The Last Quarter of the Moon (Amy Lowell Poem)
How long shall I tarnish the mirror of life, A spatter of rust on its polished steel! The seasons reel ...
How long shall I tarnish the mirror of life, A spatter of rust on its polished steel! The seasons reel ...
I How the slates of the roof sparkle in the sun, over there, over there, beyond the high wall! How ...
Among the blight-killed eucalypts, among trees and bushes rusted by Christmas frosts, the yards and hillsides exhausted by five years ...
Can it be the sun descending O'er the level plain of water? Or the Red Swan floating, flying, Wounded by ...
Come, leave the loathed stage, And the more loathsome age; Where pride and impudence, in faction knit, Usurp the chair ...
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
Till I shall come again, let this suffice, I send my salt, my sacrifice To thee, thy lady, younglings, and ...
I A shaded lamp and a waving blind, And the beat of a clock from a distant floor: On this ...
I saw my world again through your eyes As I would see it again through your children's eyes. Through your ...
MANY a guest I'd see to-day, Met to taste my dishes! Food in plenty is prepar'd, Birds, and game, and ...
THERE was a wooer blithe and gay, A son of France was he,-- Who in his arms for many a ...
WITHIN the chamber, far away From the glad feast, sits Love in dread Lest guests disturb, in wanton play, The ...
And the priestess spoke again and said: "Speak to us of Reason and Passion." And he answered saying: Your soul ...
In rearing our children approaching them as honored guests the blessings that they are within each of our homes Christ's ...
We are all invited to be guests of the king to enter into the banquet hall for the wedding of ...
You and me, his messengers, his servants, slaves to God bringing his invitation that the feast is ready the wedding ...
A small church long past its birth stained windows, stained ceilings, dark stain on the pews dark runners on the ...
Listening to their harmonies, the blending of their voices really listening, feeling their songs pulled me back to other nights ...
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer: Of France the pride and honour I aver; The Holy Ampoule and ...
To the Almighty on his radiant Throne, Let endless Hallelujas rise! Praise Him, ye wondrous Heights to us unknown, Praise ...
Unto my Books -- so good to turn -- Far ends of tired Days -- It half endears the Abstinence ...
Taken from men -- this morning -- Carried by men today -- Met by the Gods with banners -- Who ...
Her Sweet turn to leave the Homestead Came the Darker Way -- Carriages -- Be Sure -- and Guests -- ...
amidst swirling wine and flickers of silver guests quote Dante, Brecht, Kant and each other. I wait in the hall ...
I see around me tombstones grey Stretching their shadows far away. Beneath the turf my footsteps tread Lie low and ...
Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind announces autumn, and the equinox rolls back blue bays to a far afternoon. ...
The people upstairs all practise ballet Their living room is a bowling alley Their bedroom is full of conducted tours. ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
I have always aspired to a more spacious form that would be free from the claims of poetry or prose ...
Into the acres of the newborn state He poured his strength, ...
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