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Phoenix Lyrics

by Delmore Schwartz

I

If nature is life, nature is death:
It is winter as it is spring:
Confusion is variety, variety
And confusion in everything
Make experience the true conclusion
Of all desire and opulence,
All satisfaction and poverty.

II

When a hundred years had passed nature seemed to man
a clock
Another century sank away and nature seemed a jungle
in a rock
And now that nature has become a ticking and hidden
bomb how we must mock
Newton, Democritus, the Deity
The heart's ingenuity and the mind's infinite
uncontrollable
insatiable curiosity.

III

Purple black cloud at sunset: it is late August
and the light begins to look cold, and as we look,
listen and look, we hear the first drums of autumn.


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  Translations for this Poem
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  Poems by Delmore Schwartz
  1. Albert Einstein To Archibald Macl
  2. All Night All Night
  3. America America
  4. Apollo Musagete Poetry And The Le
  5. Archaic Bust Of Apollo
  6. At This Moment Of Time
  7. A Dream Of Whitman Paraphrased Re
  8. A Young Child And His Pregnant Mo
  9. By Circumstances Fed
  10. Calmly We Walk Through This April
  11. Cambridge Spring 1937
  12. Concerning The Synthetic Unity Of
  13. Far Rockaway
  14. Faust In Old Age
  15. For The One Who Would Not Take Hi
  16. For The One Who Would Take Mans L
  17. From A King Of Kings A King Among
  18. From The Graveyard By The Sea
  19. In The Naked Bed In Platos Cave
  20. In The Slight Ripple The Mind Per
  21. Late Autumn In Venice
  22. Love And Marilyn Monroe
  23. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  24. News Of The Gold World Of May
  25. Now He Knows All There Is To Know
  26. Occasional Poems
  27. Out Of The Watercolored Window Wh
  28. O Love Sweet Animal
  29. Parlez-Vous Francais
  30. Philology Recapitulates Ontology
  31. Phoenix Lyrics
  32. Poem Faithful to your commands o
  33. Poem In the morning when it was r
  34. Prothalamion
  35. Poem Old man in the crystal morni
  36. Poem Remember midsummer the fragr
  37. Poem You my photographer you most
  38. Saint Revolutionist
  39. Socrates Ghost Must Haunt Me Now
  40. Someone Is Harshly Coughing As Be
  41. Sonnet On Famous And Familiar Son
  42. Sonnet O City City
  43. Sonnet Suggested By Homer Chaucer
  44. Sonnet The Ghosts Of James And Pe
  45. Spiders
  46. The Ballad Of The Children Of The
  47. The Ballet Of The Fifth Year
  48. The Beautiful American Word Sure
  49. The Choir And Music Of Solitude A
  50. The First Night Of Fall And Falli
  51. The Greatest Thing In North Ameri
  52. The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me
  53. The Journey Of A Poem Compared To
  54. The Poet
  55. The Sin Of Hamlet
  56. The Spring
  57. This Is A Poem I Wrote At Night B
  58. Tired And Unhappy You Think Of Ho
  59. To Helen
  60. Two Lyrics From Kilroys Carnival
  61. What Curious Dresses All Men Wear
  62. What Is To Be Given
  63. Words For A Trumpet Chorale Celeb
  64. Yeats Died Saturday In France
 
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