The golden whales of California, and other rhymes in the American language

by Vachel Lindsay

LIST OF THE BOOKS OF VACHEL LINDSAY

Prose:

A Handy Guide for Beggars

Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty

The Art of the Moving Picture

Verse:

General William Booth Enters into Heaven and Other Poems

The Congo and Other Poems

The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems

The Golden Whales of California and Other Rhymes in the American Language

It is suggested that those who are interested in a complete view of these works should take them in the above order. They are all published by The Macmillan Company.

THE GOLDEN WHALES OF CALIFORNIA

AND OTHER RHYMES IN THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE

BY
VACHEL LINDSAY

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1920

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1920,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1920.

THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED
TO
ISADORA BENNETT,
CITIZEN OF SPRINGFIELD,
because she helped me to write many of
the pieces, from the Golden Whales
of California to Alexander Campbell,
and because she danced
the Daniel Jazz.

For permission to reprint some of the verses in this volume the author is indebted to the courtesy of the editors and publishers of The Chicago Daily News, Poetry (Chicago), Contemporary Verse, The New Republic, The Forum, Books and the Book World of the New York Sun, Others, The Red Cross Magazine, Youth, The Independent, and William Stanley Braithwaite’s anthology entitled “Victory.”