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Title: Poems
Author: Marianne Moore
Release date: August 3, 2020 [eBook #62833]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024
Language: English
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS ***
POEMS
BY MARIANNE MOORE
LONDON
THE EGOIST PRESS
2 Robert Street, Adelphi, W.C.
1921
Several of these poems appeared in
The Egoist;
others in The Dial, Others
and Contact.
CONTENTS
| PEDANTIC LITERALIST | 5 |
| TO A STEAM ROLLER | 6 |
| DILIGENCE IS TO MAGIC AS PROGRESS IS TO FLIGHT | 6 |
| THOSE VARIOUS SCALPELS | 7 |
| FEED ME, ALSO, RIVER GOD, | 8 |
| TO WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS ON TAGORE | 8 |
| HE MADE THIS SCREEN | 9 |
| TALISMAN | 9 |
| BLACK EARTH | 10 |
| “HE WROTE THE HISTORY BOOK,” IT SAID | 12 |
| YOU ARE LIKE THE REALISTIC PRODUCT OF AN IDEALISTIC | |
| SEARCH FOR GOLD AT THE FOOT OF THE RAINBOW | 12 |
| REINFORCEMENTS | 13 |
| ROSES ONLY | 13 |
| IN THIS AGE OF HARD TRYING NONCHALANCE IS GOOD, AND | 14 |
| THE FISH | 14 |
| MY APISH COUSINS | 16 |
| WHEN I BUY PICTURES | 17 |
| PICKING AND CHOOSING | 18 |
| ENGLAND | 19 |
| DOCK RATS | 20 |
| RADICAL | 21 |
| POETRY | 22 |
| IN THE DAYS OF PRISMATIC COLOR | 23 |
| IS YOUR TOWN NINEVEH? | 24 |
POEMS
BY MARIANNE MOORE