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Wallace Stevens
Poems and Select Prose Pieces
in the Public Domain

And their original
publication in periodicals

The Thessalians
Commencement speech at Reading Boy's High School

Autumn

Who Lies Dead

Quatrain
'He sought the music…' [Signed 'Henry Marshall']

Cy est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule,
et Les Unze Mille Vierges

Tea

Peter Quince at the Clavier

The Silver Plough-Boy

Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock

Sunday Morning
Of the eight sections written (and eventually appearing
in Stevens' Collected Poems) five select stanzas were
printed this time in Poetry in the order: I, VIII, IV. V, VII;
but numbered I-V. There is a single differenmce in line 15
of text if section V, as made by Harriet Monroe at Poetry.

Domination of Black

Tattoo

The Florest Wears Knee-Breeches

Song
"There are great things doing"

Six Significant Landscapes

Inscriptions for a Monument

Bowl

The Worms at Heaven's Gate

"Primordia"
In the Northwest
1. 'All over Minnesota'
2. 'The child's hair is the color of the hay'
3. 'The blunt ices flows down the Mississipi'
4. The houses gnaw the bark from the trees'
5. 'The birch trees draw up whiteness from the ground'
In the South
6. ''Unctious furrows'
7. 'The lilacs wither in the Carolinas'
8. 'The black mother of eleven children'
9. 'The trade winds jingles the rings in the nets…'

In Battle
Printed here as a separate poem, this is the 'Death's
nobility again' section of "Phases," which appeared in
Poetry, V, 2, Nov 1914 along with "Peter Quince at the
Clavier" and "Sunday Morning."

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

The Wind Shifts

Meditation

Gray Room

Valley-Candle