The Captured Goddess (Amy Lowell Poem)
Over the housetops, Above the rotating chimney-pots, I have seen a shiver of amethyst, And blue and cinnamon have flickered ...
Over the housetops, Above the rotating chimney-pots, I have seen a shiver of amethyst, And blue and cinnamon have flickered ...
When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights; -- When the ...
Sing, O Song of Hiawatha, Of the happy days that followed, In the land of the Ojibways, In the pleasant ...
I. HOw comes the Day orecast ? the Flaming Sun Darkn'd at Noon, as if his Course were run ? ...
On Fridays he'd open a can of Jax After coming home from the mill, & ask me to write a ...
Somewhere thou awaitest, And I, with lips unkissed, Weep that thus to latest Thou puttest off our tryst! The golden ...
Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark of the moon; daylight or moonlight They could not tell where ...
Anthea laugh'd, and, fearing lest excess Might stretch the cords of civil comeliness She with a dainty blush rebuked her ...
yesterday the man was pleased the sun sat in the tree and all upon the land held to the harmony ...
i have lost touch over the years with the hot africa inside me illness and all - i spread to ...
Now the storm begins to lower, (Haste, the loom of Hell prepares!) Iron-sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened ...
Needing to cut loose the cords, the tethers all that binds us here to the earth Let go of our ...
Higher far, Upward, into the pure realm, Over sun or star, Over the flickering Dæmon film, Thou must mount for ...
'Twas warm -- at first -- like Us -- Until there crept upon A Chill -- like frost upon a ...
A part, immutable, unseen, Being, before itself had been, Became. Like dew a triple queen Shone as the void uncovered: ...
A part, immutable, unseen, Being, before itself had been, Became. Like dew a triple queen Shone as the void uncovered: ...
I mourn with thee and yet rejoice That thou shouldst sorrow so; With Angel choirs I join my voice To ...
O constellations of the early night, That sparkled brighter as the twilight died, And made the darkness glorious! I have ...
"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 ...
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
We walked beside the sea, After a day which perished silently Of its own glory---like the Princess weird Who, combating ...
1. But Los saw the Female & pitied He embrac'd her, she wept, she refus'd In perverse and cruel delight ...
1. In terrors Los shrunk from his task: His great hammer fell from his hand: His fires beheld, and sickening, ...
1. Urizen explor'd his dens Mountain, moor, & wilderness, With a globe of fire lighting his journey A fearful journey, ...
But in the Wine-presses the human grapes sing not nor dance: They howl and writhe in shoals of torment, in ...
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like ...
In Sleeping Beauty's castle the clock strikes one hundred years and the girl in the tower returns to the world. ...
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