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Harmonium

Wallace Stevens

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Table of contents

1. Front matter 2. Earthy Anecdote 3. Invective against Swans 4. In the Carolinas 5. The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage 6. The Plot against the Giant 7. Infanta Marina 8. Domination of Black 9. The Snow Man 10. The Ordinary Women 11. The Load of Sugar-Cane 12. Le Monocle de Mon Oncle 13. Nuances of a Theme by Williams 14. Metaphors of a Magnifico 15. Ploughing on Sunday 16. Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges 17. Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores 18. Fabliau of Florida 19. The Doctor of Geneva 20. Another Weeping Woman 21. Homunculus et la Belle Etoile 22. I The World without Imagination 23. II Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatan 24. III Approaching Carolina 25. IV The Idea of a Colony 26. V A Nice Shady Home 27. VI And Daughters with Curls 28. From the Misery of Don Joost 29. O, Florida, Venereal Soil 30. Last Looks at the Lilacs 31. The Worms at Heaven’s Gate 32. The Jack-Rabbit 33. Valley Candle 34. Anecdote of Men by the Thousand 35. The Silver Plough-Boy 36. The Apostrophe to Vincentine 37. Floral Decorations for Bananas 38. Anecdote of Canna 39. Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds 40. Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb 41. Of the Surface of Things 42. Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks 43. A High-Toned Old Christian Woman 44. The Place of the Solitaires 45. The Weeping Burgher 46. The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician 47. Banal Sojourn 48. Depression before Spring 49. The Emperor of Ice-Cream 50. The Cuban Doctor 51. Tea at the Palaz of Hoon 52. Exposition of the Contents of a Cab 53. Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock 54. Sunday Morning 55. The Virgin Carrying a Lantern 56. Stars at Tallapoosa 57. Explanation 58. Six Significant Landscapes 59. Bantams in Pine-Woods 60. Anecdote of the Jar 61. Palace of the Babies 62. Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs 63. Jasmine’s Beautiful Thoughts Underneath the Willow 64. Cortège for Rosenbloom 65. Tattoo 66. The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws 67. Life Is Motion 68. Architecture 69. The Wind Shifts 70. Colloquy with a Polish Aunt 71. Gubbinal 72. Two Figures in Dense Violet Night 73. Theory 74. To the One of Fictive Music 75. Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion 76. Peter Quince at the Clavier 77. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 78. Nomad Exquisite 79. Tea 80. To the Roaring Wind

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