The Poems of Marianne Moore

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ISBN: 9780143039082 | 0143039083
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Copyright: 3/29/2005

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This complete collection of Moore’s poetry, lovingly edited by prize-winning poet Grace Schulman, for the first time gathers together allof Moore’s poems, including more than a hundred that were previously uncollected and unpublished. This long-awaited volume will reveal to Moore’s admirers the scope of her poetic voice and will introduce new generations of readers to her extraordinary achievement.

Introduction

xvii

Prelude, December 25, 1895

Dear St. Nicklus;

(4)

Early Poems, 1907-1913

Under a Patched Sail

(1)

To Come After a Sonnet

(1)

To My Cup-Bearer

(1)

The Sentimentalist

(1)

He Made This Screen

(1)

Ennui

(1)

A Red Flower

(1)

A Jelly-Fish

(1)

Progress

(1)

A Fish

(1)

My Lantern

(1)

Tunica Pallio Proprior

(1)

My Senses Do Not Deceive Me

(1)

Qui S'Excuse, S'Accuse

(1)

Elfride, Making Epigrams

(1)

A Talisman

(1)

Leaves of a Magazine

(1)

The Beast of Burden

(1)

Things Are What They Seem

(1)

This Is the Way Toads Talk:

(1)

To Pierrot Returning to His Orchid

(1)

To Pharaoh's Baker Plucking Up Courage to Ask the Interpretation of His Dream, When a Favorable Interpretation Had Been Accorded the Dream of Pharaoh's Butler

(1)

Piningly

(2)

Artificers and the Alchemist

(1)

To You-of the World, Not in the World:

(1)

Wisdom at Last

(1)

To a Stiff-winged Grasshopper

(1)

Emeralds

(1)

Sun, Moon, and Stars:

(1)

Polyphonic Craftsman, Coated Like a Zebra, Fleeing Like the Wild Ass, Mourning Like a Dove,

(1)

All of It, as Recorded

(1)

"Am I a Brother to Dragons and a Companion to Owls?"

(1)

"And Shall Life Pass an Old Maid By?"

(1)

The Assassins

(1)

Axiomatic

(1)

Reprobate Silver

(1)

The Candle-Stick Maker

(1)

"Coral-and-Brown" Admiring Herself in the Mirror

(1)

"Crepe Hanger?" He

(1)

To a Cantankerous Poet Ignoring His Compeers-Thomas Hardy, Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, Henry James

(1)

The Fashion, Poor Lady, Behaving Like a Dungeon, Looking Like a Church

(1)

Flints, Not Flowers

(1)

The Grass That Perisheth

(1)

Guillemots

(1)

He Did Mend It. His Body Filled a Substantial Interstice

(1)

"I Like a Horse but I Have a Fellow Feeling for a Mule"

(1)

I Tell You No Lie

(1)

Ichabod

(1)

Inheritance

(2)

"It Makes No Difference to Balbus Whether He Drinks Wine or Water"

(1)

Kay Nielson in Cinderella

(1)

Kay Nielson's Little Green Patch in the Midst of the Forest

(1)

A Lady with Pearls, to a Blood Red Rook from Turkey, Who Has Depicted Her with Pathos in Surly Monotone

(1)

Light Through a Keyhole

(1)

Like Bertram Dobell, You Achieve Distinction by Disclaiming It

(1)

Majestic Haystack

(1)

Man's Feet Are a Sensational Device

(1)

Patriotic Sentiment and the Maker

(1)

As Has Been Said

(1)

Rencontre

(1)

Rodin's Penseur

(1)

Suaviter in Modo

(1)

To See It Is to Know That Mendelssohn Would Never Do:

(1)

To Worldly Wisemen Recommending the Town of Carnal Policy as a Substitute for the Celestial City

(1)

God Bless You, Sir

(1)

We All Know It

(1)

Why That Question:

(1)

You Are Very Pensive-Hammering Out in Darkness What Will Not Bear the Light of Day

(3)

Little Magazines, 1915-1919

Ezra Pound:

(1)

To a Man Working His Way Through the Crowd

(1)

To Military Progress

(1)

Pouters and Fantails

(3)

That Harp You Play So Well

(1)

To an Intra-Mural Rat

(1)

Counseil to a Bachelor

(1)

Appellate Jurisdiction

(1)

The Wizard in Words

(1)

To William Butler Yeats on Tagore

(1)

The North Wind to a Dutiful Beast Midway Between the Dial and the Foot of a Garden Clock

(1)

Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel

(1)

To a Strategist

(1)

Injudicious Gardening

(1)

To a Prize Bird

(1)

Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight

(1)

To a Steam Roller

(1)

To Statecraft Embalmed

(1)

To a Friend in the Making

(1)

Blake

(1)

George Moore

(1)

The Past Is the Present,

(1)

Masks

(1)

Diogenes

(1)

Sun

100

(1)

"He Wrote the History Book'

101

(1)

To a Chameleon

102

(1)

Is Your Town Nineveh?

103

(1)

You Are Fire Eaters

104

(1)

Pedantic Literalist

105

(1)

Critics and Connoisseurs

106

(2)

In This Age of Hard Trying, Nonchalance Is Good and

108

(1)

To Be Liked by You Would Be a Calamity

109

(2)

Feed Me, Also, River God no Apropos of Mice

111

(1)

"She Trimmed the Candles Like One Who Loves the Beautiful"

112

(1)

In "Designing a Cloak to Cloak His Designs," You Wrested from Oblivion a Coat of Immortality for Your Own Use

113

(1)

Holes Bored in a Workbag by the Scissors

114

(1)

The Just Man and

115

(1)

Those Various Scalpels

116

(1)

Like a Bulrush

117

(1)

To the Peacock of France

118

(1)

Sojourn in the Whale

119

(1)

Roses Only

120

(1)

The Monkeys

121

(1)

Melanchthon

122

(3)

An Ardent Platonist

125

(1)

Reinforcements

126

(1)

The Fish

127

(2)

Callot-Drecol-Cheruit-Jenny-Doucet-Aviotte-Lady

129

(2)

You Say You Said

131

(1)

Old Tiger

132

(2)

Radical

134

(1)

Poetry

135

(1)

In the Days of Prismatic Color

136

(1)

Dock Rats

137

(1)

Picking and Choosing

138

(3)

The Dial Years, 1920-1925

England

141

(2)

Lines on a Visit of Anne Carroll Moore to Hudson Park Branch

143

(1)

When I Buy Pictures

144

(1)

A Grave

145

(1)

New York

146

(1)

The Labors of Hercules

147

(1)

Snakes, Mongooses, Snake-Charmers, and the Like

148

(1)

People's Surroundings

149

(3)

Novices

152

(2)

Bowls

154

(1)

Marriage

155

(8)

Silence

163

(1)

Sea Unicorns and Land Unicorns

164

(3)

An Octopus

167

(6)

An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish

173

(1)

To a Snail

174

(1)

"The Bricks Are Fallen Down, We Will Build with Hewn Stones. The Sycamores Are Cut Down, We Will Change to Cedars"

175

(1)

"Nothing Will Cure the Sick Lion but to Eat an Ape"

176

(1)

Peter

177

(2)

The Monkey Puzzle

179

(1)

A Fool, a Foul Thing, a Distressful Lunatic

180

(3)

Lyrics and Sequences, 1926-1940

The Steeple-Jack

183

(2)

The Student

185

(2)

The Hero

187

(2)

No Swan So Fine

189

(1)

The Jerboa

190

(5)

To Peace

195

(1)

The Plumet Basilisk

196

(5)

Camellia Sabina

201

(3)

The Frigate Pelican

204

(2)

The Buffalo

206

(2)

Nine Nectarines

208

(2)

Pigeons

210

(4)

Virginia Britannia

214

(5)

Bird-Witted

219

(2)

Half Deity

221

(3)

Smooth Gnarled Crape Myrtle

224

(2)

The Pangolin

226

(3)

Walking-Sticks and Paper-Weights and Water Marks

229

(4)

See in the Midst of Fair Leaves

233

(4)

World War II and After, 1940-1956

Four Quartz Crystal Clocks

237

(2)

What Are Years

239

(1)

The Paper Nautilus

240

(2)

Rigorists

242

(1)

Light Is Speech

243

(2)

He "Digesteth Harde Yron"

245

(2)

Spenser's Ireland

247

(2)

The Wood-Weasel

249

(1)

Pale Morning Moon, Dark Blue Black Sea,

250

(1)

You, Your Horse

251

(1)

In Distrust of Merits

252

(3)

Nevertheless

255

(2)

Elephants

257

(3)

The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing

260

(2)

A Carriage from Sweden

262

(2)

"Keeping Their World Large"

264

(2)

His Shield

266

(1)

Propriety

267

(2)

Advent

269

(1)

A Face

270

(1)

Efforts of Affection

271

(1)

At Rest in the Blast

272

(1)

I Ike a Bulwark

273

(1)

Veracities and Verities Sometimes Are Interacting

274

(1)

By Disposition of Angels

275

(1)

Armor's Undermining Modesty

276

(2)

The Stuttering Quagmires Speak

278

(1)

The Icosasphere

279

(1)

Pretiolae

280

(1)

Quoting an Also Private Thought

281

(1)

We Call Them the Brave

282

(1)

Then the Ermine:

283

(2)

Apparition of Splendor

285

(1)

Tom Fool at Jamaica

286

(2)

The Web One Weaves of Italy

288

(1)

Rosemary

289

(1)

The Staff of Aesculapius

290

(1)

The Sycamore

291

(4)

The Magic Flute, 1956-1965

Style

295

(2)

Logic and "The Magic Flute"

297

(1)

Blessed Is the Man

298

(1)

Values in Use

299

(1)

Hometown Piece for Messrs. Alston and Reese

300

(3)

O to Bea Dragon

303

(1)

Enough: Jamestown, 1607-1957

304

(2)

Melchior Vulpius

306

(1)

In the Public Garden

307

(2)

The Arctic Ox (or Goat)

309

(3)

Saint Nicholas,

312

(2)

For February 14th

314

(1)

No Better Than "a Withered Daffodil"

315

(1)

Combat Cultural

316

(2)

Leonardo da Vinci's

318

(2)

Saint Valentine,

320

(1)

Lines for Narrator

321

(2)

Tell Me, Tell Me

323

(2)

Carnegie Hall: Rescued

325

(2)

Rescue with Yul Brynner

327

(2)

To Victor Hugo of My Crow Pluto

329

(3)

Yvor Winters-

332

(1)

Baseball and Writing

333

(3)

Arthur Mitchell

336

(1)

Blue Bug

337

(2)

Charity Overcoming Envy

339

(1)

To a Giraffe

340

(1)

"Avec Ardeur"

341

(3)

W.S. Landor

344

(1)

The Master Tailor

345

(1)

An Expedient-Leonardo da Vinci's-and a Query

346

(2)

Old Amusement Park

348

(3)

Late Poems, 1965-1972

Dream

351

(1)

In Lieu of the Lyre

352

(1)

The Mind, Intractable Thing

353

(1)

Granite and Steel

354

(1)

Love in America

355

(1)

For Katharine Elizabeth McBride, President of Bryn Mawr College

356

(1)

Tippoo's Tiger

357

(1)

The Camperdown Elm

358

(1)

Assistance

359

(1)

Mercifully

360

(1)

"Reminiscent of a Wave at the Curl"

361

(1)

A Christmas Poem

362

(1)

Enough

363

(1)

The Magician's Retreat

364

(1)

Prevalent at One Time

365

(4)

Selections from The Fables of La Fontaine

The Fox and the Grapes

369

(1)

The Lion in Love

370

(2)

The Animals Sick of the Plague

372

(2)

The Bear and the Garden-Lover

374

(2)

The Mouse Metamorphosed into a Maid

376

(3)

Marianne Moore's Notes

379

(24)

Editor's Notes, with the Poetry's Attributions and Variants

403

(42)

Index of Titles and First Lines

445

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The Poems of Marianne Moore

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