The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde (Amy Lowell Poem)
The Bell in the convent tower swung. High overhead the great sun hung, A navel for the curving sky. The ...
The Bell in the convent tower swung. High overhead the great sun hung, A navel for the curving sky. The ...
(For Edward J. Wheeler) Within the Jersey City shed The engine coughs and shakes its head, The smoke, a plume ...
Full many a dreary hour have I past, My brain bewildered, and my mind o'ercast With heaviness; in seasons when ...
I will not have the mad Clytie, Whose head is turned by the sun; The tulip is a courtly queen, ...
I He bends his travel-tarnished feet To where she wastes in clay: From day-dawn until eve he fares Along the ...
HEAR, ye ladies that despise What the mighty Love has done; Fear examples and be wise: Fair Callisto was a ...
EXAMPLE often proves of sov'reign use; At other times it cherishes abuse; 'Tis not my purpose, howsoe'er, to tell Which ...
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
A CLOISTERED nun had a lover Dwelling in the neighb'ring town; Both racked their brains to discover How they best ...
WHEN Cupid with his dart, would hearts assail, The rampart most secure is not the VEIL; A husband better will ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
Es war, als hätt' der Himmel Die Erde still geküsst Dass sie im Blütenschimmer Von ihm nun träumen müsst Die ...
my mother pushed my sister out of the apartment door with an empty suitcase because she kept threatening to run ...
Sweet Mountains -- Ye tell Me no lie -- Never deny Me -- Never fly -- Those same unvarying Eyes ...
Only a Shrine, but Mine -- I made the Taper shine -- Madonna dim, to whom all Feet may come, ...
The West Village by then was changing; before long the rundown brownstones at its farthest edge would have slipped into ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Through the pungent hours of the afternoon, On the autumn slopes we have lightly wandered Where the sunshine lay in ...
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
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 ...
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
Hence, vain deluding Joys, ............The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested ............Or fill the fixed mind ...
OH, Prue she has a patient man, And Joan a gentle lover, And Agatha's Arth' is a hug-the-hearth, But my ...
What should I be but a prophet and a liar, Whose mother was a leprechaun, whose father was a friar? ...
Through every nook and every cranny The wind blew in on poor old Granny Around her knees, into each ear ...
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