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Harmonium (1923)
by Wallace Stevens
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Harmonium

by Wallace Stevens

New YorkAlfred • A • Knopf Mcmxxiii

COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.

To

MY WIFE

The poems in this book, with the exception of The Comedian as the Letter C and a few others, have been published before in Others, Secession, Rogue, The Soil, The Modern School, Broom, Contact, The New Republic, The Measure, The Little Review, The Dial, and particularly in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, of Chicago, edited by Harriet Monroe.

Contents

Earthy Anecdote 15
Invective against Swans 16
In the Carolinas 17
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage 18
The Plot against the Giant 20
Infanta Marina 21
Domination of Black 22
The Snow Man 24
The Ordinary Women 25
The Load of Sugar-Cane 27
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle 28
Nuances of a Theme by Williams 34
Metaphors of a Magnifico 35
Ploughing on Sunday 36
Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges 37
Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores 39
Fabliau of Florida 40
The Doctor of Geneva 41
Another Weeping Woman 42
Homunculus et la Belle Etoile 43
The Comedian as the Letter C 46
The World without Imagination 47
Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatan 50
Approaching Carolina 54
The Idea of a Colony 58
A Nice Shady Home 62
And Daughters with Curls 66
From the Misery of Don Joost 70
O, Florida, Venereal Soil 71
Last Looks at the Lilacs 73
The Worms at Heaven's Gate 74
The Jack Rabbit 75
Valley Candle 76
Anecdote of Men by the Thousand 77
The Silver Plough-Boy 78
The Apostrophe to Vincentine 79
Floral Decorations for Bananas 81
Anecdote of Canna 83
Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds 84
Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb 85
Of the Surface of Things 86
Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks 87
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman 89
The Place of the Solitaires 90
The Weeping Burgher 91
The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician 92
Banal Sojourn 93
Depression before Spring 94
The Emperor of Ice-Cream 95
The Cuban Doctor 96
Tea at the Palaz of Hoon 97
Exposition of the Contents of a Cab 98
Disillusionment of Ten O'clock 99
Sunday Morning 100
The Virgin Carrying a Lantern 105
Stars at Tallapoosa 106
Explanation 107
Six Significant Landscapes 108
Bantams in Pine-Woods 111
Anecdote of the Jar 112
Palace of the Babies 113
Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs 114
Jasmine's Beautiful Thoughts underneath the Willow 115
Cortège for Rosenbloom 116
Tattoo 118
The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws 119
Life is Motion 120
Architecture 121
The Wind Shifts 124
Colloquy with a Polish Aunt 125
Gubbinal 126
Two Figures in Dense Violet Night 127
Theory 128
To the One of Fictive Music 129
Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion 131
Peter Quince at the Clavier 132
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 135
Nomad Exquisite 138
Tea 139
To the Roaring Wind 140

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