 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, boom, BOOM, With a silk umbrella...  Looking at Life - Page 121by Floyd Dell - 1924 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literature - 1914 - 540 pages
...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,... | |
 | Vachel Lindsay - Congo River - 1914 - 192 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - Electronic journals - 1920 - 762 pages
...offer many examples as well. Here is a genuine bit of rag-time from Vachel Lindsay's "Congo": 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,... | |
 | Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson - 1917 - 452 pages
...Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable, 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, Boom, boom, BOOM, With a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom, Boomlay,... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English poetry - 1918 - 372 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1918 - 368 pages
...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 - American poetry - 1918 - 292 pages
...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 - American poetry - 1919 - 400 pages
...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,... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - English literature - 1921 - 742 pages
...atmosphere of negro festivity, of African savagery, and of tropical devil-haunted darkness. It begins : 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,... | |
 | Marguerite Wilkinson - American poetry - 1919 - 478 pages
...and of the emotion and picturing that one can hardly separate it from them for purposes of analysis. "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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