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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

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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

PAGE
To Remy de Gourmont (Emanuel Morgan) vii
Preface (Anne Knish) ix

SPECTRA BY EMANUEL MORGAN
OPUS PAGE
1 Drums 53
2 Hope 14
6 If I Were Only Dafter 56
7 A Bunch of Grapes 8
9 Frogs' Legs on a Plate 57
13 A Peacock-Feather 11
14 I Had Put Out My Leaves 51
15 Despair Comes 6
16 The Guillotine 20
17 Needles and Pins 46
29 Knives 31
31 Thank God that We Can Laugh 27
40 Two Cocktails Round a Smile 35
41 Spectres 2
45 The Locust-Tree 49
46 No Other Angle 40
47 Giver of Bribes in the Brightness of Morning 37
55 The Impossible 43
62 Three Little Creatures 16
63 Spears 23
78 I Am Beset 63
79 Only Lovers 66
101 The Piano 61
104 Madagascar 59

SPECTRA BY ANNE KNISH
OPUS PAGE
1 The Seco