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Tulips & Chimneys (1922 Manuscript)

TULIPS

EPITHALAMION
OF NICOLETTE
SONGS
I (thee will i praise between those rivers whose
II when life is quite through with
III Always before your voice my soul
IV Thy fingers make early flowers of
V All in green went my love riding
VI Where's Madge then,
VII Doll's boy 's asleep
VIII cruelly,love
IX when god lets my body be
PUELLA MEA
CHANSONS INNOCENTES
I in Just-
II hist whist
III little tree
IV why did you go
V Tumbling-hair / picker of buttercups / violets
ORIENTALE
I i spoke to thee
II my love
III listen
IV unto thee i
V lean candles hunger in
VI the emperor
AMORES
I your little voice / Over the wires came leaping
II in the rain-
III there is a
IV consider O
V as is the sea marvelous
VI into the smiting
VII if i believe
VIII the glory is fallen out of
IX i like
X after five
XI O Distinct
LA GUERRE
I Humanity i love you
II earth like a tipsy
III the bigness of cannon
IV little ladies more
V O sweet spontaneous
IMPRESSIONS
I Lady of Silence
II the sky a silver
III writhe and
IV the hills
V stinging
VI the / sky / was
VII i was considering how
VIII between green / mountains
IX the hours rise up putting off stars and it is
X i will wade out / till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
PORTRAITS
I of my
II being
III as usual i did not find him in cafes,the more dissolute atmosphere
IV the skinny voice
V Babylon slim
VI the dress was a suspicious madder,importing the cruelty of roses.
VII of evident invisibles
VIII the
IX ta
X it's just like a coffin's
XI between nose-red gross
XII i walked the boulevard
XIII 5
XIV the young
XV one April dusk the
XVI between the breasts
XVII but the other
XVIII inthe,exquisite;
XIX the rose
XX spring omnipotent goddess thou dost
XXI Buffalo Bill 's
XXII Cleopatra built
XXIII Picasso
XXIV conversation with my friend is particularly
XXV my mind is
XXVI the waddling
XXVII her
XXVIII raise the shade
XXIX somebody knew Lincoln somebody Xerxes
POST IMPRESSIONS
I windows go orange in the slowly.
II beyond the brittle towns asleep
III the moon is hiding in
IV riverly is a flower
V any man is wonderful
VI into the strenuous briefness
VII at the head of this street a gasping organ is waving moth-eaten
VIII i was sitting in mcsorley's. outside it was New York and beautifully snowing.
IX at the ferocious phenomenon of 5 o'clock i find myself gently decompos-
X SNO
XI i am going to utter a tree,Nobody

CHIMNEYS

SONNETS—REALITIES
I the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
II when i am in Boston,i do not speak.
III goodby Betty,don't remember me
IV ladies and gentlemen this little girl
V by god i want above fourteenth
VI when you rang at Dick Mid's Place
VII a fragrant sag of fruit distinctly grouped.
VIII irreproachable ladies firmly lewd
IX nearer:breath of my breath:take not thy tingling
X when thou hast taken thy last applause,and when
XI god pity me whom(god distinctly has)
XII "kitty". sixteen,5'1",white,prostitute.
XIII it started when Bill's chip let on to
XIV she sits dropping on a caret of clenched arms
XV unnoticed woman from whose kind large flesh
XVI twentyseven bums give a prostitute the once
XVII of this wilting wall the colour drub
XVIII whereas by dark really released,themodern
XIX my girl's tall with hard long eyes
XX Dick Mid's large bluish face without eyebrows
XXI life boosts herself rapidly at me

SONNETS—UNREALITIES
I and what were roses. Perfume?for i do
II when unto nights of autumn do complain
III a connotation of infinity
IV Thou in whose swordgreat story shine the deeds
V when my sensational moments are no more
VI god gloats upon Her stunning flesh. Upon
VII O Thou to whom the musical white spring
VIII when the proficient poison of sure sleep
IX this is the garden:colours come and go,
X it is at moments after i have dreamed
XI it may not always be so;and i say
XII I have seen her a stealthily frail
XIII if learned darkness from our searched world
XIV who's most afraid of death?thou / art of him
XV come nothing to my comparable soul
XVI when citied day with the sonorous homes
XVII will suddenly trees leap from winter and will
XVIII a wind has blown the rain away and blown

SONNETS—ACTUALITIES
I when my love comes to see me it's
II it is funny,you will be dead some day.
III i have loved,let us see if that's all.
IV the mind is its own beautiful prisoner.
V even a pencil has fear to
VI let's live suddenly without thinking
VII yours is the music for no instrument
VIII fabulous against ,a,fathoming jelly
IX by little accurate saints thickly which tread
X a thing most new complete fragile intense,
XI autumn is:that between there and here
XII my love is building a building
XIII perhaps it is to feel strike
XIV the ivory performing rose
XV my naked lady framed
XVI i have found what you are like
XVII -G O N splashes-sink
XVIII my sonnet is A light goes on in
XIX (the phonograph's voice like a keen spider skipping
XX you asked me to come:it was raining a little,
XXI (let us tremble)a personal radiance sits
XXII utterly and amusingly i am pash
XXIII notice the convulsed orange inch of moon
XXIV and this day it was Spring?.us

& [AND] (1925)
Dedication

A
POST IMPRESSIONS
I the wind is a Lady with
II Take for example this:
III Paris;this April sunset completely utters
IV I remark this beach has been used too. much Too. originally
V my smallheaded pearshaped
VI of this sunset(which is so
VII my eyes are fond of the east side
VIII suppose
PORTRAITS
I when the spent day begins to frail
II impossibly
III here is little Effie's head

N
&: SEVEN POEMS
I i will be
II i'll tell you a dream i had once i was away up in the sky Blue, everything:
III Spring is like a perhaps hand
IV Who / Threw the silver dollar up into the tree? / I didn't said / the little
V gee i like to think of dead it means nearer because deeper firmer
VI (one!)
VII who knows if the moon's

D
SONNETS—REALITIES
I O It's Nice To Get Up In,the slipshod mucous kiss
II my strength becoming wistful in a glib
III the dirty colours of her kiss have just
IV light cursed falling in a singular block
V the bed is not very big
VI the poem her belly marched through me as
VII an amiable putrescence carpenters
VIII her careful distinct sex whose sharp lips comb
IX in making Marjorie god hurried
SONNETS—ACTUALITIES
I before the fragile gradual throne of night
II when i have thought of you somewhat too
III if i should sleep with a lady called death
IV upon the room's / silence,i will sew
V a blue woman with sticking out breasts hanging
VI when you went away it was morning
VII i like my body when it is with your

Is 5 (1926)
Foreword

ONE
I FIVE AMERICANS
I. LIZ
II. MAME
III. GERT
IV. MARJ
V. FRAN
II POEM,OR BEAUTY HURTS MR. VINAL
III curtains part)
IV workingman with hand so hairy-sturdy
V yonger deadfromtheneckup graduate of a
VI Jimmie's got a goil / goil / goil, / Jimmie
VII listen my children and you
VIII even if all desires things moments be
IX death is more than
X nobody loses all the time
XI now dis "daughter" uv eve(who aint precisely slim)sim
XII (and i imagine
XIII it really must
XIV ITEM
XV IKEY(GOLDBERG)'S WORTH I'M
XVI ?
XVII this young question mark man
XVIII mr youse needn't be so spry
XIX she being Brand
XX slightly before the middle of Congressman Pudd
XXI ODE
XXII on the Madam's best april the
XXIII (as that named Fred
XXIV my uncle
XXV than(by yon sunset's wintry glow
XXVI weazened Irrefutable unastonished
XXVII MEMORABILIA
XXVIII a man who had fallen among thieves
XXIX this evangelist
XXX (ponder,darling,these busted statues
XXXI poets yeggs and thirsties
XXXII Will i ever forget that precarious moment?
XXXIII voices to voices,lip to lip
XXXIV life hurl my

TWO
I the season 'tis,my lovely lambs,
II opening of the chambers close
III "next to of course god america i
IV it's jolly
V look at this)
VI first Jock he
VII lis
VIII come,gaze with me upon this dome
IX 16 heures
X my sweet old etcetera

THREE
I now that fierce few
II Among / these / red pieces of
III it is winter a moon in the afternoon
IV candles and
V will out of the kindness of their hearts a few philosophers tell me
VI but observe;although
VII sunlight was over

FOUR
I the moon looked into my window
II if being mortised with a dream
III here's a little mouse)and
IV but if i should say
V in spite of everything
VI you are not going to,dear. You are not going to and
VII since feeling is first
VIII some ask praise of their fellows
IX supposing i dreamed this)
X you are like the snow only
XI because
XII you being in love
XIII Nobody wears a yellow
XIV it is so long since my heart has been with yours
XV i am a beggar always
XVI if within tonight's erect
XVII how this uncouth enchanted
XVIII i go to this window

FIVE
I after all white horses are in bed
II touching you i say(it being Spring
III along the brittle treacherous bright streets
IV our touching hearts slenderly comprehend
V if i have made,my lady,intricate

W [ViVa] (1931)

I ,mean-
II oil tel duh woil doi sez
III the surely
IV there are 6 doors.
V myself,walking in Dragon st
VI but mr can you maybe listen there's
VII Space being(don't forget to remember)Curved
VIII (one fine day)
IX y is a WELL KNOWN ATHLETE'S BRIDE
X thethe
XI a / mong crum / bling people(a
XII poor But TerFLY
XIII remarked Robinson Jefferson
XIVwhat time is it i wonder never mind
XV well)here's looking at ourselves
XVI tell me not how electricity or
XVII FULL SPEED ASTERN)
XVIII "Gay" is the captivating cognomen of a Young Woman of cambridge,mass.
XIX i will cultivate within
XX but granted that it's nothing paradoxically enough beyond mere personal
XXI helves surling out of eakspeasies per(reel)hapsingly
XXII Lord John Unalive(having a fortune of fifteengrand
XXIII buncha hardboil guys from duh A.C. fulla
XXIV from the cognoscenti
XXV murderfully in midmost o.c.an
XXVI ohld song
XXVII the first president to be loved by his
XXVIII serene immediate silliest and whose
XXIX in a middle of a room
XXX i sing of Olaf glad and big
XXXI memory believes
XXXII Wind Wong,uninterred at twice
XXXIII innerly
XXXIV don't cries to please my
XXXV what is strictly fiercely and wholly dies
XXXVI sunset)edges become swiftly
XXXVII how
XXXVIII n(o)w / the
XXXIX An(fragrance)Of
XL thou / firsting a hugeness of twi / -light
XLI twi- / is -Light bird
XLII structure,miraculous challenge,devout am
XLIII if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have
XLIV i'd think "wonder
XLV you
XLVI i met a man under the moon
XLVII when rain whom fear
XLVIII come a little further—why be afraid—
XLIX a light Out) / & first of all foam
L when hair falls off and eyes blur And
LI a clown's smirk in the skull of a baboon
LII it)It will it
LIII breathe with me this fear
LIV if i love You
LV speaking of love(of
LVI lady will you come with me into
LVII somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
LVIII is there a flower(whom
LIX my darling since
LX because i love you)last night
LXI if you and i awakening
LXII item: is / Clumsily with of
LXIII be unto love as rain is unto colour;create
LXIV granted the all / Saving our young kiss only
LXV but being not amazing:without love
LXVI nothing is more exactly terrible than
LXVII put off your faces,Death:for day is over
LXVIII but if a living dance upon dead minds
LXIX so standing,our eyes filled with wind,and the
LXX here is the ocean,this is moonlight:say

No Thanks (1935 Manuscript)
Initial Dedication

1 mOOn Over tOwns mOOn
2 moon over gai
3 that which we who're alive in spite of mirrors
4 i
5 a)glazed mind layed in a / urinal
6 exit a kind of unkindness exit
7 sonnet entitled how to run the world)
8 the( / Wistfully
9 o pr
10 little man
11 ci-g?t 1 Foetus(unborn to not die
12 why why
13 r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r
14 mouse)Won
15 one nonsufficiently inunderstood
16 may i feel said he
17 o
18 this little
19 who before dying demands not rebirth
20 go(perpe)go
21 IN) / all those who go
22 when muckers pimps and tratesmen
23 he does not have to feel because he thinks
24 "let's start a magazine
25 this(that
26 what does little Ernest croon
27 little joe gould has lost his teeth and doesn't know where
28 that famous fatheads find that each
29 most(people
30 kumrads die because they're told)
31 does yesterday's perfection seem not quite
32 numb(and
33 emptied.hills.listen.
34 snow)says!Says
35 how dark and single,where he ends,the earth
36 into a truly
37 conceive a man,should he have anything
38 SNOW
39 move
40 as if as
41 here's to opening and upward,to leaf and to sap
42 out of a supermetamathical subpreincestures
43 theys sO alive / (who is / ?niggers)
44 the boys i mean are not refined
45 sometimes / in)Spring a someone will lie(glued
46 swi( / across!gold's
47 ondumonde"
48 floatfloafloflf
49 silent unday by silently not night
50 much i cannot)
51 at dusk / just when
52 Spring(side
53 what a proud dreamhorse pulling(smoothloomingly)through
54 Jehovah buried,Satan dead,
55 worshipping Same
56 this mind made war
57 when / from a sidewalk / out of(blown never quite to
58 love is a place
59 sh estiffl
60 (b / eLl / s? / bE
61 love's function is to fabricate unknownness
62 we)under)over,the thing of floating Of
63 birds( / here,inven
64 Do.
65 if night's mostness(and whom did merely day
66 death(having lost)put on his universe
67 come(all you mischief-
68 be of love(a little)
69 reason let others give and realness bring—
70 brIght
71 morsel miraculous and meaningless
Terminal Dedication

New Poems [from Collected Poems] (1938)
Introduction

1 un
2 kind)
3 a football with white eyebrows the
4 (of Ever-Ever Land i speak
5 lucky means finding
6 Q:dwo
7 &-moon-He-be-hind-a-mills
8 this little bride & groom are
9 so little he is
10 nor woman / (just as it be
11 my specialty is living said
12 The Mind's(
13 if i
14 hanged
15 economic secu
16 beware beware beware
17 only as what(out of a flophouse)floats
18 must being shall
19 may my heart always be open to little
20 the people who
21 porky & porkie
22 you shall above all things be glad and young.

50 Poems (1940)
Dedication

1 !blac
2 fl
3 If you can't eat you got to
4 nobody loved this
5 am was. are leaves few this. is these a or
6 flostam and jetsam
7 moan
8 the Noster was a ship of swank
9 warped this perhapsy
10 spoke joe to jack
11 red-rag and pink-flag
12 (will you teach a
13 proud of his scientific attitude
14 the way to hump a cow is not
15 mrs
16 )when what hugs stopping earth than silent is
17 youful
18 ecco a letter starting "dearest we"
19 there is a here and
20 harder perhaps than a newengland bed
21 six
22 nouns to nouns
23 a pretty a day
24 these people socalled were not given hearts
25 as freedom is a breakfastfood
26 wherelings whenlings
27 buy me an ounce and i'll sell you a pound.
28 there are possibly 2 ? or impossibly 3
29 anyone lived in a pretty how town
30 the silently little blue elephant shyly(he was terri
31 not time's how(anchored in what mountaining roots
32 newlys of silence
33 one slipslouch twi
34 my father moved through dooms of love
35 you which could grin three smiles into a dead
36 i say no world
37 these children singing in stone a
38 love is the every only god
39 denied night's face
40 a peopleshaped toomany-ness fat too
41 up into the silence the green
42 love is more thicker than forget
43 hate blows a bubble of despair into
44 air,
45 enters give
46 grEEn's d
47 (sitting in a tree-)
48 mortals)
49 i am so glad and very
50 what freedom's not some under's mere above

1 x 1 [One Times One] (1944)

1
I nonsun blob a
II neither could say
III it's over a(see just
IV of all the blessings which to man
V squints a blond
VI my(his from daughter's mother's zero mind
VII ygUGuh
VIII applaws)
IX a salesman is an it that stinks Excuse
X a politician is an arse upon
XI mr u will not be missed
XII it was a goodly co
XIII plato told
XIV pity this busy monster,manunkind,
XV ("fire stop thief help murder save the world"
XVI one's not half two. It's two are halves of one:

x
XVII one(Floatingly)arrive
XVIII as any(men's hells having wrestled with)
XIX when you are silent,shining host by guest
XX what if a much of a which of a wind
XXI dead every enormous piece
XXII no man,if men are gods;but if gods must
XXIII love is a spring at which
XXIV (once like a spark)
XXV what over and which under
XXVI when god decided to invent
XXVII old mr ly
XXVIII rain or hail
XXIX let it go—the
XXX Hello is what a mirror says
XXXI a-
XXXII i've come to ask you if there isn't a
XXXIII open green those
XXXIV nothing false and possible is love
XXXV except in your
XXXVI true lovers in each happening of their hearts
XXXVII we love each other very dearly / ,more
XXXVIII yes is a pleasant country:
XXXIX all ignorance toboggans into know
XL darling!because my blood can sing

1

XLI how
XLII might these be thrushes climbing through almost(do they
XLIII if(among
XLIV these(whom;pretends
XLV i think you like"
XLVI open your heart:
XLVII until and i heard
XLVIII so isn't small one littlest why,
XLIX trees / were in(give
L which is the very
LI "sweet spring is your
LII life is more true than reason will deceive
LIII o by the by
LIV if everything happens that can't be done
Dedication

XAIPE (1950)
Dedication

1 this(let's remember)day died again and
2 hush)
3 purer than purest pure
4 this out of within itself moo
5 swim so now million many worlds in each
6 dying is fine)but Death
7 we miss you,jack—tacfully you(with one cocked
8 o
9 possibly thrice we glimpsed— / more likely twice
10 or who and who)
11 so many selves(so many fiends and gods
12 tw
13 chas sing does(who
14 out of more find than seeks
15 hair your a brook
16 if the
17 (swooning)a pillar of youngly
18 a(ncient)a
19 out of the mountain of his soul comes
20 goo-dmore-ning(en
21 jake hates / all the girls(the
22 when serpents bargain for the right to squirm
23 three wealthy sisters swore the'd never part:
24 one day a nigger
25 pieces(in darker
26 who sharpens every dull
27 "summer is over
28 noone" autumnal this great lady's gaze
29 nine birds(rising
30 snow means that
31 infinite jukethrob smoke & swallow to dis
32 blossoming are people
33 if a cheerfulest Elephantangelchild should sit
34 a thrown a
35 light's lives lurch / a once world quickly from rises
36 quick i the death of thing
37 F is for foetus(a
38 why must itself up every of a park
39 open his head,baby
40 i'm
41 whose are these(wraith a clinging with a wraith)
42 neither awake
43 o to be in finland
44 where's Jack Was
45 when your honest redskin toma
46 a kike is the most dangerous
47 meet mr universe(who clean
48 &(all during the
49 this is a rubbish of human rind
50 no time ago
51 who were so dark of heart they might not speak,
52 to start,to hesitate;to stop
53 mighty guest of merely me
54 maybe god
55 (fea
56 a like a
57 (im)c-a-t(mo)
58 after screamgroa
59 the little horse is newIY
60 (nothing whichful about
61 if(touched by love's own secret)we,like homing
62 in
63 honour corruption villainy holiness
64 the of an it ignoblest he
65 i thank You God for most this amazing
66 the great advantage of being alive
67 when faces called flowers float out of the ground
68 love our so right
69 now all the fingers of this tree(darling)have
70 blue the triangular why
71 luminous tendril of celestial wish

95 Poems (1958)
Dedication

1 l(a
2 to stand(alone)in some
3 now air is air and thing is thing:no bliss
4 this man's heart
5 crazy jay blue)
6 spirit colossal
7 because you take life in your stride(instead
8 dominic has
9 both eaching come ghostlike
10 maggie and milly and molly and may
11 in time's a noble mercy of proportion
12 lily has a rose
13 So shy shy shy(and with a
14 but also dying
15 on littlest this
16 in time of daffodils(who know
17 for prodigal read generous
18 once White&Gold
19 un(bee)mo
20 off a pane)the
21 joys faces friends
22 why from this her and him
23 albutnotquitemost
24 dim
25 that melancholy
26 round a so moon could dream(i sus
27 jack's white horse(up
28 as joe gould says in
29 ev erythingex Cept:
30 what Got him was Noth
31 a he as o
32 who(at
33 a gr
34 ADHUC SUB JUDICE LIS
35 "so you're hunting for ann well i'm looking for will"
36 yes but even
37 handsome and clever and he went cruising
38 s.ti:rst;hiso,nce;ma:n
39 THANKSGIVING (1956)
40 silence
41 Beautiful
42 from spiralling ecstatically this
43 who(is?are?)who
44 —laughing to find
45 i love you much(most beautiful darling)
46 never could anyone
47 out of night's almosT Floats a colour(in
48 someone i am wandering a town(if its
49 noone and a star stand,am to am
50 !
51 f / eeble a blu
52 why
53 n
54 ardensteil-henarub-izabeth)
55 you no
56 home means that
57 old age sticks
58 a total stranger one black day
59 when any mortal(even the most odd)
60 dive for dreams
61 Young m
62 your birthday comes to tell me this
63 precisely as unbig a why as i'm
64 out of the lie of no
65 first robin the;
66 "but why should"
67 this little huge
68 the(oo)is
69 over us if(as what was dusk becomes
70 whatever's merely wilful,
71 stand with your lover on the ending earth—
72 i shall imagine life
73 let's,from some loud unworld's most rightful wrong
74 sentinel robins two
75 (hills chime with thrush)
76 these from my mother's greatgrandmother's rosebush white
77 i am a little church(no great cathedral)
78 all nearness pauses,while a start can grow
79 whippoorwill this
80 if the Lovestar grows most big
81 here's s
82 now comes the good rain farmers pray for(and
83 perished have safe small
84 how generous is that himself the sun
85 here pasture ends—
86 this
87 now(more near ourselves than we)
88 joyful your complete fearless and pure love
89 now what were motionless move(exists no
90 rosetree,rosetree
91 unlove's the heavenless hell and homeless home
92 i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
93 spring!may—
94 being to timelessness as it's to time,
95 if up's the word;and a world grows greener

73 Poems (1963)

1 O the sun comes up-up-up in the opening
2 for any ruffian of the sky
3 seeker of truth
4 SONG
5 the first of all my dreams was of
6 fair ladies tall lovesr
7 it's
8 plant Magic dust
9 now is a ship
10 because it's
11 humble one(gifted with
12 Me up at does
13 o
14 a great
15 at just 5 a
16 e
17 n
18 nobody could / in superhuman flights
19 everybody happy?
20 fearlessandbosomy
21 why
22 annie died the other day
23 nite)
24 insu nli gh t
25 a grin without a
26 if seventy were young
27 in heavenly realms of hellas dwelt
28 "right here the other night something
29 the greedy the people
30 one winter afternoon
31 POEM(or
32 all which isn't singing is mere talking
33 christ but they're few
34 "nothing" the unjust man complained
35 the trick of finding what you didn't lost
36 if in beginning twilight of winter will stand
37 now that,more nearest even than your face
38 silently if,out of not knowable
39 white guardians of the universe of sleep
40 your homecoming will be my homecoming—
41 a round face near the top of the stairs
42 n
43 may i be gay
44 Now i lay(with everywhere around)
45 what time is it?it is by every star
46 out of midsummer's blazing most not night
47 without the mercy of
48 t,h;r:u;s,h;e:s
49 faithfully tinying at twilight voice
50 while a once world slips from
51 but
52 who are you,little i
53 of all things under our
54 timeless
55 i
56 "could that" i marvelled "be
57 mi(dreamlike)st
58 & sun &
59 who is this
60 2 little whos
61 one
62 now does our world descend
63 (listen)
64 "o purple finch / please tell me why
65 "though your sorrows not
66 D-re-A-mi-N-gl-Y
67 enter no(silence is the blood whose flesh
68 what is
69 !hope
70 pity his how illimitable plight
71 how many moments must(amazing each
72 wild(at our first)beasts uttered human words
73 all worlds have halfsight,seeing either with

Uncollected Poems (1910-1962)

1 TO WILLIAM F. BRADBURY
2 THE COMING OF MAY
3 BALLAD OF THE SCHOLAR'S LAMENT
4 SKATING
5 METAMORPHOSIS
6 VISION
7 MIST
8 WATER-LILIES
9 MUSIC
10 SUMMER SILENCE
11 SUNSET
12 BALLADE
13 SONNET (A rain-drop on the eyelids of the earth,)
14 SONNET (Long since, the flicker brushed with shameless wing)
15 Do you remember when the fluttering dusk,
16 NOCTURNE
17 SONNET (For that I have forgot the world these days,)
18 NIGHT
19 SONNET (No sunset, but a grey, great, struggling sky)
20 LONGING
21 BALLAD OF LOVE
22 BALLADE OF SOUL
23 SAPPHICS
24 SONNET (I dreamed I was among the conquerors,)
25 HOKKU
26 BELGIUM
27 W.H.W., JR.
28 FINIS
29 because
30 THE RED FRONT, translation of Front Rouge by Louis Aragon
31 if(you are i why certainly
32 BALLAD OF AN INTELLECTUAL
33 american critic ad 1935
34 guilt is the cause of more disauders
35 MARIANNE MOORE
36 DOVEGLION

Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems (1983)

The Harvard Years, 1911-16
EARLY POEMS
I SEMI-SPRING
II THE PAPER PALACE
III Night shall eat these girls and boys.
LITERARY TRIBUTES
I CHAUCER
II Great Dante stands in Florence, looking down
III FAME SPEAKS
IV HELEN
LOVE POEMS
I I have looked upon thee—and I have loved thee,
II REVERIE
III Thy face is a still white house of holy things,
IV What is thy mouth to me?
V DEDICATION
VI I love you
VII After your poppied hair inaugurates
VIII Moon-in-the-Trees,
IX When thou art dead,dead,and far from the splendid sin,
X You are tired,
XI Let us lie here in the disturbing grass,
FRIENDS
I T.A.M.
II S.F.D.
III Softly from its still lair in Plympton Street
IV S.T.
LATE POEMS
I They have hung the sky with arrows,
II A painted wind has sprung
III You shall sing my songs, O earth.
IV In Healey's Palace I was sitting—

Experiments with Typography, Spacing and Sound, 1916-17
I The awful darkness of the town
II A GIRL'S RING
III logeorge / lo / wellifitisn't eddy how's the boy
IV wee people / dwelling
V the sky
VI beyond the stolid iron pond
VII mr. Smith
VIII don't get me wrong oblivion
IX wanta
X maker of many mouths

Reflections of the War, Paris, Imprisonment, New York, Peace, 1918
I along the justexisting road to Roupy
II through the tasteless minute efficient room
III my deathly body's deadly lady
IV first she like a piece of ill-oiled
V The moon falls thru the autumn Behind prisons she grins,
VI The moon-lit snow is falling like strange candy into the big eyes of the
VII Perhaps it was Myself sits down in this chair. There were two chairs,in fact.
VIII NOISE
IX A Woman / of bronze
X hips lOOsest ooping shoulders blonde& pastoral hair,strong,
XI This cigarette is extremely long,
XII love was—entire excellently steep

Poems Left with Elaine Orr, 1918-19
I let us suspect,ch?rie,this not very big
II sometimes,perhaps in Paris we will
III ch?rie / the very,picturesque,last Day
IV my little heart is so wonderfully sorry
V the spring has been exquisite and the
VI willing pitifully to bewitch
VII as
VIII my lady is an ivory garden,
IX if you like my poems let them

Poems from the Dial Papers, 1919-1920
I the comedian stands on a corner,the sky is
II like most godhouses this particular house
III This is the vase, Here
IV my humorous ghost precisely will
V dawn
VI Above a between-the-acts prattling of
VII when time delicately is sponging sum after
VIII sometimes i am alive because with
IX o my wholly unwise and definite
X my youthful lady will have other lovers
XI lady you have written me a letter
XII but turning a corner ,i
XIII you said Is
XIV is
XV as one who(having written
XVI in front of your house i
XVII Lady,i will touch you with my mind.

Poems from the 1920's
I
1 the newly
2 now two old ladies sit peacefully knitting,
3 "out of the pants which cover me
4 pound pound pound
5 2 shes
II
1 When parsing warmths of dusk construe
2 Lady,since your footstep
3 being(just a little)
4 Lady
III
1 THE RAIN IS A HANDSOME ANIMAL
2 AFTER SEEING FRENCH FUNERAL
3 taxis toot whirl people moving perhaps laugh into the slowly
4 long ago,between a dream and a dream
5 them which despair
6 Paris,thou art not
7 Perfectly a year,we watched together les enfants jumping and
8 look
9 when of your eyes one smile entirely brings down
10 this fear is no longer dear. You are not going to America and
IV
1 the other guineahen
2 love's absence is illusion,alias time
3 Float
4 birds meet above the new Moon
5 tonight the moon is round golden entire. It

Late Poems, 1930-62
I
1 this(a up green hugestness who and climbs)
2 cont)-
3 mary green
4 lively and loathesome moe's respectably dead
5 "think of it:not so long ago
6 out of bigg
II
1 the phonograph may(if it likes)be prophe
2 in hammamet did camping queers et al)
3 bud(spiggy nuvduh fienus
4 April" / this letter's dated / "23,
5 come from his gal's
6 "she had that softness which is falsity"
7 says ol man no body—
8 I'm very fond of
9 devil crept in eden wood
III
1 love's the i guess most only verb that lives
2 love is a guess
3 we being not each other:without love
4 skies may be blue;yes
5 she,straddling my lap,
6 n w
7 b
8 when / (day's amazing murder with) / perhaps
9 there are so many tictoc
10 time,be kind;herself and i
11 Us if therefore must forget ourselves)
12 now winging selves sing sweetly,while ghosts(there
13 every one of the red roses opened

IV
1 ringed
2 G / ra / D / ua
3 ance)danc
4 Cri / C
5 leastlessly
6 s(
7 rainsweet
8 life / shuts &(opens the world
9 like a little bear twilight
V
1 BALLADE
2 for him alone life's worse than worst
3 all stars are(and not one star only)love
4 should far this from mankind's unmysteries
5 thing no is(of
6 should this fool die

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