Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris (Amy Lowell Poem)
Dear Virgin Mary, far away, Look down from Heaven while I pray. Open your golden casement high, And lean way ...
Dear Virgin Mary, far away, Look down from Heaven while I pray. Open your golden casement high, And lean way ...
Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in ...
On the shores of Gitche Gumee, Of the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood Nokomis, the old woman, Pointing with her finger westward, ...
(For Eleanor Rogers Cox) For blows on the fort of evil That never shows a breach, For terrible life-long races ...
Till I shall come again, let this suffice, I send my salt, my sacrifice To thee, thy lady, younglings, and ...
When mid-autumn's moan shook the night-time, And sedges were horny, And summer's green wonderwork faltered On leaze and in lane, ...
The morn arrived; his footstep quickly scared The gentle sleep that round my senses clung, And I, awak'ning, from my ...
THERE stands on yonder high mountain A castle built of yore, Where once lurked horse and horseman In rear of ...
As a fisher-boy I fared To the black rock in the sea, And, while false gifts I prepared. Listen'd and ...
Where wail the waters in their flaw A spectre wanders to and fro, And evermore that ghostly shore Bemoans the ...
Up yonder in Buena Park There is a famous spot, In legend and in history Yclept the Waller Lot. There ...
Whenas ye plaisaunt Aperille shoures have washed and purged awaye Ye poysons and ye rheums of earth to make a ...
When Stiivoren town was in its prime And queened the Zuyder Zee, Its ships went out to every clime With ...
The glory of ships is an old, old song, since the days when the sea-rovers ran In their open boats ...
Across a thousand miles of sea, a hundred leagues of land, Along a path I had not traced and could ...
Conferring with myself My stranger disappeared Though first upon a berry fat Miraculously fared How paltry looked my cares My ...
Nero was not worried when he heard the prophecy of the Delphic Oracle. "Let him fear the seventy three years." ...
There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
ARRANGING long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we've set ourselves ! How ...
If, in the month of dark December, Leander, who was nightly wont (What maid will not the tale remember?) To ...
They call it stroke. Two we loved were stunned by that same blow of cudgel or axe to the brow. ...
Glion?--Ah, twenty years, it cuts All meaning from a name! White houses prank where once were huts. Glion, but not ...
Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! Vain thy onset! all stands fast. Thou thyself ...
I. ENOUGH ! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were ...
My friend has gone away from me From shadow into perfect light, But leaving a sweet legacy. My heart shall ...
There stands a hostel by a travelled way; Life is the road and Death the worthy host; Each guest he ...
"Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more! Thou hast mocked me, starved me, beat my body sore! ...
God had called us, and we came; Our loved Earth to ashes left; Heaven was a neighbor's house, Open to ...
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
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