 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
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1921 - 462 pages
...more . . . than to live in a name. THE CONGO 1 (A Study of the Negro Race) I. THEIR BASIC SAVAGERY Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house...with feet unstable, Sagged and reeled and pounded on the'4 deet> roiling , bass. table, Pounded on the table, Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1922 - 424 pages
...abiding not Where he pretends to be! 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 ^asdsccp ro"'B£ table, 1 Reprinted by permission of the publishers, The Macmillan Company, from The... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - Literary Criticism - 1923 - 462 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,... | |
 | William George Hoffman - Oratory - 1923 - 312 pages
...the margin give interesting directions for reading it. Only the first few lines may be quoted here.1 Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house...unstable, Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table, A deep rolling bass. Pounded on the table, Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom, Hard as... | |
 | Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson - American poetry - 1923 - 706 pages
...far more . . . than to live in a name. THE CONGO A Study of the Negro Race I — THEIR BASIC SAVAGERY 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 - Literary Criticism - 1923 - 466 pages
...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 and the handle of a broom, Boomlay,... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1925 - 666 pages
...more . . . than to live in a name. THE CONGO1 (A Study of- the Negro Race) I. THEIR BASIC SAVAGERY Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house...unstable, Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table, ^asdseep rollin» Pounded on the table, Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom, Hard as they... | |
 | Clement Wood - Poets, American - 1925 - 430 pages
...attention by a literary friend, which came to a new native birth in that vigorous baritone solo, 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,... | |
 | Robert Graves - English poetry - 1925 - 64 pages
...Congo the sense of hollow-sounding rhythmic percussion is given as nowhere else in English poetry : " 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,... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - American poetry - 1925 - 448 pages
...me. . . . Ob, to live and battle thus forever ! s NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY (1879— ) From "The Congo" Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house...unstable, Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table, [A deep Pounded on the table, rolling bass.] Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom. Hard... | |
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