Words for the Chisel (collection)

by Genevieve Taggard

For works with similar titles, see Words for the Chisel.

Words for the Chisel

Books by
Genevieve Taggard

 

Hawaiian Hilltop
For Eager Lovers

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May Days: an Anthology of Masses Liberator Verse. Edited by Genevieve Taggard

Genevieve Taggard

 

Words for the Chisel

 

 

New York
Alfred · A · Knopf
1926

Copyright, 1926, by Alfred A. Knopf

 

Manufactured in the United States of America

To
R. W.

These poems were first published in: The Century, The Dial, Books of the Herald Tribune, The Conning Tower of the New York World, The Literary Review of the New York Evening Post, The Measure, Phantasmus, The Nation, Poetry of Chicago, Voices.

Contents

Words for the Chisel		11
I	Poppy Juice
	Poppy Juice	15
II	Swarm
	Swarm	31
	Merely	32
	To One Loved Wholly Within Wisdom	33
	Two Captives	34
	Time Out	35
	Dissonance Then Silence	36
	Imminent Doom	37
	Memoir	38
	Galatea Again	39
	Final	40
	Picture	41
III	Moods of Women
	Doomsday Morning	45
	The Desert Remembers Her Reasons	46
	Tiger Moth	48
	Song for Unbound Hair	49
	Man in the Wind	50
	Mr. Happiness Takes a Train	51
	Autumn Episode	52
	Chanson	53
	Dead Grecians	54
	The Unfaithful	55
	Once	56
	Just Daylight	57
	Take the Summer	58
	Only the Frost	59
	Woodsman	60
	Mirror	61
	Runner	63
	Elegy in Dialogue	64
	To Almost Anyone	66
	Gipsy Confession	67
	Quarrel	68
	Truce	69
	Ballad of Typical Lovers	70
	Tale of the Wife and the Welder	71
	A Story	72
	Long Dialogue	73
	Fall of Dew	75
	Storm Centre	76
IV	Voice in the Cloud
	Threnody in Thin Air	79
	Green Parable	82
	Eruption in Utopia	84