An edition of Selected works of Stephen Vincent Bene t.
(1942)
Selected works of Stephen Vincent Bene t.
by Stephen Vincent Bene t
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v. 1. Poetry:
John Brown's body.
Young adventure:
Portrait of a boy ;
Portrait of a baby ;
Portrait of young love ;
The general public ;
Young blood ;
The breaking point ;
Poor devil! ;
The golden corpse.
My fair lady:
To Rosemary ;
Chemical analysis ;
Nomenclature ;
Difference ; A sad song ;
A nonsense song ;
To Rosemary, on the methods by which she might become an angel ;
Evening and morning ;
In a glass of water before retiring ;
Legend ;
Dulce ridentem ;
All night long ;
Days pass--men pass ;
Illa ;
Hands ;
Memory.
Ballads and tales:
American names ;
The ballad of William Sycamore ;
The hemp ;
The mountain whippoorwill ;
King David ;
The retort discourteous ;
Three days' ride ;
Alexander the Sixth dines with the Cardinal of Capua ;
Southern ships and settlers ;
Cotton Mather ;
Captain Kidd ;
French pioneers ;
Thomas Jefferson ;
John James Audubon ;
Daniel Boone ;
Western wagons.
Creatures of Earth:
The innovator ;
Snowfall ;
Bad dream ;
For all blasphemers ;
Architects ;
Dinner in a quick lunch room ;
Operation ;
The trapeze performer ;
Judgment ;
Ghosts of a lunatic asylum ;
For those who are as right as any ;
Girl child ;
Old man Hoppergrass ;
The lost wife ;
Sparrow ;
Thanks ;
Complaint of Body, the Ass, against his Rider, the Soul.
Nightmares and visitants:
Notes to be left in a cornerstone ;
Short ode ;
Litany for dictatorships ;
Ode to the Austrian Socialists ;
Do you remember, Springfield? ;
Ode to Walt Whitman ;
Metropolitan nightmare ;
Nightmare, with angels ;
Nightmare number three ;
1936 ;
For city spring ;
For city lovers ;
Nightmare for future reference ;
Minor litany ;
Nightmare at noon.
Listen to the people -- -- v. 2. Prose:
Stories of American history:
Jacob and the Indians ;
A tooth for Paul Revere ;
The Devil and Daniel Webster ;
Freedom's a hard-bought thing ;
O'Halloran's luck ;
The die-hard ;
Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer.
Spanish bayonet.
Tales of our time:
Too early spring ;
The story about the anteater ;
Schooner Fairchild's class ;
Everybody was very nice ;
All around the town ;
Glamour ;
No visitors ;
A death in the country.
Fantasies and prophecies:
The curfew tolls ;
The king of the cats ;
Doc Mellhorn and the Pearly Gates ;
The last of the legions ;
The blood of the martyrs ;
Into Egypt ;
By the waters of Babylon.
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