Poems by Wallace Stevens
Anecdote Of The Jar
... And sprawled around, no longer wild ...
The Emperor Of Ice-Cream
... The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream ...
Disillusionment Of Ten O'clock
... Only, here and there, an old sailor, ...
Domination Of Black
... I felt afraid. And I remembered the cry of the peacocks ...
Final Soliloquy Of The Interior Paramour
... Out of all the indifferences, into one thing:Within a single thing, a single shawl ...
The Snow Man
... In the sound of a few leaves, Which is the sound of the land ...
The Idea Of Order At Key West
... The lights in the fishing boats at anchor there, ...
Valley Candle
... Beams of the huge night converged upon it, ...
A Rabbit As King Of The Ghosts
... And nothing is left except light on your furThere was the cat slopping its milk all day, ...
Of Modern Poetry
... It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place ...
The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain
... cover, at last, the view toward which they had edged,Where he could lie and, gazing down at the sea, ...
Metaphors Of A Magnifico
... Or one man Crossing a single bridge into a village ...
Looking Across The Fields And Watching The Birds Fly
... To Concord, at the edge of things, was this:To think away the grass, the trees, the clouds, ...
The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm
... The scholar to whom his book is true, to whomThe summer night is like a perfection of thought ...
Tattoo
... Are fastened To the flesh and bones of you ...
