Wallace Stevens. Of the Surface of Things. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Of the Surface of Things

By Wallace Stevens


From “Pecksniffiana” I IN my room, the world is beyond my understanding;
But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills and a cloud.

III From my balcony, I survey the yellow air,
Reading where I have written,
“The spring is like a belle undressing.”	5

III The gold tree is blue.
The singer has pulled his cloak over his head.
The moon is in the folds of the cloak.