Marianne Moore Tree Poems

  • 1.
    Another armored animalâ??scale
    lapping scale with spruce-cone regularity until they
    form the uninterrupted central
    tail row! This near artichoke with head and legs and
    ...
  • 2.
    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,
    ...
  • 3.
    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
    ...
  • 4.
    Although the aepyornis
    or roc that lived in Madagascar, and
    the moa are extinct,
    the camel-sparrow, linked
    ...
  • 5.
    "No water so still as the
    dead fountains of Versailles." No swan,
    with swart blind look askance
    and gondoliering legs, so fine
    ...
  • 6.
    I too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.
    Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers that there is in
    it after all, a place for the genuine.
    Hands that can grasp, eyes
    ...
  • 7.
    not of silver nor of coral,
    but of weatherbeaten laurel.

    here, he introduced a sea
    ...
  • 8.
    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
    ...
Total 8 Tree Poems by Marianne Moore

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