Subseries 1. Poetry, 1900-1949

Scope and Content Notes: This subseries contains early handwritten and typewritten rough drafts of mostly subsequently published poems. The first subseries features Allen's draft single leaf titles, the second subseries features collective manuscript material of Allen's major poems and collections, and the third features poetry written by other authors. Because many of the materials lack dates in particular the single title materials, titles are arranged alphabetically. Some materials lack a proper titles or have indecipherable titles. For these, titles with ellipses reflect indecipherable or illegible words or phrases. For materials without a clear given title, titles are borrowed from the first discernable verse of the poem and are in brackets.

Section: Single Titles

Box 5

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Single Titles: A

1. After the March: Nogent l'Artaud, 1918

2. Afterglow, 1931

3. Aftermath, 1920

4. Alchemy

5. [All are snowcapped mountains…], 1900

6. Amelia Burr: A Ballad of Old Charleston

7. America’s First First

8. [And now he dwells…]

9. Anodyne

10. The Answer, 1917-1925

11. Any Time

12. The Apple Tree

13. An Approach to An Epitaph

14. Analia Felix

15. As It Was In The Beginning

16. Assama

17. At Alcantara

18. [At Azerbaijain in the lakes of Khar…], 1949

19. Autumn, 1918

20. Autumn Invocation: The Seasons Wait Their Turns Among the Stars

21. Autumn Portents

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Single Titles: B

1. Bacchus Is Gone

2. Back River

3. [Bad the time and the bee…]

4. Ballad of Death Romance

5. Ballad of the Fruitless Plant

6. Banished

7. Baskets

8. Beaumont, 1918

9. Beauty and Love, 1916

10. [The bees once fell a quarreling on the couch…]

11. Bermuda

12. Bewitched: An Incident from the Life of Pierre Loti

13. Beyond Debate

14. Beyond the Night, 1916

15. Bibles

16. Big Bend

17. Big Cove

18. Bill, 1918

19. Biography and Epitaph of Verbum Sap

20. The Blindman: A Ballad of Nogent l'Artaud, 1918-1919

21. The Blockade Runner

22. Bright Star

23. Burnt Sons, 1945

24. Business

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Single Titles: C

1. The Cat Man

2. The Cat Witch, 1926

3. The Children by the Lake of Dreams: A Persian Fragment, 1930

4. Christmas Coloure

5. Christmas Magic

6. [Clear as the burning heart of love…]

7. Clio

8. La Clouche Joyeuse

9. Les Cloches

10. Confession

11. Considerations: After the Fight at Croix Rouge Farm

12. Conversation in Morningside

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Single Titles: D

1. The Dark Tower, 1916

2. Dark Tower by Night

3. Day Star

4. Death of the Elk

5. Dem Boids: A Ballad of the Bronx

6. [Dedicated to the man...]

7. [Democracy, the bastard bitch...]

8. Despair

9. Diana of the Dunes, 1925

10. [Debbie] Song

11. [The difficulty of making songs...]

12. Dirge

13. Dog Days

14. [The dog in the manger...]

15. Doomed

16. Dragon's Breath

17. Dream Flowers

18. Dream Fragment, 1920

19. Dream Friend

20. The Dream Wood

21. Dull Days

22. Dust

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Single Titles: E

1. Easter, 1918

2. Echoes, 1915

3. Eclipse

4. El Paso, 1916

5. Elesmir

6. Encore un Autre, 1919

7. L'envoi

8. Epilogue

9. Eventide

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Single Titles: F

1. Fable of the Dog and Cat

2. Fall

3. First Love

4. Fleur de Lis

5. [The flood of May has moved into June...]

6. For Annette's Andirons

7. For DuBose Heyward, 1940

8. [For though from gentle Jennifer...]

9. Forest Whisperers

10. Friendship

11. Four Proverbs of Hell

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Single Titles: G

1. Gamesters All

2. Gemini

3. General Court Martial, 1919

4. Goat Song

5. [Goat of the [farther] left of old...]

6. Goin' Home?

8. The Gold Star, 1916

9. The Golden Ghost

10. Goodbye Sweet Day

11. The Goose Creek Voice

12. [The great [anthological] with front of brass…]

13. The Great Right Whale: A Fisherman's Prayer, 1947

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Single Titles: H

1. Hadrian at Tivoli

2. Hag Hollerin' Time

3. [Hail bright [magical brat]...]

4. Hail Columbia

5. Hands Off! Dedicated to Orators and Others

6. Hark

7. Headlines

8. Helen

9. Hermitage

10. A Hermitage of Bells: A Fantasy

11. Hiking, 1916

12. The Holy Rood: A Chant

13. Horoscope for A.A.A.

14. The Hours of Childhood

15. [How did the archaeopteryx…]

16. The House by the Marsh, 1929

17. How Long

18. [How to propose none of us C…]

19. Human Hands

20. Hylas

21. A Hymn on Christmas Morning

22. Hymn to Time

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Single Titles: I

1. [I think some dusk [they] metal [mice]…]

2. Illegitimate, 1925

3. In Dear Old Fashion '89

4. In Memoriam: Major Christopher Magee Anderson, Eighteenth Pennsylvania Infantry, 1916

5. In the Woods

6. Inspiration

7. [Into these dark pastures...]

8. Isis

9. Island Winter: Lat. 31 [degrees] N

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Single Titles: J

1. Jewish Bonds and Genital [Reviews]

2. John Brashear

3. June

4. Jungle Night: To Ann's Bronze Elephants

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Single Titles: K

1. The Kettle-Mending at La Luz

2. King Agog's Bed

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Single Titles: L

1. La Fayette Lands

2. Landbound

3. The Last Crew

4. The Latter Day Saint

5. Light on the Hills

6. The Little One at Home, 1916

7. [The little poets of our great despair...]

8. Locusts, 1917

9. [Lumerary]

10. Lust

11. The Lute, 1919

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Single Titles: M

1. Macabre in Macaws

2. Madonna

3. The Mainspring

4. Major Andre's Flute and Shelley's Skylark

5. Manhattan Matins

6. Marcia's May-Day Song

7. The Marshland, 1919

8. Melpomeme's Song

9. Middleton's Gardens

10. Modern Philosopher

11. Moments, 1922

12 Montrogan

13. Moon Sonnet

14. The Mormon Trail

15. Morning Noon and Night

16. Mountain Interlude

17. Mourn, Psyche, Mourn!

18. The Murmuring River, 1909

19. Mutability, 1924

20. [My days and nights I have not idly spent...]

21. My Verdun

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Single Titles: N

1. Nightingales are Scarce West of Exeter

2. Nostalgia

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Single Titles: O

1. [O God looks down...]

2. October

3. An Ode: To be spoken on Memorial Day

4. Ode in Time of Madness: An Incantation, 1945

5. An Ode on Mutability

6. Ode to the Sun (Sol Invictus)

7. Oh, Where

8. The Old Judge, 1920

9. Old Meadows

10. The Old Song

11. [On a distant view of Oxford Tower...]

12. [On earth the wind as [evict] us death...]

13. [Once they looked and saw a valley...]

14. One of Hells Proverbs: Wash Day

15. [Only in dreams of morning...]

16. On the Bay

17. The Oriol

18. [Out out brief candle, now the...]

19. Overtones

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Single Titles: P

1. Palmetto Town

2. [Panocia]

3. Paris, Mother of Dreams

4. Part of Angels Song for Christmas Hymn

5. Passes E.W.

6. Pay Day, 1916

7. The Pharaoh of Moses

8. Pines and Cones

9. The Pirates

10. Pittsburgh

11. Poe in Carolina: Alchemy

12. The Poets Epitaph

13. The Poor Poet

14. Portentia

15. Predicament

16. Presences

17. The Priest and the Pirate: The Ballad of Theodosia Burr

18. A Processional on Christmas Morning

19. Proem

20. Profile-axis

21. Progress

22. Prologue: Annie's Town Before the Mills Came

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Single Titles: Q

1. The Quality of Beauty

2. Question, 1940

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Single Titles: R

1. The Raid on Dun, 1919

2. The Rain Bell

3. [Ramses] Worship of the Third [Cataract]

4. Recollect

5. Relativity, 1922

6. A Rendezvous with Life

7. Rennaisance

8. Reply to Ambush

9. The Reubens of Brass

10. Reverie

11. Rhapsody

12. Rhetorical result of an Elegy for Amy Lowell

13. The Rivals

14. The Road Beyond the Tower

15. Roadside Epitaph

16. The Rose in Amber

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Single Titles: S

1. The Sacrifice

2. Saga of Leif the Lucky, 1923

3. Salt o' the Earth, 1918

4. Salt Town

5. The Scandal

6. The Scissor Grinder

7. The Sea Bogy

8. The Seasons: Autumn Invocation

9. The Seasons: Winter

10. [See how the light falls...]

11. The Sewees of Sewee Bay

12. Shadow to Shadow

13. Silences

14. The Skull

15. Sleep, 1909

16. Sohrab and Rustum

17. Soldier Poet: To Francis Fowler Hogan

18. Source

19. Speak

20. The Spirit of the Maid, 1919

21. Spring Authentic

22. Spring Shadows

23. Springs Pilgrims

24. The Stars of God

25. Sullivan's Island: To E.A.P.

26. Summer Girl

27. A Summer Idyll

28. The Sunflower

29. Sylvan Poor, 1929

30. Symbols of Symbols

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Single Titles: T

1. The Talker

2. [That's why I sit here now...]

3. That Tiger Cat of Ours

4. Theodesia Burr: Her Story as Told by an Old Confederate Naval Officer

5. [There is a [more]...]

6. They Say

7. They Watch and Wait, 1916

8. Thou Mother

9. Three Landscape Moods: High Tide o' Life

10. Three Lanscape Moods: Youth

11. Tiger Lilies

12. To a Certain Imagist

13. To a Frozen Butterfly

14. To a Portrait of Theodosia Burr

15. To Arthur in Avalon, 1932

16. To Harriette

17. To James Whitcomb Riley, 1916

18. To Ma, 1909

19. To My Dog

20. To My Grandparents on Their Fifty Third Wedding Anniversary, 1910

21. To My Happy Sister Helen

22. To My Father

23. To the Home Folks, 1916

24. To the Polius

25. To the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill: Christmas, 1941

26. To the Winged Victory of Samothrace

27. The Tower by Might

28. The Triumph of Edom: Palestine

29. Twilight, 1916

30. Twilight Escape

31. Two Pages from the Book of the Sea Islands: Shadows

32. The Two Republics

33. The Tyrant

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Single Titles: U

1. [Up all you sluggish men of peace...], 1910

2. Upstairs Downstairs

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Single Titles: V

1. The Vikings: North - Proem, 1923

2. The Vikings: Saga of Leif the Lucky, 1923

3. The Vikings: The Cat Witch, 1923

4. Village Voices

5. Voice of Live

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Single Titles: W

1. Waitin' and Drillin', 1916

2. Walk [Broad] Song

3. War Clouds

4. The Watchful Waiting

5. We, 1919

6. [What sound to catch the thing...]

7. When Shady Avenue was Shady Lane, 1919

8. [When in the 1920's you began...]

9. [When in the night the [manifest] if island must...]

10. [When dwell and life [sit there]...]

11. [When the frost is on the [fancy kin]...]

12. Where the Sugar and Maple Grows

13. The Wind

14. The Wingless Victory, 1920

15. [With life that hurtles like a spark...]

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Single Titles: Y

1. Yes

2. YS

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Single Titles: Z

1. Zachias, 1946

Section: Major Poems and Collections

Box 7

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Black Roses: Original Manuscript

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Black Roses: Photograph

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The Blindman: Original Manuscript and Correspondence 1919

Correspondence includes editorial conversations Allen had with Amy Lowell. Allen sent early drafts of The Blindman to Lowell who was influential in getting the manuscript published in the North American Review. In her September 12, 1919 letter to Allen she identifies that Allen had "improved [the poem] immensely" and talks about sending it to a "Mr. Sedgwick," most likely Atlantic Monthly's editor at the time, Ellery Sedgwick. The letter ends on a humorous note with Lowell stating Mr. Sedgwick does not know a poem from a potato, but sometimes his taste betrays him and he gets something good by mistake.

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The Blindman: First and Second Proof

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Carolina Chansons: Preface

Box 8

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Carolina Chansons: Original Draft and Revisions, 1921

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Carolina Chansons: Typed Copies

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Christmas Epithalamium: Original Manuscript

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Children of Earth (from Earth Moods)

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Earth Moods: Original Manuscript

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Flowers from Fields Aflame: Typewritten, 1917-1918

Box 9

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The Leaping Poll: Original Manuscript

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Mine Host: Original Manuscript, 1925

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New Legends: Magazine Publications List

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New Legends: Holograph Manuscript

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New Legends: Poetic Attitude Holograph and Typed Manuscript

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Saga Leif the Lucky: Preface

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Saga Leif the Lucky: Original Manuscript

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Saga Leif the Lucky and Other Poems, The Vikings: Typescript Manuscript, ca. 1925

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Sarah Simon: Correspondence

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Sarah Simon: Holograph Manuscript

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Sarah Simon: Typed Manuscript

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Sidonian Hanno: Original Manuscript, 1925

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Songs for Annette: Preface

Box 10

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Selected Poems: Typed White Manuscript

Section: Other Authors' Works

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Poems Written by Various Authors