The Red Lacquer Music-Stand (Amy Lowell Poem)
A music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since brought In some fast clipper-ship from China, quaintly wrought With bossed and carven ...
A music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since brought In some fast clipper-ship from China, quaintly wrought With bossed and carven ...
This little bowl is like a mossy pool In a Spring wood, where dogtooth violets grow Nodding in chequered sunshine ...
1. Cogida and death At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon. A boy brought the ...
WITH palette laden She sat, as I passed her, A dainty maiden Before an Old Master. What mountain-top is She ...
I ENCHANTER of Erin, whose magic has bound us, Thy wand for one moment we fondly would claim, Entranced while ...
No news of navies burnt at seas; No noise of late spawn'd tittyries; No closet plot or open vent, That ...
'Whenever I plunge my arm, like this, In a basin of water, I never miss The sweet sharp sense of ...
THE queen in the lofty hall takes her place, The tapers around her are flaming; She speaks to the page: ...
in the wares before you spread, Types of all things may be read. 'NEATH the shadow Of these bushes, On ...
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great ...
His hands upon the chalice the cup of our salvation on the bread, His life poured out in sacrifice His ...
Sometimes hesitant sitting fitfully hesitant to come not yet ready that moment too some called to come, forward falling at ...
Oh Lord, we tremble, solemn with joy, yet feeling unworthy something about the truth of our earthly nature hearing your ...
My hands cupped waiting, in my stillness silently waiting for the bread, the offering his life for me, that I ...
Not at the beginning not with Adam in Eden with Jesus in his anguish in the night of Gethsemane Our ...
Watching Christ sitting at the table speaking words unlike the others always the same before Hushed, in that moment the ...
Christ, more than a gracious host, in the symbolism poured out in the breaking of the bread the lifting up ...
The same redemption, the same gift of grace offering us love freely to all not just to the twelve sitting ...
Pausing in my praying aware of the fragrance of Christ the smell of his blood resting upon my hands His ...
Raising the bread from the chalice the wine splashing running down my hand the smell of his blood as I ...
Drink from these deep pools of effervescent light endless springs of living water dip your cur, your chalice quench your ...
The sun Golden chalice Clutched by God's hand Light cut by God's fingers, The clouds The dawning That morning (Raymond ...
When I was born, From all the seas of strength Fate filled a chalice, Saying, This be thy portion, child; ...
I know what the caged bird feels, alas! When the sun is bright on the upland slopes; When the wind ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Next, then, the peacock, gilt With all its feathers. Look, what gorgeous dyes Flow in the eyes! And how deep, ...
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
Si credere dignum est.--Virgil, Georgics, III, 390 Oh, worthy of belief I hold it was, Virgil, your legend in those ...
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