Wallace Stevens's Poetry, by popularity

• The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad

  The time of year has grown indifferent.
  Mildew of summer and the deepening snow

  23 lines
• The Man On The Dump

  Day creeps down. The moon is creeping up.
  The sun is a corbeil of flowers the moon Blanche

  53 lines
• The Death of a Soldier

  Life contracts and death is expected,
  As in season of autumn.

  15 lines
• The Pure Good of Theory

  It is time that beats in the breast and it is time
  That batters against the mind, silent and proud,

  27 lines
• Le Monocle de Mon Oncle

  “Mother of heaven, regina of the clouds,
  O sceptre of the sun, crown of the moon,

  164 lines
• Contrary Theses (II)

  One chemical afternoon in mid-autumn,
  When the grand mechanics of earth and sky were near;

  27 lines
• Phases

  There’s a little square in Paris,
  Waiting until we pass.

  72 lines
• Disillusionment Of Ten O'Clock

  The houses are haunted
  By white night-gowns.

  14 lines
• Study Of Two Pears

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  Opusculum paedagogum.

  39 lines
• Hymn From A Watermelon Pavilion

  You dweller in the dark cabin,
  To whom the watermelon is always purple,

  27 lines
• A Postcard From The Volcano

  Children picking up our bones
  Will never know that these were once

  37 lines
• Farewell To Florida

  Go on, high ship, since now, upon the shore,
  The snake has left its skin upon the floor.

  49 lines
• It Must Give Pleasure

  To sing jubilas at exact, accustomed times,
  To be crested and wear the mane of a multitude

  33 lines
• A Rabbit As King Of The Ghosts

  The difficulty to think at the end of day,
  When the shapeless shadow covers the sun

  37 lines
• The River of Rivers in Connecticut

  There is a great river this side of Stygia
  Before one comes to the first black cataracts

  18 lines
• Two Figures in Dense Violet Light

  I had as lief be embraced by the portier of the hotel
  As to get no more from the moonlight

  18 lines, 1 comment
• To The One Of Fictive Music

  Sister and mother and diviner love,
  And of the sisterhood of the living dead

  37 lines
• The Plot Against the Giant

  First Girl
  When this yokel comes maundering,

  21 lines
• The Sense Of The Sleight-Of-Hand Man

  One's grand flights, one's Sunday baths,
  One's tootings at the weddings of the soul

  19 lines
• What is Divinity

  What is divinity if it can come
  Only in silent shadows and in dreams?

  13 lines
• The Well Dressed Man With A Beard

  After the final no there comes a yes
  And on that yes the future world depends.

  17 lines
• Nomad Exquisite

  As the immense dew of Florida
  Brings forth

  14 lines
• The Planet On The Table

  Ariel was glad he had written his poems.
  They were of a remembered time

  15 lines
• Valley Candle

  My candle burned alone in an immense valley.
  Beams of the huge night converged upon it,

  6 lines
• The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain

  There it was, word for word,
  The poem that took the place of a mountain.

  14 lines
• Frogs Eat Butterflies, Snakes Eat Frogs, Hogs Eat Snakes, Men Eat Hogs

  It is true that the rivers went nosing like swine,
  Tugging at banks, until they seemed

  19 lines
• Metaphors of a Magnifico

  Twenty men crossing a bridge,
  Into a village,

  23 lines
• Poem Written at Morning

  A sunny day's complete Poussiniana
  Divide it from itself. It is this or that

  17 lines
• In The Carolinas

  The lilacs wither in the Carolinas.
  Already the butterflies flutter above the cabins.

  10 lines
• Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly

  Among the more irritating minor ideas
  Of Mr. Homburg during his visits home

  45 lines

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