Project Gutenberg 1996-07-01 Public domain in the USA. 298 Lindsay, Vachel 1879 1931 Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel The Chinese Nightingale, and Other Poems Produced by A. Light "The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems" by Vachel Lindsay is a collection of poems written during the early 20th century. This work captures themes of beauty, nostalgia, and cultural exploration through a lens both personal and imaginative, reflecting on the richness of Chinese folklore alongside contemporary societal issues. The opening of the collection introduces "The Chinese Nightingale," a poem that begins with a dialogue between two characters, one named Chang, who draws upon his memories of a vibrant past filled with love and beauty, contrasted against the mundane life of a laundryman in San Francisco. The poem evokes a sense of longing for a lost world, filled with mythical imagery and a nightingale that symbolizes beauty and love, as it reminisces about the vibrant culture of old China. Through this rich tapestry of words, Lindsay weaves a narrative that speaks to the universality of love and the impact of time on human experience, providing a glimpse into the emotional depth present in the rest of the collection. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 80.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. en World War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry American poetry Fairy tales -- Poetry PS Text Category: Poetry 159767 2025-08-01T06:02:10.299243 text/html 159588 159534 2025-01-01T06:12:22.315031 2023-10-01T05:45:45.947103 text/html text/html 128200 2025-08-01T06:02:17.097189 application/epub+zip 128223 2025-08-01T06:02:13.319206 application/epub+zip 117044 2025-08-01T06:02:12.004239 application/epub+zip 289903 2025-08-01T06:02:19.288189 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 273841 2025-08-01T06:02:16.315209 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 239896 2022-09-01T06:34:31.169592 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 121938 2025-08-01T06:02:10.012226 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 121766 2021-01-01T09:43:34 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 44619 2021-01-01T09:43:34 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 121758 2021-01-01T09:43:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 44596 2021-01-01T09:43:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19551 2025-08-01T06:02:19.417166 application/rdf+xml 16177 2025-08-01T06:02:12.537202 image/jpeg 3810 2025-08-01T06:02:12.288200 image/jpeg 127071 2025-08-01T06:02:10.311242 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia