| Uniform title | Poems. Selections |
| Contents |
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 -- Index -- 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: Jamestown, 1607-1957 -- 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 -- 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 . . . |
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(Con't) 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. |
| Abstract |
"The definitive collected edition of one of our most innovative and beloved poets, Marianne Moore"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| LCCN | 2017003857 |
| ISBN | 9780374221041 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0374221049 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| Stock number | Farrar Straus & Giroux, C/O Mps 16365 James Madison Hwy, Gordonsville, VA, USA, 22942, (540)6727600 SAN 631-5011 |
