Front matter
Reading edition
Produced by Catherine Daly
Evelyn Scott
PRECIPITATIONS
1920
The author acknowledges the courtesy of the editors of THE POETRY JOURNAL; OTHERS; THE EGOIST (London); POETRY: A MAGAZINE OF VERSE; PLAYBOY; THE DIAL; THE LIBERATOR; OTHERS: An ANTHOLOGY OF THE NEW VERSE; THE NATION (New York); and THE LYRIC, from all of which poems in this volume have been reprinted.
Contents
Manhattan
The Unpeopled City
Midnight Worship: Brooklyn Bridge Ascension: Autumn Dusk in Central Park Startled Forest: Hudson River Winter Streets February Springtime The Assumption of Columbine From Brooklyn Snow Dance Potter's Field Lights at Night Midnight
Crowds
Summer Night New York Sunset: Battery Park Crowds Riots The City at Night
Vanities
Bread Poems
Lullaby Embarkation of Cythera Christian Luxuries Narrow Flowers Eyes After Youth The Shadow that Walks Alone Bible Truth The Maternal Breast Air for G String Destiny
The Red Cross
Hectic I-II Isolation Ward The Red Cross Hospital Night
Domestic Canticle
Spring Song Home Again To a Sick Child Love Song Quarrel My Child The Tunnel I-V
Bruised Sunlight
Water Moods
Rain on the Seashore Ship Masts Monochrome Antique Echo Looks at Herself Spell
Hungry Seasons
Rainy Twilight The Storm Nymphs Winter Dawn
The Wall of Night
Springtime Too Soon Stars Night Music Nocturne of Water The Long Moment Designs I-IV Argo Japanese Moon The Naiad Floodtide Mountain Pass in August
Contemporaries
Harmonics
Young Men Young Girls House Spirits At the Meeting House Christians Devil's Cradle Women Penelope Poor People's Dreams For Wives and Mistresses
Portraits
Portrait of Rich Old Lady Nigger The Maiden Mother A Pious Woman A Very Old Rose Jar The Nixie Old Ladies' Valhalla Portraits of Poets I-III Theodore Dreiser Pieta
Brazil Through A Mist
The Ranch
Tropical Life Twenty-four Hours Rainy Season Mail on the Ranch The Vampire Bat Conservatism Little Pigs The Silly Ewe The Snake The Years Burning Mountains I-III Tropical Winter Talk on the Ranch
Les Malades des Pays Chauds
Pride of Race Don Quixote Sojourns in Rio de Janeiro Convent Musings Guitarra November
The Coming of Christ
The Death of Columbine
Duet From a Man Dying on a Cross Lagniappe Hail Mary! The Death of Columbine Pierrot Laughs The Transmigration of Caliban Gundry Viennese Waltz
Resurrection
Immortality Autumn Night Venus' Fly Trap Suicide Leaves I-IV Allegro