The Boston Athenaeum (Amy Lowell Poem)
Thou dear and well-loved haunt of happy hours, How often in some distant gallery, Gained by a little painful spiral ...
Thou dear and well-loved haunt of happy hours, How often in some distant gallery, Gained by a little painful spiral ...
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
I Saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like Silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would ...
Reader! what soul that laoves a verse can see The spring return, nor glow like you and me? Hear the ...
Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows ' flaunt forth, then chevy on an air- built thoroughfare: heaven-roysterers, in gay-gangs ' they ...
Not all thy flushing suns are set, Herrick, as yet ; Nor doth this far-drawn hemisphere Frown and look sullen ...
Ablaze this morning looking out my window the sun coming down burning off the clouds the roadway beyond through the ...
Not for credit, not to show off not to be seen as pious She said it simply, in response to ...
Deep into summer July green sky, dark clouds late afternoon wet ivy under the canopy up the two-story elm clinging, ...
It was the white breast of the raptor, stoic in the aged tree sitting motionless, drinking in the light of ...
In spite of all the learn'd have said; I still my old opinion keep, The posture, that we give the ...
The house had gone to bring again To the midnight sky a sunset glow. Now the chimney was all of ...
Now in the oak the sap of life is welling, Tho' to the bough the rusty leafage clings; Now on ...
A soft veil dims the tender skies, And half conceals from pensive eyes The bronzing tokens of the fall; A ...
New feet within my garden go -- New fingers stir the sod -- A Troubadour upon the Elm Betrays the ...
The turquoise pool rose up to meet us, its slide a silver afterthought down which we plunged, screaming, into a ...
Huge elm, with rifted trunk all notched and scarred, Like to a warrior's destiny! I love To stretch me often ...
Old Elm that murmured in our chimney top The sweetest anthem autumn ever made And into mellow whispering calms would ...
(with apologies to Frederic Taber Cooper) I well recall (and who does not) The circus bill-board hippopotamus, whose wide distended ...
I wanted to see the self, so I looked at the mulberry. It had no trouble accepting its limits, yet ...
Fair was the evening and brightly the sun Was shining on desert and grove, Sweet were the breezes and balmy ...
IF thou be in a lonely place, If one hour's calm be thine, As Evening bends her placid face O'er ...
It is a sultry day; the sun has drank The dew that lay upon the morning grass, There is no ...
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
Spot of my youth! whose hoary branches sigh, Swept by the breeze that fans thy cloudless sky; Where now alone ...
AS on the banks o' wandering Nith, Ae smiling simmer morn I stray'd, And traced its bonie howes and haughs, ...
About the size of an old-style dollar bill, American or Canadian, mostly the same whites, gray greens, and steel grays ...
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