It's time to post my own personal favorites, the pieces I myself love best in Hart Crane's "Complete Poems" :) Look at his mastery of form in this short tour de force:
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Bacardi Spreads the Eagle's Wing
By Harold Hart Crane
"Pablo and Pedro, and black Serafin
Bought a launch last week. It might as well
Have been made of---well, say paraffin,---
That thin and blistered ... just a rotten shell.
"Hell! out there among the barracudas
Their engine stalled. No oars, and leaks
Oozing a-plenty. They sat like baking Buddhas.
Luckily the Cayman schooner streaks
"By just in time, and lifts 'em high and dry ...
They're back now on that mulching job at Pepper's.
---Yes, patent-leather shoes hot enough to fry
Anyone but these native high-steppers!"
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