SPECTRA

A BOOK OF POETIC EXPERIMENTS

BY

ANNE KNISH
AND
EMANUEL MORGAN

NEW YORK
MITCHELL KENNERLEY
1916

COPYRIGHT 1916 BY
MITCHELL KENNERLEY

PRINTED IN AMERICA

CONTENTS

PAGE
[To Remy de Gourmont (Emanuel Morgan)]vii
[Preface (Anne Knish)] ix
SPECTRA BY EMANUEL MORGAN
OPUS PAGE
1[Drums] 53
2[Hope] 14
6[If I Were Only Dafter] 56
7[A Bunch of Grapes]8
9[Frogs' Legs on a Plate]57
13[A Peacock-Feather]11
14[I Had Put Out My Leaves]51
15[Despair Comes]6
16[The Guillotine]20
17[Needles and Pins]46
29[Knives]31
31[Thank God that We Can Laugh] 27
40[Two Cocktails Round a Smile] 35
41[Spectres] 2
45[The Locust-Tree] 49
46[No Other Angle] 40
47[Giver of Bribes in the Brightness of Morning] 37
55[The Impossible] 43
62[Three Little Creatures]16
63[Spears]23
78[I Am Beset] 63
79[Only Lovers] 66
101[The Piano] 61
104[Madagascar] 59
SPECTRA BY ANNE KNISH
OPUS PAGE
1[The Seconds Bob By] 41
40[I Have not Written—That You May Read] 26
50[The Piano Lives in a Dusk] 1
67[I Would Not in the Early Morning] 10
76[Years Are Nothing] 4
80[Oh, My Little House of Glass] 52
88[So We Came Back Again] 36
96[You Are the Delphic Oracle] 33
118[If Bathing Were a Virtue] 7
122[Upstairs There Lies a Sodden Thing] 39
126[His Eyes] 12
131[I Am Weary] 18
134[Listen, My Friend] 21
135[In a Tomb of Argolis] 64
150[Sounds] 29
151[Candle, Candle] 15
181[Skeptical Cat] 62
182[He's the Remnant of a Suit] 60
187[I Do Not Know Very Much] 58
191[The Black Bark of a Dog] 48
195[Her Soul Was Freckled] 55
200[If I Should Enter to his Chamber] 45