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Poems by Eli Siegel

Here is a selection from Eli Siegel’s poetic work, which he began in the 1920s. Some poems are from his books Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems and Hail, American Development. Many were previously published in noted literary journals, and in The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known.

Poems to Begin With:

  • Character Sketch
  • The Dark That Was Is Here
  • Dear Birds, Tell This to Mothers
  • Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana
    • In Italiano: Pomeriggi Caldi Sono Stati nel Montana
    • En Français: Des Après-Midi Chaudes Ont Été Au Montana
  • Must I Wait All My Life; or, The Misery Song
  • Put Zebras by the Mississippi

All the Poems on This Site:

  • 2
  • 2 p.m.
  • A
  • A Day: The Continent Does Not Lie: The Election Goes On [1944]
  • A First in Music
  • A Girl and Things [1925]
  • A Lady, Sun and Rain
  • A Law
  • A Man Walks By
  • A Marriage
  • A Moose Moves
  • A Question
  • A Silent Hill
  • A Strong City Is Our God, By Martin Luther
  • A Trill Is Trembling Continuity
  • A Woeful Ballad on Faking Away
  • A World of Weeping Birds
  • About Fruits Somewhat
  • Aches for Valna’s Coming
  • Aesthetic Realism Couplets
  • Afternoon
  • Afternoon Cold
  • Alice Has Never Been in China
  • All for Herself; Shakey
  • Also
  • Ambition
  • Amiable Thoughts for Someone in a Hospital
  • Amoret, Body and Gown
  • An Instance of Dyspepsia
  • And It Does, Marianne
  • And Its Planks
  • And There Are New Smiles; New Smiles
  • And There Prevail
  • Anger and Musing
  • Anonymous Anthropology
  • Any Star and Shakey
  • Apathetic Landlord
  • Art Poétique, By Paul Verlaine
  • As I Look from Here
  • At Thermopylae, By Simonides of Ceos
  • Autumn Song, By Paul Verlaine
  • B
  • Baby in the Carriage
  • Ballade Concerning Our Mistake and Knowledge of It
  • Balzac and People Living Nonetheless
  • Basho Translations
  • Baskets: Their Due
  • Blackness Dashes Valuably
  • C
  • Candles and Forest
  • Carry Me Away, By Henri Michaux
  • Chapped Second Fingers
  • Character Sketch
  • Color and the Inconceivably Unknown
  • Come, Spring Flowers
  • Comforts
  • Contemporary History
  • Could Quote Horace, Likewise
  • Cow
  • D
  • Dear Birds, Tell This to Mothers
  • Death, Itself
  • Declaration of Freedom as to Print By Annabel Livingston, of Ohio
  • Delicately
  • Depression Song of a Girl
  • Des Après-Midi Chaudes Ont Été Au Montana
  • Diamonds Are Correct in This Very Matter
  • Dim Lamps
  • Disappointment
  • Discouraged People
  • Ditty Arising from a Perusal of Henry James’ Works
  • Doing Eye and Shoulder Things
  • Duval Is on the Run: The People Are on the March, By José Maria Quiroga Pla
  • E
  • Eagles Go with the Fine News to Many Places
  • Eating
  • 1874
  • Existence Is Worthy of Love
  • F
  • Face So As to Pale Stars
  • Failure and De Soto
  • Familiar Mad Heroine
  • Fare Thee Well
  • First Time
  • Forevermore
  • Free Poem on “The Siegel Theory of Opposites” in Relation to Aesthetics
  • Free Verse
  • G
  • Gertrude Broods Alone
  • Girl and Moon
  • Good Will
  • Grandeur Is in White
  • Grass Blade
  • H
  • Haikus: Some Instances
  • Happiness, By Arthur Rimbaud
  • Have the Lily
  • He Would Be So Hurt
  • Heaven and Being a Good Critic
  • Hell, What Is This About, Asked Again
  • Him and the World
  • Hinges
  • Historical Things and Our Next Motion
  • Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana
  • How Fine This All
  • Humanity
  • Hymn to Fourth Avenue
  • Hymn to Jazz and the Like
  • Hymn, By Charles Baudelaire
  • I
  • I Should Love to Be Loved, By Endre Ady
  • I Told You So
  • In
  • In Ancient Days
  • In November
  • In That Period of History
  • In White, Having Also Red
  • In a Painting
  • In the Best Sunlight Ever
  • In the Center of America, Years Ago
  • Intactus; or, Nothing Doing
  • Invitation and Hope
  • Is It Me, Darling, or Somebody Else, God Knows Who?—A Love Poem
  • It Is the Highest Prudence to Be Worthy of the Invitation Things as Rooms Give
  • It Will Be Annabel November
  • J
  • Janet Knows Hell
  • Japanese Humanitarian Poem
  • Just Literary
  • K
  • Kaddish
  • L
  • La Salle, As Having You in Mind
  • Ladies Ever, Ever, Ever Lightly Go Across Sweet, Green Swards
  • Leaves Go South a Little
  • Like a Clock, Like Anything
  • Lines on Eternity
  • List
  • Local Stop, Sheridan Square
  • Logic the Only Way to Assurance
  • Love Lurches Along
  • Love and Jobs
  • Love; or, When Good Will Wins
  • M
  • Making Nothing
  • Many Plains
  • Meadow and a Stem
  • Meant To Be
  • Mentioned Any Time
  • Millions of Tons in Chicago
  • Milwaukee Eagle
  • Miss Edith Lindsay and Form
  • Moments
  • More Lines on a Voice
  • Mourn This Sparrow, By Gaius Valerius Catullus
  • Must I Wait All My Life; or, The Misery Song
  • N
  • Naera Says “Coming” No Longer
  • Napoleon Was There; Cold, Cold Moscow
  • Nebraska Towns
  • Necessity and Choice Always Prevail
  • Neighboring You
  • New York Is Of, in More Than One Way
  • Night in 1242
  • No Reader Attending
  • Noise Is of All, The World
  • Not Ours
  • Notations, in Verse, on the Novelistic Manner of Henry James, 1843-1916
  • Nothing: A Study
  • Nothing’s at Fault, but Dust Is There
  • O
  • O Broken Dish
  • O, The and This
  • O, Wounded Birds
  • Observations in the Metre of Tamburlaine on the Norman Mailer Turbulence and Its Relations: with the Presence of Byron, Dostoievsky, Bodenheim, and Everyone
  • Occupied the Sky
  • Ocean, Mr., Mrs. Blink
  • Ode on the Death of a Racketeer
  • Of Her Who in Her Seeing Left Loved Things, Lovable Things, a Loved Thing, Lovable Thing, Lightly, More or Less Lightsomely
  • On 7th Avenue
  • On American Boys Dying in 1863, in Virginia, and Later Elsewhere
  • Once More Let’s Announce the Team of Leaves and Emotion
  • One Question
  • One of the Saddest Things in the World
  • Our Very Selves
  • P
  • Partly
  • Pillars, You Are Brand New, New, New
  • Poem of Love
  • Poems, Chiefly Scientific
  • Point
  • Pomeriggi Caldi Sono Stati nel Montana
  • Praise of the Inner Meaning of Geometrical Forms
  • Preferring Cellars
  • Prosody Is Ours
  • The Proud Turtle
  • Put Zebras by the Mississippi
  • Q
  • Question
  • Quiet
  • Quiet, Tears, Babies
  • R
  • Ralph Isham, 1753 and Later
  • Recurrent March
  • Recurs
  • Red and Yellow and Hills
  • Rehabilitation
  • Restrained Song about Sleet
  • Rhode Island Morning for Clarice
  • Roar-Roar as Relation
  • Roland and the Archbishop: From the Chanson de Roland
  • S
  • Sad Bobolink
  • Said One Golfer to Another
  • Said the Feather to the Air
  • Sameness and Difference in a Tragic Play
  • Sciences for Me
  • Season of Sowing: Evening, By Victor Hugo
  • Seem to Do Most
  • Sentiment Now
  • Shakespeare, Compactly
  • Slanting Soft White on Mountain Is Never Through
  • Smoke Goes Up Slowly
  • So Delia Walks the Air
  • Solipsism
  • Some Lines from Voltaire’s Poem on the Disaster at Lisbon, By François Marie Arouet de Voltaire
  • Something Done Well
  • Something Else Should Die: A Poem with Rhymes
  • Something to American History
  • Somewhere Along the Line
  • Somewhere This
  • Spark
  • Speech of Moon in the Heart of Ceylon
  • Speech to Continent on Its Value
  • Stars Exhorted, Revealed
  • Starting
  • Still the Dawn
  • Stuffy Town
  • Summer
  • Summer Again in New Jersey
  • Sunlight in Slush, in Puddles, and in Wet Municipal Surfaces; or, Miracle on Eighth Avenue below Fourteenth Street
  • T
  • Taker, This
  • Technique Is When
  • That Are
  • The Albatross, By Charles Baudelaire
  • The Breviary of Ontological Courtesy
  • The Cydnus, by José Maria de Heredia
  • The Dark That Was Is Here
  • The Edge of the Eighteenth Century
  • The Expiation: I; By Victor Hugo
  • The Fall of the Leaves, By Charles Hubert Millevoye
  • The Hellenic Landscape Was Glad
  • The Idea of Beauty Is Adored in This World, By Joachim du Bellay
  • The Laurels Are Cut Down, By Théodore de Banville
  • The Little Cube in Space
  • The Lord Has Stolen Her Whims
  • The Meeting Place It Can Be All the Time
  • The Mighty Act Something Put On
  • The Milkmaid and the Pot of Milk, By Jean de La Fontaine
  • The Missouri
  • The Oak and the Reed, By Jean de La Fontaine
  • The Pacific Ocean in 1600
  • The Poem of Catullus about Attis
  • The Praise Will Not Be Taken Back
  • The Print and the Siegel Theory of Opposites
  • The Self, Beating
  • The Shame We Have
  • The Situation
  • The Smell of Fried Potatoes
  • The Song of the Potter: Ceylon Folk Poem
  • The Spider at 6:30
  • The Stars That Summer
  • The Unbrought Me: Henry James Dearly Suffuses
  • The Unknown Should Be Good
  • The Uprising of the Flowers; or, It Had to Win
  • The Voice, By Henri de Régnier
  • The Voyage, VIII; By Charles Baudelaire
  • The Waiting Maine Man, Dead at Little Round Top, Near Gettysburg, July 1863
  • The Waving of the Grain
  • The Whale
  • The Wolf and the Lamb, By Jean de La Fontaine
  • The World Says, I’m Your Valentine, My Dear
  • Their Birds’ World Was Shaken
  • There Has Been Sewing
  • These Are Five Haikus
  • They Look at Us
  • They Paraded
  • They Resist
  • This Is History
  • This Is Your Cup of Tea
  • This Seen Now
  • This Summer Morning Mariana Has
  • This to Delia
  • Those Who Wait
  • Thought Is There
  • Thoughts in 1960 on the Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Three Poems about Novels
  • Thrills, Life and Reading
  • To Dylan Thomas
  • To Homes
  • To the Reader, Charles Baudelaire
  • Towards Homer: Free Verse, Beginning with the First Lines of Pope’s Translation of the Odyssey
  • Trees in Rain
  • Twenty-one Distichs about Children
  • Two Children's Poems
  • Two Stanzas from French Literature about Death: In Stances à Du Perrier By François de Malherbe
  • Two Statements
  • U
  • Understanding Does Not Like It
  • W
  • Walk, Girl, in London
  • We Lag
  • We’ll Begin Again as Often as Need Be, Any Time
  • What Food Deserves: A Canticle
  • What Is Newer Than an Ancient Daisy?
  • What Now Coheres—Of 1861-1865?
  • What We Want to Hear from Ourselves
  • When You Meet Someone
  • Whence? and Hence; and Whence?— or, The Universe Can Mock Us, Too
  • World, Wind, Leaves Talked To
  • Worms Go South and They Fit In
  • Y
  • You Can’t Miss the Absolute
  • Your Hope Is What I Am
  • Z
  • Zeb Duryea

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