In Excelsis (Amy Lowell Poems)
You — you — Your shadow is sunlight on a plate of silver; Your footsteps, the seeding-place of lilies; Your ...
You — you — Your shadow is sunlight on a plate of silver; Your footsteps, the seeding-place of lilies; Your ...
Your voice is like bells over roofs at dawn When a bird flies And the sky changes to a fresher ...
Send sunflowers! With my turkey-bone whistle I am calling the birds To sing upon the sunflowers. For when the clouds ...
Spread on the roadway, With open-blown jackets, Like black, soaring pinions, They swoop down the hillside, The Cyclists. Seeming dark-plumaged ...
The tall yellow hollyhocks stand, Still and straight, With their round blossoms spread open, In the quiet sunshine. And still ...
I How fresh the Dartle's little waves that day! A steely silver, underlined with blue, And flashing where the round ...
What charm is yours, you faded old-world tapestries, Of outworn, childish mysteries, Vague pageants woven on a web of dream! ...
I How the slates of the roof sparkle in the sun, over there, over there, beyond the high wall! How ...
Wild little bird, who chose thee for a sign To put upon the cover of this book? Who heard thee ...
There once was a man whom the gods didn't love, And a disagreeable man was he. He loathed his neighbours, ...
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
This little bowl is like a mossy pool In a Spring wood, where dogtooth violets grow Nodding in chequered sunshine ...
I Hoops Blue and pink sashes, Criss-cross shoes, Minna and Stella run out into the garden To play at hoop. ...
April had covered the hills With flickering yellows and reds, The sparkle and coolness of snow Was blown from the ...
At first a mere thread of a footpath half blotted out by the grasses Sweeping triumphant across it, it wound ...
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