Marianne Moore Poems (24 Poems)

An Octopus (Marianne Moore Poems)

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 ...

His Shield (Marianne Moore Poems)

The pin-swin or spine-swine(the edgehog miscalled hedgehog) with all his edges out,  echidna and echinoderm in distressed-pin-cushion thorn-fur coats, the spiny ...

The Fish (Marianne Moore Poems)

wade through black jade. Of the crow-blue mussel-shells, one keeps adjusting the ash-heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured ...

Poetry (Marianne Moore Poems)

I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect ...

Silence (Marianne Moore Poems)

My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow's grave nor the glass ...

The Pangolin (Marianne Moore Poems)

Another armored animal--scale lapping scale with spruce-cone regularity until they form the uninterrupted central tail-row! This near artichoke with head ...

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