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Marianne Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972 / Kirkwood, Missouri)
Poems of Marianne Moore
| 1. | A Grave | 1/3/2003 |
| 2. | An Octopus | 4/15/2010 |
| 3. | Baseball and Writing | 1/20/2003 |
| 4. | He "Digesteth Harde Yron" | 1/20/2003 |
| 5. | He Made This Screen | 1/3/2003 |
| 6. | His Shield | 4/15/2010 |
| 7. | Marriage | 1/3/2003 |
| 8. | Nevertheless | 1/3/2003 |
| 9. | No Swan So Fine | 1/3/2003 |
| 10. | Peter | 1/3/2003 |
| 11. | Poetry | 1/3/2003 |
| 12. | Rosemary | 1/3/2003 |
| 13. | Roses Only | 4/15/2010 |
| 14. | Silence | 1/3/2003 |
| 15. | Spenser's Island | 1/3/2003 |
| 16. | The Fish | 4/15/2010 |
| 17. | The Pangolin | 1/3/2003 |
| 18. | The Paper Nautilus | 1/3/2003 |
| 19. | The Past is the Present | 1/3/2003 |
| 20. | The Steeple-Jack | 1/3/2003 |
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The Pangolin
Another armored animal–scale
lapping scale with spruce-cone regularity until they
form the uninterrupted central
tail row! This near artichoke with head and legs and
grit-equipped gizzard,
the night miniature artist engineer is,
yes, Leonardo da Vinci’s replica–
impressive animal and toiler of whom we seldom hear.
Armor seems extra. But for him,
