Poems by Delmore Schwartz
Apollo Musagete, Poetry, And The Leader Of The Muses
... Had he permitted Madame Sabatier to teach the poet a greater whiteness, ...
Faust In Old Age
... See in me the obscene, for you have love,For you have hatred, you, you must be judge, ...
The Sin Of Hamlet
... Trigger touched in the sharp declaration!And when it comes, escape is small ...
In The Naked Bed, In Plato's Cave
... So, so, O son of man, the ignorant night, the travail ...
Sonnet Suggested By Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Vakzy, James Joyce, Et Al.
... seeming angel or demon from above or from below ...
Tired And Unhappy, You Think Of Houses
... The servants bring in the coffee, the children go to bed, ...
The Greatest Thing In North America
... day And week after week the desires of the heart and mind ...
Archaic Bust Of Apollo
... Nor would it glisten like a stallion's hide,Brimming with radiance from every side ...
This Is A Poem I Wrote At Night, Before The Dawn
... soaring, After the festival here the small flowers gleamed like the ...
Poem (Remember midsummer: the fragrance of box)
... whistles, Are scattered like the long abandoned hopes and ambitions ...
From The Graveyard By The Sea
... e divine serenity, in luxurious contemplation!What pure toil of perfect lightning enwombs, consumes, ...
From: A King Of Kings, A King Among The Kings
... he is the veritable King of the King's English The English of the life of the city, ...
Poem (In the morning, when it was raining)
... The colorless curtains of the ceaseless spontaneous fall ...
He Knows All There Is To Know. Now He Is Acquainted With The Day And Night
... or singing from a great white boughAnd wherever America is, now as before, ...
Sonnet: O City, City
... And the self articulate, affectionate, and flowing, ...
