Marianne Moore Long Poems

  • 1.
    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
    ...
  • 2.
    My father used to say,
    “Superior people never make long visits,
    have to be shown Longfellow's grave
    nor the glass flowers at Harvard.
    ...
  • 3.
    This institution,
    perhaps one should say enterprise
    out of respect for which
    one says one need not change one's mind
    ...
  • 4.
    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
    ...
  • 5.
    Under a splintered mast,
    Torn from the ship and cast
    Near her hull,
    “A stumbling shepherd found
    ...
Total 5 Long Poems by Marianne Moore

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We 're making life seem like a man-killing race,
With our nerves all on edge and our jaws firmly set
We go rushing along; with our brows lined with sweat
And our cheeks pale and drawn every minute we dash,
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