Vachel

American  

[vey-chuhl] / ˈveɪ tʃəl /

noun

1. a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “little cow.”

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Example Sentences

Poet Vachel Lindsay reads with one of his relatives.Credit:

From Nature

In 1914, at the beginning of the first world war, the poet Vachel Lindsay, in Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, portrayed a ghostly Lincoln deploring the conflagration.

From The Guardian

My father, a true son of Sangamon County, would despair to know his own boy, with whom he strolled the grounds of Lincoln’s tomb trading lines from Vachel Lindsay, would make such a sloppy error.

From Fox News

Hiram College is home to the Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature, which is named for two poets, Vachel Lindsay and Hart Crane.

From The New Yorker

He slipped his poems next to the plate of the poet Vachel Lindsay who read them and was immediately impressed.

From New York Times