The Hammers (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
Life! Austere arbiter of each man's fate, By whom he learns that Nature's steadfast laws Are as decrees immutable; O ...
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
Why didst thou carve thy speech laboriously, And match and blend thy words with curious art? For Song, one saith, ...
WHAT have I done for you, England, my England? What is there I would not do, England, my own? With ...
Sundays too my father got up early And put his clothes on in the blueback cold, then with cracked hands ...
A forward rush by the lamp in the gloom, And we clasped, and almost kissed; But she was not the ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
The Birds reported from the South -- A News express to Me -- A spicy Charge, My little Posts -- ...
Snow beneath whose chilly softness Some that never lay Make their first Repose this Winter I admonish Thee Blanket Wealthier ...
Expectation -- is Contentment -- Gain -- Satiety -- But Satiety -- Conviction Of Necessity Of an Austere trait in ...
We are the vagabonds of time, And rove the yellow autumn days, When all the roads are gray with rime ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
O Liberty, God-gifted-- Young and immortal maid-- In your high hand uplifted, The torch declares your trade. Its crimson menace, ...
Soup should be heralded with a mellow horn, Blowing clear notes of gold against the stars; Strange entrees with a ...
(For G. H.) Say, does that stupid earth Where they have laid her, Bind still her sullen mirth, Mirth which ...
While his wife earned the living, Rabbi Henry studied the Torah, writing commentaries more likely to be burnt than printed. ...
The taxi makes the vegetables fly. 'Dozo kudasai,' I have him wait. Past the bright lake up into the temple, ...
On the great walls of ancient cloisters were nailed Murals displaying Truth the saint, Whose effect, reheating the pious entrails ...
I AM as lovely as a dream in stone, And this my heart where each finds death in turn, Inspires ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
Well, as you say, we live for small horizons: We move in crowds, we flow and talk together, Seeing so ...
'Not by the justice that my father spurn'd, Not for the thousands whom my father slew, Altars unfed and temples ...
Coldly, sadly descends The autumn-evening. The field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of wither'd leaves, and the elms, Fade ...
Through Alpine meadows soft-suffused With rain, where thick the crocus blows, Past the dark forges long disused, The mule-track from ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Aye, but she? Your other sister and my other soul Grave Silence, lovelier Than the three loveliest maidens, what of ...
II I THINK I should have loved you presently, And given in earnest words I flung in jest; And lifted ...
I knew her for a little ghost That in my garden walked; The wall is high-higher than most- And the ...
All afternoon my father drove the country roads between Detroit and Lansing. What he was looking for I never learned, ...
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