Marianne Moore. To an Intra-mural Rat. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

To an Intra-mural Rat

By Marianne Moore


From “Pouters and Fantails” YOU make me think of many men
Once met, to be forgot again;
Or merely resurrected
In a parenthesis of wit,
That found them hastening through it	5
Too brisk to be inspected.