Marianne Moore Long Poems
- 1. 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
... - 2. Silence
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. Marriage
This institution,
perhaps one should say enterprise
out of respect for which
one says one need not change one's mind
... - 4. 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
... - 5. A Talisman
Under a splintered mast,
Torn from the ship and cast
Near her hull,
“A stumbling shepherd found
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