Author	Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955
LoC No.	23013564
Title	Harmonium
Original Publication	New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.
Contents	Earthy anecdote -- Invective against swans -- In the Carolinas -- The paltry nude starts on a spring voyage -- The plot against the giant -- Infanta marina -- Domination of black -- The snow man -- The ordinary women -- The load of sugar-cane -- Le monocle de mon oncle -- Nuances of a theme by Williams -- Metaphors of a magnifico -- Ploughing on Sunday -- Cy est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et les Unze Mille Vierges -- Hibiscus on the sleeping shores -- Fabliau of Florida -- The doctor of Geneva -- Another weeping woman -- Homunculus et la belle etoile -- The comedian as the letter c -- From the misery of Don Joost -- O, Florida, venereal soil -- Last looks at the lilacs -- The worms at heaven's gate -- The jack-rabbit -- Valley candle -- Anecdote of men by the thousand -- The silver plough-boy -- The apostrophe to Vincentine -- Floral decorations for bananas -- Anecdote of canna -- Of the manner of addressing clouds -- Of heaven considered as a tomb -- Of the surface of things -- Anecdote of the prince of peacocks -- A high-toned old Christian woman -- The place of the solitaires -- The weeping burgher -- The curtains in the house of the metaphysician -- Banal sojourn -- Depression before spring -- The emperor of ice-cream -- The Cuban doctor -- Tea at the Palaz of Hoon -- Exposition of the contents of a cab -- Disillusionment of ten o'clock -- Sunday morning -- The virgin carrying a lantern -- Stars at Tallapoosa -- Explanation -- Six significant landscapes -- Bantams in pine-woods -- Anecdote of the jar -- Palace of the babies -- Frogs eat butterflies. Snakes eat frogs. Hogs eat snakes. Men eat hogs -- Jasmine's beautiful thoughts underneath the willow -- Cortège for Rosenbloom -- Tattoo -- The bird with the coppery, keen claws -- Life is motion -- Architecture -- The wind shifts -- Colloquy with a Polish aunt -- Gubbinal -- Figures in dense violet night -- Theory -- To the one of fictive music -- Hymn from a watermelon pavilion -- Peter Quince at the clavier -- Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird -- Nomad exquisite -- Tea -- To the roaring wind.
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Language	English
LoC Class	PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject	American poetry -- 20th century
Category	Text
eBook-No.	78743
Release Date	May 24, 2026
Copyright	Public domain in the USA.
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