Last and Lost Poems

by Schwartz, Delmore

• ISBN13: 9780811210966
• ISBN10: 0811210960
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-06-17
• Publisher: New Directions

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Original Edition (1979)	xi
Preface to the Paperbook Edition (1989)	xxv
Darkness Before Delight	1	(34)
This is a Poem I Wrote at Night, Before the Dawn	3	(1)
America, America!	4	(1)
All Night, All Night	5	(2)
Two Lyrics from Kilroy's Carnival, A Masque Aria	7	(2)
Song	7	(2)
Phoenix Lyrics	9	(2)
Poem; In the morning, when it was raining	11	(1)
Poem; Remember midsummer: the fragrance of box	12	(2)
The First Night of Fall and Falling Rain	14	(1)
Words for a Trumpet Chorale Celebrating the Autumn	15	(1)
The Choir and Music of Solitude and Silence	16	(2)
News of the Gold World of May	18	(1)
Occasional Poems	19	(2)
The Greatest Thing in North America	21	(1)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	22	(1)
Love and Marilyn Monroe	23	(2)
At This Moment of Time	25	(1)
Poem: You, my photographer, you, most aware	26	(1)
Poem: Old man in the crystal morning after snow	27	(1)
Spiders	28	(2)
To Helen (after Valery)	30	(1)
From The Graveyard by The Sea (after Valery)	31	(1)
The Spring (after Rilke)	32	(1)
Late Autumn in Venice (after Rilke)	33	(1)
Archaic Bust of Apollo (after Rilke)	34	(1)
What a Poem Knows	35	(22)
The Journey of a Poem Compared to All the Sad Variety of Travel	37	(1)
Philology Recapitulates Ontology, Poetry Is Ontology	38	(1)
Poem: Faithful to your commands, o consciousness	39	(1)
What Curious Dresses All Men Wear	40	(1)
Sonnet Suggested	41	(1)
Homer
Chaucer
Shakespeare
Edgar Allan Poe
Paul Valery
James Joyce
Sonnet on Famous and Familiar Sonnets and Experiences	42	(1)
Yeats Died Saturday in France	43	(1)
From: A King of Kings, A King among the Kings	44	(2)
Now He Knows All There Is to Know; Now He Is Acquainted with the Night	46	(1)
A Dream of Whitman Paraphrased, Recognized and Made More Vivid by Renoir	47	(2)
Albert Einstein to Archibald MacLeish	49	(1)
The Poet	50	(2)
Apollo Musagete, Poetry, and the Leader of the Muses	52	(5)
The Studies of Narcissus	57	(26)
Kilroy's Carnival: A Poetic Prologue for TV	83	(20)
Previously Uncollected Poems	103	(2)
Poem for Johann Sebastian Bach	105	(1)
Poem for Jacques Maritain and Leon Trotzky	106	(1)
The Maxims of Sisyphus	107	(1)
How Can He Possess	108	(1)
Sonnet	109	(1)
The Power and Glory of Language	110	(2)
The Sequel, the Conclusion, the Endlessness	112	(1)
Poem: How Marvelous Man's Kind Is	113	(1)
When I Remember the Advent	114	(1)
The Famous Resort in Late Autumn	115	(2)
He Who Excuses Himself Also Accuses Himself	117	(1)
To a Fugitive	118	(1)
Poem	119	(1)
Praise Is Traditional and Appropriate	120	(1)
The Dances and the Dancers	121	(1)
Genesis: Selections from Book II	122