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Author MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982.

Title Collected poems, 1917-1952.

Publication Info. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1952.

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 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  821 MAC    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  811 MACLEISH    Check Shelf
Description viii, 407 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Baccalaureate -- Two poems from the war -- from The happy marriage -- The silent slain -- Lines for a prologue -- L'an trentiesme de mon eage -- Le secret humain -- 1892-19- -- Interrogate the stones -- Yacht for sale -- Immortal helix -- Verses for a centennial -- Mother Goose's garland -- March -- Mistral over the graves -- Corporate entity -- The end of the world -- The farm -- Eleven -- Way-station -- Chartres -- Signature for tempo -- Nocturne -- Selene afterwards -- No lamp has ever shown us where to look -- "Le seul malheur est que je ne ais pas lire" -- Ancestral -- Grazing locomotives -- Some aspects of immortality -- Voyage en Provence -- Memorial rain -- Man! -- Hearts' and flowers' -- Against illuminations -- Ars poetica -- Sketch for a portrait of Mme. G -- M -- Cinema of a man -- Memory green -- "Not marble nor the gilded monuments" -- Return -- You, Andrew Marvell -- Salute -- Immortal autumn -- Tourist death -- Land's end.
Reproach to dead poets -- Men -- Epistle to be left in the earth -- American letter -- -- and Forty-Second Street -- Landscape as a nude -- Wildwest -- Burying ground by the ties -- Oil painting of the artist as the artist -- Empire builders -- Background with revolutionaries -- Pony Rock -- Cook County -- Aeterna poetae memoria -- Men of my century loved Mozart -- Critical observations -- Sentiments for a dedication -- The revenant -- De votre bonheur il ne reste que vos photos -- Lines for an internment -- Seafarer -- Voyage -- The night dream -- Unfinished history -- Before March -- Broken promise -- Epistle to L?eon-Paul Fargue -- Invocation to the social muse -- Nat Bacon's bones -- Gal?an -- Pole star -- Speech to those who say comrade -- Speech to the detractors -- Speech to a crowd -- The lost speakers -- Poem for the time of change -- The German girls! The German girls! -- "Dover Beach" -- A note to that poem -- The sunset piece -- Words to be spoken.
(Cont.) The woman on the stair -- Geography of this time -- Definition of the frontiers -- Voyage west -- Journey home -- The rape of the swan -- Psyche with the candle -- The linden trees -- Excavation of Troy -- The cat in the wood -- Winter is another country -- What must -- Poem in prose -- Ever since -- Tricked by eternity the heart -- Years of the dog -- The learned men -- The treason crime -- The two trees -- The snow fall -- The Spanish lie -- The young dead soldiers -- Brave new world -- Words in time -- Bahamas -- Out of sleep awakened -- Epitaph for John McCutcheon -- Calypso's Island -- Thunderhead -- What any lover learns -- The steamboat whistle -- Starved lovers -- The old man to the lizard -- The triumph of the shell -- They come no more, those words, those finches -- You also, Gaius Valerius Catullus -- The old men in the leaf smoke -- The linden branch -- Autumn -- Where the hayfields were -- The rock in the sea -- The burial -- The bed.
(Cont) A man's work -- What riddle asked the Sphinx -- Music and drum -- What the old women say -- The two priests -- "Common man" -- The black day -- The ballad of the corn-cob and the lie -- The danger in the air -- The huntsmen are up in America -- Acknowledgement -- Liberty -- The sheep in the ruins -- Ezry -- The renovated temple -- Poet's laughter -- The snowflake which is now and hence forever -- Crossing -- The dichter as dokter -- The reef fisher -- Hypocrite Auteur -- The pot of earth -- The hamlet of A. MacLeish -- Einstein -- Conquistador -- Elpenor -- America was promises -- Colloquy for the states -- Actfive -- The Trojan horse.
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Subject Murdock, Kenneth Ballard, 1895-1975 -- Library.
Murdock, Kenneth Ballard, 1895-1975. (OCoLC)fst00069911
American poetry -- 20th century.
Poetry, Modern -- 20th century.
Poetry, Modern. (OCoLC)fst01067769
American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
Libraries. (OCoLC)fst00997341
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
Poetry.
Added Title Poems
Other Form: Online version: MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982. Collected poems 1917-1952. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1952 (OCoLC)568349208
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