Marianne Moore Beauty Poems
- 1. Rosemary
Beauty and Beauty's son and rosemary -
Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly -
born of the sea supposedly,
at Christmas each, in company,
... - 2. Nine Nectarines And Other Porcelain
Arranged by two's as peaches are,
at intervals that all may liveâ??
eight and a single one, on twigs that
grew the year beforeâ??they look like
... - 3. Roses Only
You do not seem to realize that beauty is a liability rather
than
an asset - that in view of the fact that spirit creates form
we are justified in supposing
... - 4. Marriage
This institution,
perhaps one should say enterprise
out of respect for which
one says one need not change one's mind
... - 5. An Octopus
of ice. Deceptively reserved and flat,
it lies “in grandeur and in mass”
beneath a sea of shifting snow-dunes;
dots of cyclamen-red and maroon on its clearly defined
...
