MANHATTAN THE UNPEOPLED CITY MIDNIGHT WORSHIP: BROOKLYN BRIDGE

Title: Precipitations

Author: Evelyn Scott

Language: English

Produced by Catherine Daly

Evelyn Scott

PRECIPITATIONS

1920

The author acknowledges the courtesy of the editors of THE POETRY
JOURNAL; OTHERS; THE EGOIST (London); POETRY: A MAGAZINE OF VERSE;
PLAYBOY; THE DIAL; THE LIBERATOR; OTHERS: An ANTHOLOGY OF THE NEW
VERSE; THE NATION (New York); and THE LYRIC, from all of which poems
in this volume have been reprinted.

Contents

Manhattan

The Unpeopled City

  Midnight Worship: Brooklyn Bridge
  Ascension: Autumn Dusk in Central Park
  Startled Forest: Hudson River
  Winter Streets
  February Springtime
  The Assumption of Columbine
  From Brooklyn
  Snow Dance
  Potter's Field
  Lights at Night
  Midnight

Crowds

  Summer Night
  New York
  Sunset: Battery Park
  Crowds
  Riots
  The City at Night

Vanities

Bread Poems

  Lullaby
  Embarkation of Cythera
  Christian Luxuries
  Narrow Flowers
  Eyes
  After Youth
  The Shadow that Walks Alone
  Bible Truth
  The Maternal Breast
  Air for G String
  Destiny

The Red Cross

  Hectic I-II
  Isolation Ward
  The Red Cross
  Hospital Night

Domestic Canticle

  Spring Song
  Home Again
  To a Sick Child
  Love Song
  Quarrel
  My Child
  The Tunnel I-V

Bruised Sunlight

Water Moods

  Rain on the Seashore
  Ship Masts
  Monochrome
  Antique
  Echo Looks at Herself
  Spell

Hungry Seasons

  Rainy Twilight
  The Storm
  Nymphs
  Winter Dawn

The Wall of Night

  Springtime Too Soon
  Stars
  Night Music
  Nocturne of Water
  The Long Moment
  Designs I-IV
  Argo
  Japanese Moon
  The Naiad
  Floodtide
  Mountain Pass in August

Contemporaries

Harmonics

  Young Men
  Young Girls
  House Spirits
  At the Meeting House
  Christians
  Devil's Cradle
  Women
  Penelope
  Poor People's Dreams
  For Wives and Mistresses

Portraits

  Portrait of Rich Old Lady
  Nigger
  The Maiden Mother
  A Pious Woman
  A Very Old Rose Jar
  The Nixie
  Old Ladies' Valhalla
  Portraits of Poets I-III
  Theodore Dreiser
  Pieta

Brazil Through A Mist

The Ranch

  Tropical Life
  Twenty-four Hours
  Rainy Season
  Mail on the Ranch
  The Vampire Bat
  Conservatism
  Little Pigs
  The Silly Ewe
  The Snake
  The Years
  Burning Mountains I-III
  Tropical Winter
  Talk on the Ranch

Les Malades des Pays Chauds

  Pride of Race
  Don Quixote Sojourns in Rio de Janeiro
  Convent Musings
  Guitarra
  November

The Coming of Christ

The Death of Columbine

  Duet
  From a Man Dying on a Cross
  Lagniappe
  Hail Mary!
  The Death of Columbine
  Pierrot Laughs
  The Transmigration of Caliban
  Gundry
  Viennese Waltz

Resurrection

  Immortality
  Autumn Night
  Venus' Fly Trap
  Suicide
  Leaves I-IV
  Allegro