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 ...
I. HEre take no Care, take here no Care, my Muse, Nor ought of Art or Labour use: But let ...
TEll me thou safest End of all our Woe, Why wreched Mortals do avoid thee so: Thou gentle drier o'th' ...
St. Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through ...
Come pity us, all ye who see Our harps hung on the willow-tree; Come pity us, ye passers-by, Who see ...
Where once we danced, where once we sang, Gentlemen, The floors are sunken, cobwebs hang, And cracks creep; worms have ...
WHERE now these mingled ruins lie A temple once to Bacchus rose, Beneath whose roof, aspiring high, Full many a ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
LOVE, thou art best of Human Joys, Our chiefest Happiness below; All other Pleasures are but Toys, Musick without Thee ...
Tis true of courage I'm no mistress No Boadicia nor Thalestriss Nor shall I e'er be famed hereafter For such ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
To such as say thy love I overprize, And do not stick to term my praises folly, Against these folks, ...
Bright star of beauty, on whose eyelids sit A thousand nymph-like and enamour'd Graces, The Goddesses of Memory and Wit, ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
To hang our head -- ostensibly -- And subsequent, to find That such was not the posture Of our immortal ...
Rehearsal to Ourselves Of a Withdrawn Delight -- Affords a Bliss like Murder -- Omnipotent -- Acute -- We will ...
Nature rarer uses Yellow Than another Hue. Saves she all of that for Sunsets Prodigal of Blue Spending Scarlet, like ...
I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes -- I wonder if It weighs like Mine -- Or ...
THINK not, 'cause men flattering say You're fresh as April, sweet as May, Bright as is the morning star, That ...
GIVE me more love or more disdain ; The torrid or the frozen zone Bring equal ease unto my pain, ...
Give me more love or more disdain; The torrid, or the frozen zone, Bring equal ease unto my pain; The ...
This is the feast of heavenly wine, And God invites to sup; The juices of the living Vine Were press'd ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords. I once read something ...
When stretch'd on one's bed With a fierce-throbbing head, Which preculdes alike thought or repose, How little one cares For ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
If external action is effete and rhyme is outmoded, I shall revert to you, Habakkuk, as when in a Bible ...
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