sacred spice-trees,   And heard the curled waves of the harbor moan.   And this gray bird, in Love's first spring,   With a bright-bronze breast and a bronze-brown wing,   Captured the world with his carolling. Less
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  • 2009-04-10
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  • 978-1727638882
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Vachel Lindsay
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Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (Nov 10, 1879 – Dec 5, 1931) was an American poet. He is considered a founder of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted....
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