The Last Quarter of the Moon (Amy Lowell Poem)
How long shall I tarnish the mirror of life, A spatter of rust on its polished steel! The seasons reel ...
How long shall I tarnish the mirror of life, A spatter of rust on its polished steel! The seasons reel ...
1 You said 'The world is going back to Paganism'. Oh bright Vision! I saw our dynasty in the bar ...
Sometimes you hear, fifth-hand, As epitaph: He chucked up everything And just cleared off, And always the voice will sound ...
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the ...
"Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam." The old South Boston Aquarium stands in a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
Lord, how couldst thou so much appease Thy wrath for sin, as when man's sight was dim, And could see ...
Foundered March 24. 1878 1 The Eurydice-it concerned thee, O Lord: Three hundred souls, O alas! on board, Some asleep ...
The visual texture the fallen branch, before she grabbed it wielded it like a sword Down on the ground crouch ...
An extra precious moment of peace stopping the back and forth of my day crouch down before her, as she ...
House ablaze, hissing, dying Crimson anguish My daughter upstairs, alone Helpless Firetruck - red, loud, racing, screech HELP ME! MY ...
For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole ...
Not with a Club, the Heart is broken Nor with a Stone -- A Whip so small you could not ...
Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? Then crouch within the door -- Red -- is the Fire's ...
I never told the buried gold Upon the hill -- that lies -- I saw the sun -- his plunder ...
When I close my eyes I cannot reconstruct your face but the three-dimensional solidity or you bursts through the tissues ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
(A Virginia Legend.) The Planting of the Hemp. Captain Hawk scourged clean the seas (Black is the gap below the ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat- Found the ...
Half squatter, half tenant (no rent)- a sort of inheritance; white, in your thirties now, and supposed to supply me ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
Crouch'd on the pavement close by Belgrave Square A tramp I saw, ill, moody, and tongue-tied; A babe was in ...
I GAT your letter, winsome Willie; Wi' gratefu' heart I thank you brawlie; Tho' I maun say't, I wad be ...
I. I stand on the mark beside the shore Of the first white pilgrim's bended knee, Where exile turned to ...
Earth's winter cometh And I being part of all And sith the spirit of all moveth in me I must ...
ONE night we were together, you and I, And had unsown Assyria for a lair, Before the walls of Babylon ...
WHEN by Zeus relenting the mandate was revoked, Sentencing to exile the bright Sun-God, Mindful were the ploughmen of who ...
Oh for the swords of former time! Oh for the men who bore them, When, arm'd for Right, they stood ...
But therewith the sun rose upward and lightened all the earth, And the light flashed up to the heavens from ...
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