A Handy Guide for Beggars, Especially Those of the Poetic Fraternity
By Vachel Lindsay
Length3h 57m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "There are one hundred new poets in the villages of the land. This Handy Guide is dedicated first of all to them. It is also dedicated to the younger sons of the wide earth, to the runaway boys and girls getting further from home every hour, to the prodigals who are still wasting their substance in riotous living, be they gamblers or blasphemers or plain drunks; to those heretics of whatever school to whom life is a rebellion with banners; to those who are willing to accept counsel if it be mad counsel. This book is also dedicated to those budding philosophers who realize that every creature is a beggar in the presence of the beneficent sun, to those righteous ones who know that all righteousness is as filthy rags. Moreover, as an act of contrition, reënlistment and fellowship this book is dedicated to all the children of Don Quixote who see giants where most folks see windmills: those Galahads[viii] dear to Christ and those virgin sisters of Joan of Arc who serve the lepers on their knees and march in shabby armor against the proud, who look into the lightning with the eyes of the mountain cat. They do more soldierly things every day than this book records, yet they are mine own people, my nobler kin to whom I have been recreant, and so I finally dedicate this book to them."
Audiobook details
GenreOther, General Fiction
Length3 hrs 57 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 10, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1DEDICATION AND PREFACE OF A HANDY GUIDE FOR BEGGARS
2FOLLOW THE THISTLEDOWN
3I VAGRANT ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH
4COLUMBUS
5THE MAN UNDER THE YOKE
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6THE MAN WITH THE APPLE-GREEN EYES
7THE WOULD-BE MERMAN
8MACON
9THE FALLS OF TALLULAH (North Georgia)
10THE GNOME
11THE TRAMP’S REFUSAL On Being Asked by a Beautiful Gipsy to Join her Group of Strolling Players.
12THE HOUSE OF THE LOOM A Story of Seven Aristocrats and a Soap-Kettle.
13PHIDIAS
14MAN, IN THE CITY OF COLLARS A Not Very Tragic Relapse into the Toils of the World, and of Finance.
15CONFUCIUS
16THE OLD LADY AT THE TOP OF THE HILL
17WITH A ROSE, TO BRUNHILDE
18LADY IRON-HEELS[3]
19II A MENDICANT PILGRIMAGE IN THE EAST
20IN LOST JERUSALEM
21A TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS
22THE TOWN OF AMERICAN VISIONS (Springfield, Illinois)
23ON BEING ENTERTAINED ONE EVENING BY COLLEGE BOYS
24THAT WHICH MEN HAIL AS KING
25NEAR SHICKSHINNY
26WHAT THE SEXTON SAID
27DEATH, THE DEVIL, AND HUMAN KINDNESS The Shred of an Allegory
28LIFE TRANSCENDENT This being the name of praise given to a fair lady.
29IN THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH
30THE OLD GENTLEMAN WITH THE LANTERN (AND THE PEOPLE OF HIS HOUSEHOLD)
31THAT MEN MIGHT SEE AGAIN THE ANGEL-THRONG
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