Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (Amy Lowell Poem)
A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran ...
A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran ...
Let me be at the place of the castle. Let the castle be within me. Let it rise foursquare from ...
You do not come dramatically, with dragons That rear up with my life between their paws And dash me butchered ...
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door . A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat, . Lay down ...
INSCRIPTION FOR AN ANTIQUE PITCHER Come, old friend! sit down and listen! From the pitcher, placed between us, How the ...
St. Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through ...
A lake and a fairy boat To sail in the moonlight clear, - And merrily we would float From the ...
Out of the poisonous East, Over a continent of blight, Like a maleficent Influence released From the most squalid cellerage ...
The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less; The times are winter, watch, a world undone: They waste, they ...
when you step out of the wood and go first time to school you have to be so specially careful ...
'But that was nothing to what things came out From the sea-caves of Criccieth yonder.' 'What were they? Mermaids? dragons? ...
In my childhood rumors ran Of a world beyond our door- Terrors to the life of man That the highroad ...
How calm, how beauteous and how cool-- How like a sister to the skies, Appears the broad, transparent pool That ...
"Lights out" along the land, "Lights out" upon the sea. The night must put her hiding hand O'er peaceful towns ...
The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your ...
The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your ...
I had not minded -- Walls -- Were Universe -- one Rock -- And far I heard his silver Call ...
When I was just a little boy, Before I went to school, I had a fleet of forty sail I ...
The last pose flickered, failed. The screen's dead white Glared in a sudden flooding of harsh light Stabbing the eyes; ...
Well, as you say, we live for small horizons: We move in crowds, we flow and talk together, Seeing so ...
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
In the dour ages Of drafty cells and draftier castles, Of dragons breathing without the frame of fables, Saint and ...
Come, my songs, let us express our baser passions. Let us express our envy for the man with a steady ...
1 On Hellespont, guilty of true love's blood, 2 In view and opposite two cities stood, 3 Sea-borderers, disjoin'd by ...
1 On Hellespont, guilty of true love's blood, 2 In view and opposite two cities stood, 3 Sea-borderers, disjoin'd by ...
Heavens above! here's an old tie of your-- Sea-green dragons stamped on a golden ground. Ha! Ha! Ha! What children ...
Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking Weight does raise; So Man, declining ...
Wherever I am, there's always Pooh, There's always Pooh and Me. Whatever I do, he wants to do, "Where are ...
A Song in Chinese Tapestries "How, how," he said. "Friend Chang," I said, "San Francisco sleeps as the dead- Ended ...
I asked the old Negro, "What is that bird that sings so well?" He answered: "That is the Rachel-Jane." "Hasn't ...
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