The Happy Marriage and Other Poems
THE HAPPY MARRIAGE
and Other Poems
THE
HAPPY MARRIAGE
AND OTHER POEMS
by
ARCHIBALD MacLEISH
Boston and New York
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1924
COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY ARCHIBALD MacLEISH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
NOTE
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the Atlantic Monthly, the New Republic, the North American Review, and the Yale Review for permission to reprint certain of the poems contained in this volume.
CONTENTS
The Happy Marriage1
The Lord Chancellor prepares his Opinion40
Hunters46
Hands47
Hypocrites50
Invocation51
Chambers of Imagery54
The Geographer56
The Tomb of the Abbess of Tours57
The Word59
Difference61
Chevaux de Bois62
Song65
To the Tune of Walsingham66
Bronze68
Omniscience70
Kenneth71
For Remembrance75
Years Ago76
Sonnet79
Alien80
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