Arts & Sciences
The Encyclopaedia
From The Congo and Other Poems (1914)
Arts & Sciences
"If I could set the moon upon
This table," said my friend,
"Among the standard poets
And brochures without end,
And noble prints of old Japan,
How empty they would seem,
By that encyclopaedia
Of whim and glittering dream."
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Lindsay, Vachel. “The Encyclopaedia.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lindsay/119/.
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Lindsay, Vachel. “The Encyclopaedia.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lindsay/119/.
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