Poet

Stephen Vincent Benet

1898–1943

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English

• 4. Return — 1917glossed
• 8:30 A. M. On 32Nd Street
• [59 B. C.]
• [Caesar. 49 B. C.]
• [Cicero. 48 B. C.]
• [Crassus In Parthia. B. C. 53]
• [Pompey. 48 B. C.]
• [Sertorius Speaks. B. C. 72]
• A Minor Poetglossed
• Abraham’S Bosom
• Alexander VI Dines With The Cardinal Of Capua
• Always The Sonnetteer
• Beauregard, eager sabreur, whose heart was…
• Before Michael’S Last Fight
• Blood Brothers
• Campus Sonnets: 1. Before An Examination
• Campus Sonnets: 2. Talk
• Campus Sonnets: 3. May Morning
• Campus Sonnets: 4. Return -- 1917
• Chanson At Madison Square
• Colloquy Of The Statues
• Colors - For D. M. C.
• Cosmopolitan/The Raveled Sleeve
• Dedication - To W. R. B.
• Devourer Of Nations
• Dinner In A Quick Lunch Room
• Elegy for an Enemy
• Epitaph To Be Spoken
• Expressions Near The End Of Winter
• Ghosts Of A Lunatic Asylum
• Going Back To School
• Grand Larceny
• Hymn In Columbus Circle
• I
• I. The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun
• Ii
• II.
• Iii
• Invocation
• Jack Ellyat heard the guns with…
• John Brown’s Body: Book I
• John Brown’s Body: Book III
• John Brown’s Body: Book IV
• John Brown’s Body: Book V
• John Brown’s Body: Book VI
• John Brown’s Body: Book VII
• John Brown’s Body: Book VIII
• Judith Henry, Judith Henry, they have…
• Judith Henry, Judith Henry, your body…
• Lonely Burial
• Lost Lights
• Love In Twilight
• Lunch At A City Club
• Lunch-Time Along Broadway
• Mortuary Parlors
• Music
• Nearsight
• Nightmare at Noon
• Nos Immortales
• November Prothalamion
• Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw
• Operation
• P. P. C.—Madam Life
• Poor Devil!
• Portrait Of A Baby
• Portrait Of A Boy
• Portrait Of Young Love
• Positively The Last Performance!
• Prelude: The Slaver
• Rain After A Vaudeville Show
• Resurrection
• Road And Hills
• Shippy, the little man with the…
• Talk
• The Breaking Point
• The City Revisited
• The Etcher
• The Fiddling Wood
• The First Vision Of Helen
• The General Public
• The Golden Bessie
• The Growing of the Hemp.
• The Hemp - A Virginia Legend.
• The Innovator
• The Knockout
• The Lover In Hell
• The Original Impulse
• The Planting of the Hemp.
• The Quality Of Courage
• The Retort Discourteous
• The Song Of Cold And Pain
• The Song.
• The stone falls in the pool…
• The Trapeze Performer
• The Using of the Hemp.
• The Walkers
• The White Peacock
• Three Days’ Ride
• Two At The Crossroads
• Two More Muses
• Winged Man
• Wisdom-Teeth
• Young Blood
• “Les Cruches Cassées”