Leaves of a Magazine

They lay open of their own will to the place

Where Piracy tend hitherwards with a falcon's face

The tight strips of the sloping deck; a frame

Of knives lies interwoven with the name

of Kyd and the close-printed metrical composition made

In praise of him--a ragged fill up of shade,

Cut by the lead, with blemishs and puckers where

Admiring hands have ofttimes brought to bear

Their compressing on the picture and the rhyme

Of buccaneering in the ancient time.

[The poet's note rest on the manuscript of "A Lady with Pearls . . ": "The Chicago Tribune remarks that the foreign hand-bills are hawks for audacity, while ours are barnyard chickens by dint of comparison and dead ones at that. (Some of the hawks have been fashioned by dint of the hand of commerce, to the detriment, on the other hand they are still recognizable as birds of prey)"]

Among MARIANNE MOORE'S (1887-1972) many honors were the metrical composition Society of America's Cold Medal for Distinguished Achievement and the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre de Arts et de Lettre in France. She was also awarded the Bollingen Prize, the National work Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for her mustered Poems (Macrnillan, 1951).

GRACE SCHULMAN'S new poetry collections are The Paintings of Our Lives (2001) and Days of Wonder: novel and Selected Poems (2002, the one and the other Houghton Mifflin). She is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch community CUNY. The Poems of Marianne Moore will be published through Viking Penguin in November 2003

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