The Fool Errant (Amy Lowell Poem)
The Fool Errant sat by the highway of life And his gaze wandered up and his gaze wandered down, A ...
The Fool Errant sat by the highway of life And his gaze wandered up and his gaze wandered down, A ...
A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran ...
That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes Like New Orleans reflected on the water, And in all ears appropriate ...
(For Alden March) With drooping sail and pennant That never a wind may reach, They float in sunless waters Beside ...
1903 Lived a woman wonderful, (May the Lord amend her!) Neither simple, kind, nor true, But her Pagan beauty drew ...
1914 He passed in the very battle-smoke Of the war that he had descried. Three hundred mile of cannon spoke ...
Not with an outcry to Allah nor any complaining He answered his name at the muster and stood to the ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
WITH palette laden She sat, as I passed her, A dainty maiden Before an Old Master. What mountain-top is She ...
GRANDMOTHER's mother: her age, I guess, Thirteen summers, or something less; Girlish bust, but womanly air; Smooth, square forehead with ...
'TWAS a death-bed summons, and forth I went By the way of the Western Wall, so drear On that winter ...
As at sunset I was straying Silently the wood along, Damon on his flute was playing, And the rocks gave ...
(Not in the English sense of the word, but the German, where it has the meaning of betrothed.) I SLEPT,--'twas ...
Part One As night fell and the light glittered in the great house, the servants stood at the massive door ...
One heavy day I ran away from the grim face of society and the dizzying clamor of the city and ...
Greeted by one of my brothers standing in the sanctuary aisle not understanding what he meant when he said it ...
The same word, the same spelling; but oh so different meanings frame the week to come Their palms, in joy, ...
At the end of the Thanksgiving service, she shared the affirmation of her call, her turn before the committee, She ...
A house of princesses greeted our three on the return from the church, the pageant practice a lost memory as ...
Henry the Seventh of England Wasn't out of the Royal top drawer, The only connection of which he could boast, ...
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows ...
Even from afar came shouts of recognition joyful voices rang across the years disdained and faces of our childhood unforgot ...
My maternal grandparents were snowbirds; the scent of their plumage an evergreen air freshener dangling off the rearview mirror of ...
The little voices of the prairie dogs Are tireless . . . They will give three hurrahs Alike to stage, ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
Say over again, and yet once over again, That thou dost love me. Though the word repeated Should seem 'a ...
call it the greenhouse effect or whatever but it just doesn't rain like it used to. I particularly remember the ...
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