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 ...
The world is narrow and ways are short, and our lives are dull and slow, For little is new where ...
Tout le ciel vert se meurt Le dernier arbre brûle. The whole green sky is dying. The last tree flares ...
The whole green sky is dying.The last tree flares With a great burst of supernatural rose Under a canopy of ...
Hard Rock/ was/ "known not to take no shit From nobody," and he had the scars to prove it: Split ...
Goodbye, lady in Bangor, who sent me snapshots of yourself, after definitely hinting you were beautiful; goodbye, Miami Beach urologist, ...
October, 1918 Across a world where all men grieve And grieving strive the more, The great days range like tides ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
'TERENCE, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see ...
My wearied heart bade me farewell and left for the House of Fortune. As he reached that holy city which ...
As the Sun withdrew his rays from the garden, and the moon threw cushioned beams upon the flowers, I sat ...
I have been spiritually poisoned by the unclean, in ignorance blessed their springs. In consequence I withered and drifted down ...
God made the wicked Grocer For a mystery and a sign, That men might shun the awful shops And go ...
Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humor Number 1 I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, And each damp thing that ...
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
BUT two miles more, and then we rest ! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the ...
You saw sagacious Solomon You know what came of him, To him complexities seemed plain. He cursed the hour that ...
(For G. H.) Say, does that stupid earth Where they have laid her, Bind still her sullen mirth, Mirth which ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
O LEAVE novels, 1 ye Mauchline belles, Ye're safer at your spinning-wheel; Such witching books are baited hooks For rakish ...
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get, The damp small ...
Deep in the desert's misery, far in the fury of the sand, there stands the awesome Upas Tree lone watchman ...
Our trees are aspens, but people mistake them for birches; they think of us as characters in a Russian novel, ...
Herbert broke our engagement of eight years When Annabelle returned to the village From the Seminary, ah me! If I ...
Dust of my dust, And dust with my dust, O, child who died as you entered the world, Dead with ...
When Reuben Pantier ran away and threw me I went to Springfield. There I met a lush, Whose father just ...
You praise my self-sacrifice, Spoon River, In rearing Irene and Mary, Orphans of my older sister! And you censure Irene ...
To be able to see every side of every question; To be on every side, to be everything, to be ...
I Not once in all our days of poignant love, Did I a single instant give to thee My undivided ...
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