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    Spectra A Book of Poetic Experiments
    Spectra A Book of Poetic Experiments
    Spectra A Book of Poetic Experiments
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    Spectra A Book of Poetic Experiments

    By Witter Bynner and Arthur Davison Ficke

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Spectra A Book of Poetic Experiments - Witter Bynner

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Spectra, by Arthur Ficke and Witter Bynner

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      Title: Spectra

      A Book of Poetic Experiments

      Author: Arthur Ficke

      Witter Bynner

      Release Date: October 14, 2008 [EBook #26918]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SPECTRA ***

      Produced by Ruth Hart

      SPECTRA

      A BOOK OF POETIC EXPERIMENTS

      BY

      ANNE KNISH

      AND

      EMANUEL MORGAN

      NEW YORK

      MITCHELL KENNERLEY

      1916

      COPYRIGHT 1916 BY

      MITCHELL KENNERLEY

      PRINTED IN AMERICA

      CONTENTS

      TO REMY DE GOURMONT

           POET, a wreath!—

      No matter how we had combined our flowers,

      You would have worn them—being ours. . . .

      On you, on them, the showers—

           O roots beneath!

                EMANUEL MORGAN.

      PREFACE

      THIS volume is the

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