The Red Lacquer Music-Stand (Amy Lowell Poem)
A music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since brought In some fast clipper-ship from China, quaintly wrought With bossed and carven ...
A music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since brought In some fast clipper-ship from China, quaintly wrought With bossed and carven ...
In the brown water, Thick and silver-sheened in the sunshine, Liquid and cool in the shade of the reeds, A ...
Paul Jannes was working very late, For this watch must be done by eight To-morrow or the Cardinal Would certainly ...
I Hoops Blue and pink sashes, Criss-cross shoes, Minna and Stella run out into the garden To play at hoop. ...
Walking around in the park Should feel better than work: The lake, the sunshine, The grass to lie on, Blurred ...
Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone, Their proper habits vaguely shown As jointed ...
They lie, the men who tell us for reasons of their own That want is here a stranger, and that ...
I love the evenings, passionless and fair, I love the evens, Whether old manor-fronts their ray with golden fulgence leavens, ...
I He would drink by himself And raise a weathered thumb Towards the high shelf, Calling another rum And blackcurrant, ...
I I saw a slowly-stepping train -- Lined on the brows, scoop-eyed and bent and hoar -- Following in files ...
Stirs its ashes and embers, its burnt sticks An eye powdered over, half melted and solid again Ponders Ideas that ...
The man held his hands to his heart as he danced. He slacked and swirled. The doorways of the little ...
Night fell over North Lebanon and snow was covering the villages surrounded by the Kadeesha Valley, giving the fields and ...
Though they are flawed human motives blurred maybe not so pure of heart as the one who climbed the cross ...
A heavenly grace rained on me there on that dusty road to Emmaus a grace I have seen in little ...
From art to law from beauty to pain a life with twists and turns bringing him home and bringing him ...
My eyes welled up Tears rolled down my cheeks As the choir sang Of God's Love and His forgiveness Vision ...
Others taught me with having knelt at well-curbs Always wrong to the light, so never seeing Deeper down in the ...
Even from afar came shouts of recognition joyful voices rang across the years disdained and faces of our childhood unforgot ...
While you walk the water's edge, turning over concepts I can't envision, the honking buoy serves notice that at any ...
1) Sleeping birds, lead me, soft birds, be me inside this black room, back of the white moon. In the ...
"But, sir," I said, "they tell me the man is like to die!" The Canon shook his head indulgently. "Young ...
"Ah, did you once see Shelley plain?" -- Browning. "Shelley? Oh, yes, I saw him often then," The old man ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
Ill lay he long, upon this last return, unvisited. The doctors put everything in the hospital into reluctant Henry and ...
Nature is a temple where the living pillars Let go sometimes a blurred speech- A Forest of symbols passes through ...
I. Oh, what a dawn of day! How the March sun feels like May! All is blue again After last ...
Well, as you say, we live for small horizons: We move in crowds, we flow and talk together, Seeing so ...
He Fill your bowl with roses: the bowl, too, have of crystal. Sit at the western window. Take the sun ...
It was taken some time ago. At first it seems to be a smeared print: blurred lines and grey flecks ...
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