Poems by Delmore Schwartz
Sonnet: The Ghosts Of James And Peirce In Harvard Yard
... Prall The ghosts of James and Peirce in Harvard Yard ...
News Of The Gold World Of May
... its vine, verve and valentine curves upon the city streets, the public grounds ...
Saint, Revolutionist
... Long actuality.What is this that is ...
Someone Is Harshly Coughing As Before
... He has come as a young man to be hanged once more!Another exile bare his complex care, ...
The True-Blue American
... Refusing to accept alternatives, refusing to believe the choice of between ...
In the Naked Bed, in Plato’s Cave
... The bird called tentatively, whistled, called,  ...
At a Solemn Musick
... s victory, Ascending and descending the heights of assent, climbing and chanting triumphantly: ...
Darkling Summer, Ominous Dusk, Rumorous Rain
... 2 Again, after a catbird squeaked in the special silence, ...
In the Green Morning, Now, Once More
... Of fragrance and of freshness, of birth and beginning ...
The Foggy, Foggy Blue
... The only only thing is to believe in everything: ...
Narcissus
... Simple and certain, known through the truth of touch, another form and fountain of falsehood&rsquo ...
Now He Knows All There Is To Know. Now He Is Acquainted With The Day And Night
... The first day and night of death must be!" ...
Swift
... The pride of power, the pride and pleasure of place and power are Towers ...
Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day
... No more? From Nineteen-Fourteen to the present day,  ...
Baudelaire
... Amid the click of billiard balls, the clatter of dishes,  ...