Poetry

Below is a table featuring the known poetry of Benjamin DeCasseres. It is a work in progress. Most of these have been published in IMP, though quite a few have been discovered since the publication and will be collected for a revised and expanded edition.

 

"Let Us Have Peace"
Life
8/10/1916
The Sunset massed its bleeding swords against the marble turrets of the Tomb
"Progress" Quill, The 6/1/1919 1919 (First line)
A Black Minute Masque of the Minutes I am Ennui,
A Brazen Minute Masque of the Minutes I am Curiosity,
A Cowled Minute Masque of the Minutes At the feast of the Furies
A Desolate Minute Masque of the Minutes I was once a fly
A Frozen Minute Masque of the Minutes I am Reason,
A Gray Minute Masque of the Minutes I am Fatigue,
A Hypocrite Minute Masque of the Minutes I am the triumphant Archangel
A Murderous Minute Masque of the Minutes I am the brigand
A Mystic Minute Masque of the Minutes I am a diver
A Nameless Minute Masque of the Minutes The brain is a carcass
A Narcotic Minute Masque of the Minutes I am the bloodshot eye
A Passionate Minute Masque of the Minutes The veil of the senses
A Philosophic Minute Masque of the Minutes Pale,
A Pilgrim Minute Masque of the Minutes I am a Pilgrim Minute,
A Son Of God Black Suns
A Spectral Minute Masque of the Minutes I crossed the threshold of the
A Static Minute Masque of the Minutes I am a Static Minute,
A Super-Minute Masque of the Minutes Death can waive me,
A Twin-Born Minute Masque of the Minutes I am Beauty-and-Death,
Across the Gulf. Sun, The March 26, 1916
An Anarch Minute Masque of the Minutes I hung upon the granite walls of the
An Arcless Minute Masque of the Minutes I am the Will-to-Immobility,
An Eternal Minute Masque of the Minutes Like a giant glow-worm,
An Incident International, The Builded of prisms, old gold and green, the Temple of Paphos rose in the depths of the wine,
An Ironic Minute Masque of the Minutes I am the last minute that lived
Anarch Quill, The The Fiery Wing of Prodigious Hate cleaves Wall and Roof and Heaven,
Anathema! Litanies of Negation I will break every web that is woven and spin my light and my night over the universe.
Apologia Pro Vita Souse Buffalo NY Evening News 1920
Arise Ye Dead! Evening Public Ledger 7/18/1918 1918 MIRACLE day of the dead!
Ave, Zarathustra Quill, The The Dancer on the Crumbling Edge
Ave, Zarathustra! Black Suns
Beyond Sense The Shadow-Eater
Bio International, The I, a soldier of dreams, came to the fortress of my Ideal.
Bird Of The Night The Shadow-Eater
Birth of a Sword Greensboro Daily News Mar 15, 1916 1916 Wavering, misty, uncertain, a Thought begins to agglomerate and sparkle on the eastern horizon of my brain,
Change And An Ending The Shadow-Eater
Chant of Man: 1917 Washington Times 5/24/1917 1917
Chimeras Black Suns
Codpiece Chiron the Centaur I dance with the Ultimate,
Credo for Eunuch-Pacifists Quill, The Grip the fiery Dream!
D'Annunzio Flying Feb 1919 Titan of earth and air,
Dawn Black Suns
Dawn Quill, The 6/1/1919 1919
De Profundis The Shadow-Eater
Dying The Shadow-Eater
Exvolved The Shadow-Eater
Face To Face The Shadow-Eater
Facts Black Suns
Fantasia Black Suns
Fantasie Quill, The September 1919
Fifty! Life v67n1754
Foch! And in my vision I saw Sainte Jeanne of Domremy arise
France (1789-1918.) Bloomington Indiana Daily Student 19 July 1918
Godward The Shadow-Eater
Half-Seen The Shadow-Eater
Hold Yet a Little While! The Daily Ardmorite 11/13/1917 1917 Torn and bleeding and battered
Home The Sublime Boy No more the fallacies of flesh,
Imagination Arizona Republican 1/19/1917 1917
Imagination Black Suns
Immune The Sublime Boy He stands a carven image in my brain, the great
In The Adytum The Shadow-Eater
In The Backyard Of Life Black Suns
In the Slums International, The Downtown, in the poorer quarters of my soul, in the slums of myself, I saw and heard this thing:
Ingression Black Suns
It Quill, The September 1919 I hold the stars in my fist
Keats Black Suns
Late Autumn International, The Falling leaves sighing like dying fairies,
Letter-Boxes Life July 5, 1917 Strapped like martyrs with thongs of iron
Love And Sleep The Shadow-Eater
Love The Destroyer The Shadow-Eater
Magical Night Black Suns
Man Black Suns
March Funebre (2) Black Suns
March Winds Washington Times 3/11/1917 1917 From the four corners of earth I come,
Marche Funebre Quill, The
Minutes Masque of the Minutes Monumental, immemorial Minutes!
Miracles Black Suns
Morning Magic Harrisburg Star-Independent 09/11/1916 1916 Away! Away!
Moth-Terror The Shadow-Eater
Motre Seigneur Quill, The June 1919 1919
My Comic Perspective The Shadow-Eater
My Divine Hate The Shadow-Eater
My Golden Age Washington Times 2/6/1917 1917
My Holy Lust The Shadow-Eater
My Lamp International, The The twilight blots out the sunbeams one by one on the wall above my lamp,
My Shadows The Shadow-Eater
New York Quill, The Magnificent and sepulchral lungs of Death,
Night Cometh Revolt 02/05/1916
On A Marriage The Shadow-Eater
Peter Pan Life 07/22/1920 “PETER PAN: Children’s Matinee To-day.”
Potporri Revolt 01/29/1916
Prayer Cosmopolitan All rational pleasure is prayer; all sincere work and effort are prayers
Pre-Destined The Sublime Boy With eye that cleft the many-colored Lure
Prophetic The Shadow-Eater
Rejection The Shadow-Eater
Resolved The Sublime Boy I would not have him back.
Resurrection Night The Shadow-Eater
Revelation International, The Days when Nothing happens,
Ruins Washington Times 12/08/1916
Salutation Black Suns
Sea Mania Sun, The 8/1/1915 Sea that whistles and sea that sobs.
Sea-Mania Black Suns
Sea-Mania Quill, The 6/1/1919 1919
Shelley Black Suns
Sleep Black Suns
Sleep Life March 8, 1917
Smiles and a Query Washington Times 6/22/1917 1917
Solitude Papyrus, The 10/1/1911 1911 Friends, come sit beside me that I may feel the mighty distance between us.
Song of Songs Revolt 2/5/1916
Strayling Black Suns
Strayling International, The A tiny hair on my overcoat, coming from whence I know not,
Sub Specie Eternitatis Washington Times 6/7/1917 1917
Swinburne Black Suns
Tantara! Tantaro! The Shadow-Eater
The Alleys Of Eld The Shadow-Eater
The Ball Game New York Tribune 9/2/1918 1918 What’s the score, Satan?
The Bootlegger’s Daughter Kennebec Journal 7 Jun. 1924 1924 I am in love with the bootlegger’s daughter.
The Cleft In The Wall The Shadow-Eater
The Closed Room The Shadow-Eater
The Cynic Of Nazareth The Shadow-Eater
The Dead Who Live The Shadow-Eater
The Decoy Black Suns
The Dream Pocket Judge 23 Aug. 1919 I am a tobacco pouch,
The Eter-Null Quill, The 6/1/1919 1919 I hollow abysms behind your steps as you march toward the stars,
The Eternal Avatar Washington Times 5/10/1917 1917
The Final Minute Masque of the Minutes Final Minute,
The Gallic Lark and the Sow-on-the Rhine New-York Tribune 04/23/1918 1918 The Lark (whirling in the azure)
The God Of Negation The Shadow-Eater
The Hague—1915 Revolt 02/05/1916
The Haunted House Black Suns
The Haunted House Others May-June 1916 My brain is like a tropical forest, dark and sinister,
The Haunted House Puck Feb. 3, 1917
The Humorist Black Suns
The Humorist Quill, The 6/1/1919 1919 And the Great Secret stood before me nude and said:
The Humorist Life
The Ideal Black Suns
The Inevitable Life Dec. 7, 1916 To the eye of the child it is a horizon sunken beneath the horizon,
The Lady of the Hour She lifted her veils and said:
The Long Vigil The Shadow-Eater
The Minutes Camera Work 1/1/1913
The Muses of the Moment Quill, The 6/1/1919 1919 Of dead dreams and antique prophecies,
The Mysterious Weaver Sun, The 01/16/1916 1916 Time the weaver of life,
The Overlord Black Suns
The Overone The Shadow-Eater
The Pacisifst's Breviary If a fire breaks out in your house speak to it gently.
The Peeper The Shadow-Eater
The Pickpocket Black Suns
The Poet and the Hooligans Buffalo NY Evening News Nov 23, 1920 1921 A poet started to ramble over the rainbow,
The Poet-Burglar Washington Times 6/13/1917 1917
The Policeman (elsehwere "The Poet-Burglar"?) Puck 02/24/1917
The Presence: Hymn of a Nihilist to OBLIVION FINIS Being is Thy Space, Will is Thy Time, and all matter and mind is but an atom in the iris of Thy luminous eye, O Presence!
The Protagonist The Shadow-Eater
The Quest In The Flesh The Shadow-Eater
The Risen Giant! Washington Times 02/07/1917 Like the pounding of vast thundercloud waters
The Rotted Ideal The Shadow-Eater
The Sea The Sun 1/25/1920 1920 I am the Sea,
The Shrine In The Mist The Shadow-Eater
The Sleeper The Shadow-Eater
The Soul of It All Washington Times 6/7/1917 1917
The Spear Of The Great Spurning The Shadow-Eater
The Syncopated Spinner The Shadow-Eater
The Thief Black Suns
The Tongueless One The Shadow-Eater
The Tragic Bluffer Black Suns
The Truant The Shadow-Eater
The Ultimate The Shadow-Eater
The Undying Flame (see "The Eternal Avatar")
The Vampire Quill, The Vampire of the Beautiful,
The Vat Black Suns
The Vigil The Shadow-Eater
The Vision Malefic The Shadow-Eater
The Watcher The Shadow-Eater
The Way Out: Bio The Shadow-Eater
The Wisdom of Gautama Cortland NY Standard
The-Circle-That-Looks-Like-A-Line The Shadow-Eater
Threshold Sun, The 1/11/1920 1920 An elfin thought on the marge of my
To a Great American Sun, The 07/07/1918 Halloo! Halloo! Walt Whitman–
To Benj. DeC From Ern. M. Hunt Quill, The
To Emile Verhaeren Sun, The 11/21/1915 1915 Titan of Flanders, whose brain is a tocsin of gold and whose breath is the clamor of tempests,
To The Old Soak Harrisburg Telegraph 12 Sept. 1921 I am the Mecca of Sorrows,
Unwithered The Sublime Boy She sepulchred his soul in soft, lascivious flesh,
Uprendered The Sublime Boy He is the slab of light across my door,
Vers Libre Black Suns
Verse Libre Quill, The
Vicariously Quill, The September 1919 My eyes are tired of looking at the things they do not see;
Vision Quill, The May 1920 On a sudden I beheld
W.S.: 1616-1916 Sun, The 02/13/1916 You are not buried where your body lies,
Waiting The Sublime Boy You are not buried where your body lies,
Walter Black Suns
West Point International, The Gray and white automatons in the summer sunshine,
Wind Life Aug. 9, 1919 WIND! Wind!

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