Cinderella Poetry

Parvenu
by Vachel Lindsay
(1879–1931)

Where does Cinderella sleep?
By Heaven's jungle-river,
A secret place her burning Prince
Decks, while his heart-strings quiver.

Homesick for our cinder world,
Her low-born shoulders shiver;
She longs for sleep in cinders curled—
We, for the jungle-river.

from Collected Poems of Vachel Lindsay (1925)