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Tables of Contents for Etcetera
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Introduction
xiii
Richard S. Kennedy
Note on the Text
3
4
George James Firmage
The Harvard Years, 1911-1916
Early
Semi-Spring
7
1
The Paper Palace
8
1
Night shall eat these girls and boys
9
1
Literary Tributes
Chaucer
10
1
Great Dante stands in Florence, looking down
11
1
Fame Speaks
12
1
Helen
13
1
Love Poems
I have looked upon thee---and I have loved thee
14
1
Reverie
15
1
Thy face is a still white house of holy things
16
1
What is thy mouth to me?
17
1
Dedication
18
1
I love you
19
1
After your poppied hair inaugurates
20
1
Moon-in-the-Trees
21
1
When thou art dead, dead, and far from the splendid sin
22
1
You are tired
23
1
Let us lie here in the disturbing grass
24
1
Friends
T.A.M
25
1
S.F.D
26
1
Softly from its still lair in Plympton Street
27
1
S.T
28
1
Late
They have hung the sky with arrows
29
1
A painted wind has sprung
30
1
You shall sing my songs, O earth
31
1
In Healey's Palace I was sitting---
32
3
Experiments with Typography, Spacing, and Sound, 1916-1917
The awful darkness of the town
35
1
A Girl's Ring
36
1
logeorge lo wellifitisn't eddy how's the boy
37
1
wee people dwelling
38
1
the sky
39
1
beyond the stolid iron pond
40
1
mr. smith
41
1
don't get me wrong oblivion
42
2
wanta
44
1
maker of many mouths
45
4
Reflections of the War, Paris, Imprisonment, New York, Peace, 1918
along the justexisting road to Roupy
49
1
through the tasteless minute efficient room
50
1
my deathly body's deadly lady
51
1
first she like a piece of ill-oiled
52
1
The moon falls thru the autumn Behind prisons she grins
53
1
The moon-lit snow is falling like strange candy into the big eyes of the
54
1
Perhaps it was Myself sits down in this chair. There were two chairs, in fact
55
1
Noise
56
2
a Woman of bronze
58
1
hips IOOsest OOping shoulders blonde& pastoral hair, strong
59
1
this cigarette is extremely long
60
1
love was---entire excellently steep
61
4
Poems Left with Elaine Orr, 1918-1919
let us suspect, cherie, this not very big
65
1
sometime, perhaps in Paris we will
66
1
cherie the very, picturesque, last Day
67
1
my little heart is so wonderfully sorry
68
1
the spring has been exquisite and the
69
1
willing pitifully to bewitch
70
1
as
71
1
my lady is an ivory garden
72
2
if you like my poems let them
74
3
Poems from the Dial Papers, 1919-1920
the comedian stands on a corner, the sky is
77
1
like most godhouses this particular house
78
1
This is the vase, Here
79
1
my humorous ghost precisely will
80
2
dawn
82
1
Above a between-the-acts prattling of
83
1
when time delicately is sponging sum after
84
1
sometimes i am alive because with
85
1
o my wholly unwise and definite
86
1
my youthful lady will have other lovers
87
1
lady you have written me a letter
88
1
but turning a corner, i
89
1
you said Is
90
1
is
91
1
as one who(having written
92
2
in front of your house i
94
1
Lady, i will touch you with my mind
95
4
Poems from the 1920s
I
the newly
99
1
now two old ladies sit peacefully knitting
100
1
``out of the pants which cover me
101
1
pound pound pound
102
1
2 shes
103
2
II
When parsing warmths of dusk construe
105
1
Lady, since your footstep
106
1
being(just a little)
107
1
Lady
108
1
III
The Rain is a Handsome Animal
109
1
After Seeing French Funeral
110
1
taxis toot whirl people moving perhaps laugh into the slowly
111
1
long ago, between a dream and a dream
112
1
them which despair
113
1
Paris, thou art not
114
1
Perfectly a year, we watched together les enfants jumping and
115
2
look
117
1
when of your eyes one smile entirely brings down
118
1
this fear is no longer dear. You are not going to America and
119
1
IV
the other guineahen
120
1
love's absence is illusion, alias time
121
1
Float
122
1
birds meet above the new Moon
123
1
tonight the moon is round golden entire. It
124
3
Late Poems, 1930-1962
I
this (a up green hugestness who and climbs)
127
1
cont)-
128
1
mary green
129
1
lively and loathesome moe's respectably dead
130
1
``think of it:not so long ago''
131
2
out of bigg
133
1
II
the phonograph may(if it likes)be prophe
134
1
in hammamet did camping queers et al)
135
1
bud(spiggy nuvduh fienus
136
1
April`` this letter's dated ''23
137
1
come from his gal's
138
1
``she had that softness which is falsity''
139
1
says ol man no body---
140
1
I'm very fond of
141
2
devil crept in eden wood
143
1
III
love's the i guess most only verb that lives
144
1
love is a guess
145
1
we being not each other:without love
146
1
skies may be blue;yes
147
1
she, straddling my lap
148
1
n w
149
1
b
150
1
when (day's amazing murder with) perhaps
151
1
there are so many tictoc
152
1
time, be kind;herself and i
153
1
Us if therefore must forget ourselves)
154
1
now winging selves sing sweetly, while ghosts(there
155
1
every one of the red roses opened
156
1
IV
ringed
157
2
G ra D ua
159
1
ance)danc
160
1
Cri C
161
2
leastlessly
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1
s(
164
1
rainsweet
165
1
life shuts &(opens the world
166
1
like a little bear twilight
167
1
V
Ballade
168
1
for him alone life's worse than worst
169
1
all stars are(and not one star only)love
170
1
should far this from mankind's unmysteries
171
1
thing no is(of
172
1
should this fool die
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Appendices
A From the Poet's First Collection, 1904-1905
Dedicated to Dear Nana Clarke
177
1
As rooms are separated by a curtain
177
1
Our Flag
178
1
God
179
1
The River of Mist
180
1
B From the Cambridge Latin School Years, 1908-1911
The world is very big, and we
181
1
A chilly, murky night;
182
1
The Passing of the Year
183
1
Early Summer Sketch
184
2
Summer Song
186
1
If
187
1
The Eagle
188
2
The Boy and The Man
190
1
God, Thine the hand that doth extend
191
1
My Prayer
192
1
On souls robbed of their birth-right's better part
193
1
Death's Chimneys
194
1
After-Glow
195
2
C Translations from Horace, 1913
Farewell, runaway snows! For the meadow is green, and the tree stands
197
1
The fetters of winter are shattered, shattered
198
1
Ah, Postumus, fleet-footed are the years!
199
2
Who chides the tears that weep so dear a head?
201
1
O, blessed of the gods
202
5
Uncollected Poems
Note on the Text
207
65
George James Firmage
To William F. Bradbury
209
1
The coming of May
210
1
Ballad of the Scholar's Lament
211
1
Skating
212
1
Metamorphosis
213
1
Vision
214
1
Mist
215
1
Water-Lilies
216
1
Music
217
1
Summer Silence
218
1
Sunset
219
1
Ballade
220
2
Sonnet (A rain-drop on the eyelids of the earth,)
222
1
Sonnet (Long since, the flicker brushed with shameless wing)
223
1
Do you remember when the fluttering dusk
224
1
Nocturne
225
2
Sonnet (For that I have forgot the world these days,)
227
1
Night
228
1
Sonnet (No sunset, but a grey, great, struggling sky)
229
1
Longing
230
2
Ballad of Love
232
2
Ballade of Soul
234
2
Sapphics
236
1
Sonnet (I dreamed I was among the conquerors,)
237
1
Hokku
238
1
Belgium
239
1
W.H.W., Jr
240
1
Finis
241
1
because
242
1
if(you are i why certainly
243
1
The Red Front, translation of Front Rouge
244
22
Louis Aragon
Ballad of an Intellectual
266
3
american critic ad 1935
269
1
guilt is the cause of more disauders
270
1
Marianne Moore
271
1
Doveglion
272