PEDANTIC LITERALIST

TO A STEAM ROLLER

DILIGENCE IS TO MAGIC AS PROGRESS IS TO FLIGHT

THOSE VARIOUS SCALPELS

FEED ME, ALSO, RIVER GOD,

TO WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS ON TAGORE

HE MADE THIS SCREEN

TALISMAN

BLACK EARTH

"HE WROTE THE HISTORY BOOK," IT SAID

YOU ARE LIKE THE REALISTIC PRODUCT OF AN IDEALISTIC SEARCH FOR GOLD AT THE FOOT OF THE RAINBOW

REINFORCEMENTS

ROSES ONLY

IN THIS AGE OF HARD TRYING NONCHALANCE IS GOOD, AND

THE FISH

MY APISH COUSINS

WHEN I BUY PICTURES

PICKING AND CHOOSING

ENGLAND

DOCK RATS

RADICAL

POETRY

IN THE DAYS OF PRISMATIC COLOR

IS YOUR TOWN NINEVEH?

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.

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CONTENTS

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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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POEMS

BY MARIANNE MOORE

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