New Collected Poems of Marianne Moore by Moore, Marianne -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Landing Page Title Page Contents Acknowledgments Conventions Followed Introduction THE POEMS OBSERVATIONS (1924)

To an Intra-Mural Rat Reticence and Volubility To a Chameleon A Talisman To a Prize Bird Injudicious Gardening Fear is Hope To a Strategist Is Your Town Nineveh? A Fool, a Foul Thing, a Distressful Lunatic To Military Progress An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish To a Steam Roller Diligence is to Magic as Progress is to Flight To a Snail “The Bricks are Fallen Down, We Will Build with Hewn Stones. The Sycamores are Cut Down, We Will Change to Cedars.” George Moore “Nothing will Cure the Sick Lion but to Eat an Ape” To the Peacock of France In this Age of Hard Trying, Nonchalance is Good and To Statecraft Embalmed The Monkey Puzzler Poetry The Past is the Present Pedantic Literalist “He Wrote The History Book” Critics and Connoisseurs To be Liked by You Would be a Calamity Like a Bulrush Sojourn in the Whale My Apish Cousins Roses Only Reinforcements The Fish Black Earth Radical In the Days of Prismatic Color Peter Dock Rats Picking And Choosing England When I Buy Pictures A Grave Those Various Scalpels The Labors of Hercules New York People’s Surroundings Snakes, Mongooses, Snake-Charmers, and the Like Bowls Novices Marriage Silence An Octopus Sea Unicorns and Land Unicorns

POEMS 1932–1936

Part of a Novel, Part of a Poem, Part of a Play

The Steeple-Jack The Student The Hero

No Swan So Fine The Jerboa Camellia Sabina The Plumet Basilisk The Frigate Pelican The Buffalo Nine Nectarines and Other Porcelain Pigeons See in the Midst of Fair Leaves Walking-Sticks and Paperweights and Watermarks

THE PANGOLIN AND OTHER VERSE (1936)

The Old Dominion

Virginia Britannia Bird-Witted Half Deity Smooth Gnarled Crape Myrtle

The Pangolin

from WHAT ARE YEARS (1941)

What are Years? Rigorists Light is Speech He “Digesteth Harde Yron” Spenser’s Ireland Four Quartz Crystal Clocks The Paper Nautilus

NEVERTHELESS (1944)

Nevertheless The Wood-Weasel Elephants A Carriage from Sweden The Mind is an Enchanting Thing In Distrust of Merits

POEMS 1944–1951

“Keeping Their World Large” His Shield Propriety Voracities and Verities Sometimes are Interacting A Face By Disposition of Angels Efforts of Affection The Icosasphere Pretiolae Armor’s Undermining Modesty Quoting An Also Private Thought We Call Them the Brave

LIKE A BULWARK (1956)

Bulwarked against Fate Apparition of Splendor Then the Ermine: Tom Fool at Jamaica The Web One Weaves of Italy The Staff of Aesculapius The Sycamore Rosemary Style Logic and “The Magic Flute” Blessed is the Man

from O TO BE A DRAGON (1959)

O to Be a Dragon I May, I Might, I Must A Jellyfish Values in Use Hometown Piece for Messrs. Alston and Reese Enough Melchior Vulpius No better than “a withered daffodil” In the Public Garden The Arctic Ox (or Goat) Saint Nicholas, For February 14th Combat Cultural Leonardo da Vinci’s

from THE ARCTIC OX (1964)

Blue Bug To Victor Hugo of My Crow Pluto Baseball and Writing To a Giraffe Arthur Mitchell Tell Me, Tell Me Rescue with Yul Brynner Carnegie Hall: Rescued An Expedient—Leonardo da Vinci’s—and a Query

from TELL ME, TELL ME (1966)

Granite and Steel In Lieu of the Lyre The mind, intractable thing Dream Old Amusement Park W. S. Landor Charity Overcoming Envy Saint Valentine,

POEMS 1963–1970

I’ve been Thinking … Love in America? Tippoo’s Tiger The Camperdown Elm Mercifully, “Like a Wave at the Curl” Enough The Magician’s Retreat

APPENDIX: POEMS 1915–1918

To a Man Working his Way through the Crowd To the Soul of “Progress” That Harp You Play So Well Counseil to a Bacheler Appellate Jurisdiction To William Butler Yeats on Tagore To a Friend in the Making Blake Diogenes Feed Me, Also, River God He Made This Screen Holes Bored in a Workbag by the Scissors Apropos of Mice The Just Man And In “Designing a Cloak to Cloak his Designs,” you Wrested from Oblivion, a Coat of Immortality for your own Use. The Past is the Present You Say You Said Old Tiger

MOORE’S NOTES EDITOR’S NOTES EDITING THE POEMS NOTES

Observations Poems 1932–1936 The Pangolin and Other Verse from What Are Years Nevertheless Poems 1944–1951 Like a Bulwark from O to Be a Dragon from The Arctic Ox from Tell Me, Tell Me Poems 1963–1970 Appendix: Poems 1915–1918 Sources for Moore’s Notes

ORIGINAL TABLES OF CONTENTS WORKS CITED INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES

A, B, C D, E, F G, H, I J, K, L M, N, O P, Q, R S, T, U V, W, X Y, Z

INDEX

A, B, C D, E, F G, H, I J, K, L M, N, O P, Q, R S, T, U V, W, X Y, Z

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