A Handy Guide for Beggars: Especially Those of the Poetic Fraternity / Being Sundry Explorations, Made While Afoot and Penniless in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. These Adventures Convey and Illustrate the Rules of Beggary for Poets and Some Others.

by Vachel Lindsay

But now the green of the corn is going,

And winter comes and a springtime sowing

Of other grain, on the plains we knew.

So I walk on air, where the clouds are blowing,

And kiss her hand, where the gods are sowing

Stars for corn, in the star-fields new.

IN THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH

Hunted by friends who think that life is play,

Shaken by holy loves, more feared than foes,

By beauty’s amber cup, that overflows,