Miscast I (Amy Lowell Poem)
I have whetted my brain until it is like a Damascus blade, So keen that it nicks off the floating ...
I have whetted my brain until it is like a Damascus blade, So keen that it nicks off the floating ...
The Bell in the convent tower swung. High overhead the great sun hung, A navel for the curving sky. The ...
After a Print by George Cruikshank It was a gusty night, With the wind booming, and swooping, Looping round corners, ...
1 I move my hand over slopes, falls, lumps of sight, Lashes barely able to be touched, Lips that give ...
Er-Heb beyond the Hills of Ao-Safai Bears witness to the truth, and Ao-Safai Hath told the men of Gorukh. Thence ...
(From The Jungle Book) Here we go in a flung festoon, Half-way up to the jealous moon! Don't you envy ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
a lion at the door swallowed the day broken with spite at the inevitable chorus of pop songs sutured for ...
i can see through the blue dress when you stand in the doorway - the light come indoors softly like ...
The beach different not coarse sand of rocky outcroppings smooth stones glistening at the water's edge Polished smooth contours not ...
The elegant maple arms, almost equal an arc, a spray of flowers, a bow, curved against the sky arms of ...
It was the white breast of the raptor, stoic in the aged tree sitting motionless, drinking in the light of ...
Memory: I can take my head and strike it on a wall on Cumberland Island Where the night tide came ...
Like Rain it sounded till it curved And then I new 'twas Wind -- It walked as wet as any ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
With saddest music all day long She soothed her secret sorrow: At night she sighed "I fear 'twas wrong Such ...
I wonder how it all got started, this business about seeing your life flash before your eyes while you drown, ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
In the same dream I am lying in the hollow of a boat, My forehead and eyes against the curved ...
I Hot through Troy's ruin Menelaus broke To Priam's palace, sword in hand, to sate On that adulterous whore a ...
Gods, what a black, fierce day! The clouds were iron, Wrenched to strange, rugged shapes; the red sun winked Over ...
There is darkness behind the light -- and the pale light drips Cold on vague shapes and figures, that, half-seen ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
CARRYING bouquet, and handkerchief, and gloves, Proud of her height as when she lived, she moves With all the careless ...
No, I shall not say why it is that I love you- Why do you ask me, save for vanity? ...
Through grass, through amber'd cornfields, our slow Stream-- Fringed with its flags and reeds and rushes tall, And Meadowsweet, the ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
When our two souls stand up erect and strong, Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher, Until the lengthening ...
She is large and matronly And rather dirty, A little sardonic-looking, as if domesticity had driven her to it. Though ...
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