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"So the 20th Century—so
whizzed the Limited—roared by and left
three men, still hungry on the tracks, ploddingly
watching the tail lights wizen and converge, slip-
ping gimleted and neatly out of sight." |
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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., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company.
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"Wheeled swiftly, wings emerge from larval-silver hangars.
Taut motors surge, space-gnawing, into flight;" |
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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., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company.
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"Under a world of whistles, wires and steam
Caboose-like they go ruminating through
Ohio, Indiana—blind baggage—
To Cheyenne tagging . . . Maybe Kalamazoo. See Vagagonds" |
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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., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company.
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"John, Jake or Charley, hopping the slow freight
—Memphis to Tallahassee—riding the rods,
Blind fists of nothing, humpty-dumpty clods." |
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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., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company.
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"O thou Dirigible, enormous Lounger
Of pendulous auroral beaches,—" |
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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., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company.
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"The phonographs of hades in the brain
Are tunnels that re-wind themselves, and love
A burnt match skating in a urinal—" |
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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., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company.
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"But the star-glistered salver of infinity,
The circle, blind crucible of endless space,
Is sluiced by motion,—subjugated never." |
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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., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company.
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"The River, spreading, flows—and spends your dream.
What are you, lost within this tideless spell?
You are your father's father, and the stream—
A liquid theme that floating niggers swell." |
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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., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company.
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"The train rounds, bending to a scream,
Taking the final level for the dive
Under the river—" |
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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., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company.
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"each prison crypt,
of canyoned traffic . . . Confronting the Exchange,
Surviving in a world of stocks,—" |
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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., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company.
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