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    Precipitations
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    Precipitations

    By Evelyn Scott

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Precipitations - Evelyn Scott

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Precipitations, by Evelyn Scott

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Precipitations

      Author: Evelyn Scott

      Posting Date: August 18, 2009 [EBook #4530] Release Date: October, 2003 First Posted: February 2, 2002

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PRECIPITATIONS ***

      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

      MANHATTAN

      THE UNPEOPLED CITY

      MIDNIGHT WORSHIP: BROOKLYN BRIDGE

        In the rain

        Rows of street lamps are saints in bright garments

        That flow long with the bend of knees.

        They lift pale heads nimbussed with golden spikes.

        Up the lanes of liquid onyx

        Toward the high fire-laden altars

        Move the saints of Manhattan

        In endless pilgrimage to death,

        Amidst the asphodel and anemones of dawn.

      ASCENSION: AUTUMN DUSK IN CENTRAL PARK

        Featureless people glide with dim motion through a quivering

             blue

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