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''This fabulous shadow only the sea keeps.''
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Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. At Melville's Tomb (l. 16). . .
Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others,...
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''they are brown and soft,
And liable to melt as snow.''
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Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. My Grandmother's Love Letters (l. 10-11). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Rober...
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''There are no stars to-night
But those of memory.
Yet how much room for memory there is
In the loose girdle of soft rain.''
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Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. My Grandmother's Love Letters (l. 1-4). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert ...
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''His thoughts, delivered to me
From the white coverlet and pillow,
I see now, were inheritances—
Delicate riders of the storm.''
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Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. Praise for an Urn (l. 5-8). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds...
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''Scatter these well-meant idioms
Into the smoky spring that fills
The suburbs, where they will be lost.
They are no trophies of the sun.''
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Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. Praise for an Urn (l. 21-24). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, e...
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''I could never remember
That seething, steady leveling of the marshes
Till age had brought me to the sea.''
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Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. Repose of Rivers (l. 3-5). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford Unive...
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''There, beyond the dykes
I heard wind flaking sapphire, like this summer,
And willows could not hold more steady sound.''
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Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. Repose of Rivers (l. 21-23). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford Uni...
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''It grazes the horizons, launched above
Mortality—ascending emerald-bright,
A fountain at salute, a crown in view—''
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Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. Royal Palm (l. 12-14). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d...
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''The seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him,
Shedding white rings of tumult, building high
Over the chained bay waters Liberty—
Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyes''
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Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. The Bridge. . .
Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1...
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''subways, rivered under streets
and rivers . . . in the car
the overtone of motion
underground, the monotone
of motion is the sound
of other faces, also underground—''
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Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. The Bridge. . .
Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1...
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