POEMS
BY MARIANNE MOORE
LONDON
THE EGOIST PRESS
2 Robert Street, Adelphi, W.C.
1921
Several of these poems appeared in The Egoist;
others in The Dial, Others and Contact.
CONTENTS
| PEDANTIC LITERALIST | [ 5] |
| TO A STEAM ROLLER | [ 6] |
| DILIGENCE IS TO MAGIC AS PROGRESS IS TO FLIGHT | [ 6] |
| THOSE VARIOUS SCALPELS | [ 7] |
| FEED ME, ALSO, RIVER GOD, | [ 8] |
| TO WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS ON TAGORE | [ 8] |
| HE MADE THIS SCREEN | [ 9] |
| TALISMAN | [ 9] |
| BLACK EARTH | [10] |
| “HE WROTE THE HISTORY BOOK,” IT SAID | [12] |
| YOU ARE LIKE THE REALISTIC PRODUCT OF AN IDEALISTIC | |
| SEARCH FOR GOLD AT THE FOOT OF THE RAINBOW | [12] |
| REINFORCEMENTS | [13] |
| ROSES ONLY | [13] |
| IN THIS AGE OF HARD TRYING NONCHALANCE IS GOOD, AND | [14] |
| THE FISH | [14] |
| MY APISH COUSINS | [16] |
| WHEN I BUY PICTURES | [17] |
| PICKING AND CHOOSING | [18] |
| ENGLAND | [19] |
| DOCK RATS | [20] |
| RADICAL | [21] |
| POETRY | [22] |
| IN THE DAYS OF PRISMATIC COLOR | [23] |
| IS YOUR TOWN NINEVEH? | [24] |