The Promise of the Morning Star (Amy Lowell Poem)
Thou father of the children of my brain By thee engendered in my willing heart, How can I thank thee ...
Thou father of the children of my brain By thee engendered in my willing heart, How can I thank thee ...
A face seen passing in a crowded street, A voice heard singing music, large and free; And from that moment ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
The big teetotum twirls, And epochs wax and wane As chance subsides or swirls; But of the loss and gain ...
Wild air, world-mothering air, Nestling me everywhere, That each eyelash or hair Girdles; goes home betwixt The fleeciest, frailest-flixed Snowflake; ...
NOT a line of her writing have I, Not a thread of her hair, No mark of her late time ...
at news of her death Not a line of her writing have I Not a thread of her hair, No ...
When they cried out for freedom marching in protest retribution from the madman denying them human rights The people only ...
EXAMPLE often proves of sov'reign use; At other times it cherishes abuse; 'Tis not my purpose, howsoe'er, to tell Which ...
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
As other men, so I myself do muse Why in this sort I wrest invention so, And why these giddy ...
Two -- were immortal twice -- The privilege of few -- Eternity -- obtained -- in Time -- Reversed Divinity ...
I think to Live -- may be a Bliss To those who dare to try -- Beyond my limit to ...
I sometimes drop it, for a Quick -- The Thought to be alive -- Anonymous Delight to know -- And ...
My life closed twice before its close -- It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to ...
To the tune "Courtyard Filled with Fragrance" Fragrant grass beside the pond green shade over the hall a clear cold ...
"Me too, perchance, in future days, The sculptured stone shall show, With Paphian myrtle or with bays Parnassian on my ...
Sweet girl! though only once we met, That meeting I shall ne'er forget; And though we ne'er may meet again, ...
Tell it to the forest fire, tell it to the moon, mention it in general to the moon on the ...
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork (This man's-flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a ...
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
I. Let them fight it out, friend! things have gone too far. God must judge the couple: leave them as ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
When I attain to utter forth in verse Some inward thought, my soul throbs audibly Along my pulses, yearning to ...
I. Dead ! One of them shot by the sea in the east, And one of them shot in the ...
Since that I may not have Love on this side the grave, Let me imagine Love. Since not mine is ...
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