The Surprises Of The Superhuman

Wallace Stevens

The palais de justice of chambermaids
Tops the horizon with its colonnades.

If it were lost in Übermenschlichkeit,
Perhaps our wretched state would soon come right.

For somehow the brave dicta of its kings
Make more awry our faulty human things.

Next 10 Poems

• Wallace Stevens : The Wind Shifts
• Wallace Stevens : Theory
• Wallace Stevens : Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird
• Wallace Stevens : To The One Of Fictive Music
• Wallace Stevens : To The Roaring Wind
• Wallace Stevens : Two Figures In Dense Violet Night
• Wallace Stevens : Valley Candle
• Robert Louis Stevenson : A Valentine's Song
• Robert Louis Stevenson : About The Sheltered Garden Ground
• Robert Louis Stevenson : Ad Magistrum Ludi

Previous 10 Poems

• Wallace Stevens : The Snow Man
• Wallace Stevens : The Plot Against The Giant
• Wallace Stevens : The Place Of The Solitaires
• Wallace Stevens : The Paltry Nude Starts On A Spring Voyage
• Wallace Stevens : The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad
• Wallace Stevens : The Load Of The Sugar Cane
• Wallace Stevens : The Emperor Of Ice-cream
• Wallace Stevens : The Doctor Of Geneva
• Wallace Stevens : The Death Of A Soldier
• Wallace Stevens : The Curtains In The House Of The Metaphysician