Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924 Book

	Acknowledgments
	Editor's Note: How to Use This Edition
	Abbreviations and Textual Practices
	Introduction	1
	Moore's Early Volumes: From Poems (1921) to Observations (1924)	18
	Front Material	41
	To an Intra-Mural Rat	51
	Reticence and Volubility	52
	To a Chameleon	53
	A Talisman	54
	To a Prize Bird	55
	Injudicious Gardening	56
	Fear Is Hope	57
	To a Strategist	58
	Is Your Town Nineveh?	59
	A Fool, a Foul Thing, a Distressful Lunatic	60
	To Military Progress	61
	An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish	62
	To a Steam Roller	63
	Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight	64
	To a Snail	65
	"The Bricks Are Fallen Down, We Will Build with Hewn Stones. The Sycamores Are Cut Down, We Will Change to Cedars."	66
	George Moore	67
	"Nothing Will Cure the Sick Lion but to Eat an Ape"	68
	To the Peacock of France	69
	In This Age of Hard Trying, Nonchalance Is Good And	70
	To Statecraft Embalmed	71
	Poetry	72
	The Past Is the Present	74
	Pedantic Literalist	75
	"He Wrote the History Book"	76
	Critics and Connoisseurs	77
	To Be Liked by You Would Be a Calamity	79
	Like a Bulrush	80
	Sojourn in the Whale	81
	My Apish Cousins	82
	Roses Only	83
	Reinforcements	84
	The Fish	85
	Black Earth	87
	Radical	90
	In the Days of Prismatic Color	91
	Peter	93
	Dock Rats	95
	Picking and Choosing	97
	England	99
	When I Buy Pictures	101
	A Grave	102
	Those Various Scalpels	103
	The Labors of Hercules	105
	New York	107
	People's Surroundings	108
	Snakes, Mongooses, Snake-Charmers, and the Like	111
	Bowls	112
	Novices	113
	Marriage	115
	Silence	124
	An Octopus	125
	Sea Unicorns and Land Unicorns	133
	Moore's Notes	137
	Moore's Index	153
	To an Intra-Mural Rat	165
	The Wizard in Words	167
	You Are Like the Realistic Product of an Idealist Search for Gold at the Foot of the Rainbow	169
	A Talisman	171
	to Browning	174
	To Bernard Shaw: A Prize Bird	174
	"Sun!"	177
	To Disraeli on Conservatism	181
	Is Your Town Nineveh?	183
	Masks	186
	To the Soul of "Progress"	188
	To a Steam Roller	190
	Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight	190
	George Moore	193
	French Peacock	196
	In This Age of Hard Trying Nonchalance Is Good, And	198
	To Statecraft Embalmed	203
	Poetry	205
	So far as the future is concerned, "Shall not one say, with the Russian philosopher, 'How is one to know what one doesn't know?'" So far as the present is concerned	208
	Pedantic Literalist	211
	"He Wrote the History Book," It Said	213
	Critics and Connoisseurs	215
	To Be Liked by You Would Be a Calamity	218
	Like a Bulrush	221
	Sojourn in the Whale	223
	My Apish Cousins	225
	Roses Only	228
	Reinforcements	232
	The Fish	234
	Black Earth	237
	Radical	240
	In the Days of Prismatic Colour	242
	Dock Rats	245
	Picking and Choosing	249
	England	250
	When I Buy Pictures	255
	A Graveyard	258
	Those Various Scalpels	261
	The Labours of Hercules	265
	New York	267
	People's Surroundings	269
	Snakes, Mongooses, Snake-Charmers and the Like	274
	Bowls	276
	Novices	278
	Marriage	284
	Silence	309
	An Octopus	312
	Sea Unicorns and Land Unicorns	321
	Under a Patched Sail	331
	To Come after a Sonnet	332
	To My Cup-Bearer	333
	The Sentimentalist	334
	To a Screen-Maker	335
	Ennui	339
	A Red Flower	341
	A Jelly-Fish	342
	Progress	343
	My Lantern	344
	Tunica Pallio Proprior	345
	My Senses Do Not Deceive Me	346
	Qui S'Excuse, S'Accuse	346
	Leaves of a Magazine	347
	The Beast of Burden	348
	Councell to a Bachelor	349
	Things Are What They Seem	351
	To a Man Working His Way through the Crowd	352
	That Harp You Play So Well	353
	Appellate Jurisdiction	355
	To William Butler Yeats on Tagore	357
	The North Wind to a Dutiful Beast Midway between the Dial and the Foot of a Garden Clock	359
	Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel	360
	To a Friend in the Making	361
	Blake	361
	Diogenes	363
	You Are Fire Eaters	365
	Feed Me, Also, River God	367
	Holes Bored in a Workbag by the Scissors	370
	Apropos of Mice	370
	The Just Man And	371
	In "Designing a Cloak to Cloak His Designs," You Wrested from Oblivion, a Coat of Immortality for Your Own Use	371
	The Past Is the Present	372
	An Ardent Platonist	375
	You Say You Said	376
	Broom	381
	Bruno's Weekly	390
	The Chimaera	400
	Contact	406
	Contemporary Verse	417
	The Dial	422
	The Egoist	438
	The Little Review	450
	Manikin	455
	Others	466
	Poetry	479
	Secession	485
	Chronological List: First Presentations of Moore's Poems between 1907 and 1927, with Corresponding Page Numbers to this Edition	495
	Acknowledgments of Permissions	499
	Alphabetical Index to All Poems in This Edition	501