Marianne Moore Tree Poems
- 1. The Pangolin
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. 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,
... - 3. 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
... - 4. He "digesteth Harde Yron"
Although the aepyornis
or roc that lived in Madagascar, and
the moa are extinct,
the camel-sparrow, linked
... - 5. No Swan So Fine
"No water so still as the
dead fountains of Versailles." No swan,
with swart blind look askance
and gondoliering legs, so fine
... - 6. Poetry
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. He Made This Screen
not of silver nor of coral,
but of weatherbeaten laurel.
here, he introduced a sea
... - 8. 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
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