The Cremona Violin (Amy Lowell Poem)
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
I. HEre take no Care, take here no Care, my Muse, Nor ought of Art or Labour use: But let ...
One more Unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; ...
I'm mighty glad to see you, Mrs. Curtis, And thank you very kindly for this visit-- Especially now when all ...
Year after year the princess lies asleep Until the hundred years foretold are done, Easily drawing her enchanted breath. Caught ...
The May-pole is up, Now give me the cup; I'll drink to the garlands around it; But first unto those ...
1. Sunlight There was a sunlit absence. The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron, water honeyed in the ...
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
What art thou, SPLEEN, which ev'ry thing dost ape? Thou Proteus to abus'd Mankind, Who never yet thy real Cause ...
To the Almighty on his radiant Throne, Let endless Hallelujas rise! Praise Him, ye wondrous Heights to us unknown, Praise ...
When such a day, blesst the Arcadian plaine, Warm without Sun, and shady without rain, Fann'd by an air, that ...
A slash of Blue -- A sweep of Gray -- Some scarlet patches on the way, Compose an Evening Sky ...
It is a pristine page, clean on the blue screen where I compose, I don't expect it to stay that ...
They had not seen, for ages, such beautiful gifts in Delphi as these that had been sent by the two ...
O God, whose thunder shakes the sky, Whose eye this atom globe surveys, To thee, my only rock, I fly, ...
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use to pray With moving lips or ...
amidst swirling wine and flickers of silver guests quote Dante, Brecht, Kant and each other. I wait in the hall ...
'NO VISITORS' I thumb the roller to and leans against the door. Comfortable in my horseblanket I prop on the ...
I taught myself to live simply and wisely, to look at the sky and pray to God, and to wander ...
Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow ...
UPON 1 a simmer Sunday morn When Nature's face is fair, I walked forth to view the corn, An' snuff ...
In a humble room in London sat a pretty little boy, By the bedside of his sick mother her only ...
I like divorce. I love to compose letters of resignation; now and then I send one in and leave in ...
Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining ...
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
To make a final conquest of all me, Love did compose so sweet an Enemy, In whom both Beauties to ...
Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking Weight does raise; So Man, declining ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
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