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Title: Precipitations

Author: Evelyn Scott

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

Language: English

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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
Fo