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Precipitations By: Evelyn Scott (1893-1963) |
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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
MANHATTAN THE UNPEOPLED CITY MIDNIGHT WORSHIP: BROOKLYN BRIDGE In the rain
Rows of street lamps are saints in bright garments
That flow long with the bend of knees.
They lift pale heads nimbussed with golden spikes. Up the lanes of liquid onyx
Toward the high fire laden altars
Move the saints of Manhattan
In endless pilgrimage to death,
Amidst the asphodel and anemones of dawn. ASCENSION: AUTUMN DUSK IN CENTRAL PARK Featureless people glide with dim motion through a quivering
blue silver;
Boats merge with the bronze gold welters about their keels.
The trees float upward in gray and green flames.
Clouds, swans, boats, trees, all gliding up a hillside
After some gray old women who lift their gaunt forms
From falling shrouds of leaves. Thin fingered twigs clutch darkly at nothing.
Crackling skeletons shine.
Along the smutted horizon of Fifth Avenue
The hooded houses watch heavily
With oily gold eyes. STARTLED FORESTS: HUDSON RIVER The thin hill pushes against the mist.
Its fading defiance sounds in the umber and red of autumn leaves.
Like a dead arm around a warm throat
Is the sagging embrace of the river
Laid grayly about the shore. The train passes.
We emerge from a tunnel into a sky of thin blue morning glories
Where yellow lily bells tinkle down... Continue reading book >>
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