 With a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom, Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM. Then I had religion, then I had a vision, I could not turn from their revel in derision. Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the forest with...  The Dial - Page 2501914Full view - About this book
 | Vachel Lindsay - Congo River - 1914 - 192 pages
...THROUGH More deliberate. THE BLACK, ^"""f" chanted. 8 CUTTING THROUGH THE FOREST WITH A GOLDEN TRACK. Then along that riverbank A thousand miles Tattooed...blood-lust song And a thigh-bone beating on a tin-pan gong. A rapidly And "BLOOD" screamed the whistles and Pfin9climal of speed and the fifes of the warriors,... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - Electronic journals - 1920 - 762 pages
...Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the jungle vtith a golden trade. There along the riverbank A thousand miles Tattooed cannibals danced...screamed the skull-faced, lean witch-doctors; "Whirl ye deadly voo-doo rattle, Harry the uplands, Steal all the cattle, Rattle-rattle, rattle-rattle, Bing!... | |
 | Vachel Lindsay - 1915 - 196 pages
...THROUGH More deliberate. THE BLACK, */*""* chanted. 3 CUTTING THROUGH THE FOREST WITH A GOLDEN TRACK. Then along that riverbank A thousand miles Tattooed...cannibals danced in files; ; Then I heard the boom of the blogd-lus^ song And a thigh-bone beating on a tin-pan gong. A rapidly And "BLOOD" screamed the whistles... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English poetry - 1918 - 372 pages
...CREEPING THROUGH THE BLACK, CUTTING THROUGH THE FOREST WITH A GOLDEN TRACK. Then along that river bank A thousand miles Tattooed cannibals danced in files;...blood-lust song And a thigh-bone beating on a tin-pan gong. . . . A negro fairyland swung into view, A minstrel river Where dreams come true. The ebony palace... | |
 | Literature - 1918 - 738 pages
...WITH A GOLDEN TRACK. Then along that river bank A thousand miles Tattooed cannibals danced in flies; Then I heard the boom of the blood-lust song And a thigh-bone beating on a tin-pan gong. . . . A negro fairyland swung into view, A minstrel river Where dreams come true. The ebony palace... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English poetry - 1918 - 372 pages
...WITH A GOLDEN TRACK. Then along that river bank A thousand miles Tattooed cannibals danced in flies; Then I heard the boom of the blood-lust song And a thigh-bone beating on a tin-pan gong. . . . A negro fairyland swung into view, A minstrel river Where dreams come true. The ebony palace... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1919 - 400 pages
...derision. THEN I SAW THE CONGO, CREEPING THROUGH THE BLACKCutting through the Jungle with a golden track. Then along that riverbank A thousand miles Tattooed...And " BLOOD " screamed the whistles and the fifes <"•<* rack*. of the warriors ; " BLOOD " screamed the skull-faced, lean witchdoctors. " Whirl ye... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1919 - 204 pages
...deliberate. THROUGH THE BLACK, Solemnly CUTTING THROUGH THE JUNGLE WITH ' chanted. A GOLDEN TRACK. Then along that riverbank A thousand miles Tattooed...blood-lust song And a thigh-bone beating on a tin-pan A rapidly And " BLOOD " screamed the whistles racket. piling climax K s- of speed and and the fifes... | |
 | Reinard Willem Zandvoort - English language - 1921 - 216 pages
...creeping through the black, Cutting through the forest with a golden track. Then along that river bank A thousand miles Tattooed cannibals danced in files...blood-lust song And a thigh-bone beating on a tin-pan gong . . . This is by the American Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, than whom there is no more Dionysiac poet living.... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1919 - 200 pages
...CREEPING More deliberate. THROUGH THE BLACK, Solemnly CUTTING THROUGH THE JUNGLE WITH A GOLDEN TRACK. Then along that riverbank A thousand miles Tattooed...in files; Then I heard the boom of the blood-lust chanted. song And a thigh-bone beating on a tin-pan A rapidly And " BLOOD " screamed the whistles racket.... | |
| |
