Convalescence (Amy Lowell Poem)
From out the dragging vastness of the sea, Wave-fettered, bound in sinuous, seaweed strands, He toils toward the rounding beach, ...
From out the dragging vastness of the sea, Wave-fettered, bound in sinuous, seaweed strands, He toils toward the rounding beach, ...
How should I sing when buffeting salt waves And stung with bitter surges, in whose might I toss, a cockleshell? ...
When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Storm-wind of the equinox, Landword in his wrath he scourges The toiling surges, ...
I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour, And the moon rose o'er the ...
THROUGH my north window, in the wintry weather,-- My airy oriel on the river shore,-- I watch the sea-fowl as ...
for a man whose eyes till now were a bed of rock whose hands were drier than deserts the sea's ...
Laughing, we ran on the hot sand The damp beach under our feet The glistening ocean before us The girl ...
a dock, a working pier out into the estuary the pull of the tides, swaying seaweed barnacles, algae, the smell ...
Head turned down to the sand sunburn to be, on the back of my neck looking for the little treasures ...
Smooth glass, clear, or in the prism's spectrum Cool of polished marble in Washington's monuments smooth of a baby's skin, ...
The jetty changed, when the tide came in turned its course and headed out once more There were pools, caught ...
WHEN Mr. Apollinax visited the United States His laughter tinkled among the teacups. I thought of Fragilion, that shy figure ...
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma ...
I hang about the streets all day, At night I hang about; I sleep a little when I may, But ...
Not, exactly, green: closer to bronze preserved in kind brine, something retrieved from a Greco-Roman wreck, patinated and oddly muscular. ...
Behind faces and gestures We remain mute And spoken words heavy With what we ignore or keep silent Betray us ...
A forge burns in my heart. I am redder than dawn, Deeper than seaweed, More distant than gulls, More hollow ...
Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend ...
Behind faces and gestures We remain mute And spoken words heavy With what we ignore or keep silent Betray us ...
The sleepy sound of a tea-time tide Slaps at the rocks the sun has dried, Too lazy, almost, to sink ...
How straight it flew, how long it flew, It clear'd the rutty track And soaring, disappeared from view Beyond the ...
(Translated from the French by Edouard Rodti) My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of ...
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below! Now my brothers call from the bay, Now the great ...
You are the daughter of the sea, oregano's first cousin. Swimmer, your body is pure as the water; cook, your ...
People are putting up storm windows now, Or were, this morning, until the heavy rain Drove them indoors. So, coming ...
We who travel between worlds lose our muscle and bone. I was wheeling a barrow of earth when agony bayoneted ...
I will think no more of the sea! Of the big green waves And the hollowed shore, Of the brown ...
Man looking into the sea, taking the view from those who have as much right to it as you have ...
Strong and slippery, built for the midnight grass-party confronted by four cats, he sleeps his time away-- the detached first ...
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