Research Catalog

Title

Swear by the night and other poems / Nathalia Crane ; with an introduction by Louis Untermeyer.

Author

Crane, Nathalia, 1913-1998

Publication

• New York : Random House, [1936]
• Mount Vernon : Walpole Printing Office
• ©1936

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Details

Additional Authors

• Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977
• Random House (Firm), publisher.
• Walpole Printing Office, printer.

Description

59 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• 1900-1999
• American poetry > 20th century
• American poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Poetry.
• Poésie.

Note

• At head of title: Nathalia Crane.

Contents

Foreword -- Swear by the night -- Lean not upon the azure -- Rummage the house in vain -- Ballad of Johnny O'Brien -- The dead bee -- Imperfection -- The bonnet of a fool -- Captive in the taper -- The ghost from Seaweed Town visits the fleet in the Hudson -- The strikers -- The muse betrayed -- The pastures green -- Northampton -- The spice mortar -- Conversation of the bees -- The doves -- Plant the sky -- Aphrodite in court -- Truth -- Plato's Republic -- The wise men -- The sun-dial -- The salt -- The apprentice -- Faun's rest -- Could I live again -- The playthings -- Armistice day -- The post-office door -- The braggarts -- Martyrs new -- Swinburne -- From the rose that never grew -- Daughters of Crusoe -- The quest of Don Sebastian -- The garden of Lindaraja.

LCCN

36003117

OCLC

• ocm00749332
• 749332
• SCSB-969964

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library