Poems (Marianne Moore)

by Marianne Moore

For works with similar titles, see 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

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