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Harmonium

Harmonium

by Wallace Stevens

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Author
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955
Original Publication
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.
Credits
Sean (@parchmentglow), Terry Jeffress, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
American poetry -- 20th century
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 78743
Release Date
May 24, 2026
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

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

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