Lead Soldiers (Amy Lowell Poem)
The nursery fire burns brightly, crackling in cheerful little explosions and trails of sparks up the back of the chimney. ...
The nursery fire burns brightly, crackling in cheerful little explosions and trails of sparks up the back of the chimney. ...
Choice of you shuts up that peacock-fan The future was, in which temptingly spread All that elaborative nature can. Matchless ...
When the heavy sand is yielding backward from your blistered feet, And across the distant timber you can SEE the ...
When the heavy sand is yielding backward from your blistered feet, And across the distant timber you can SEE the ...
Full of wrath was Hiawatha When he came into the village, Found the people in confusion, Heard of all the ...
Forth upon the Gitche Gumee, On the shining Big-Sea-Water, With his fishing-line of cedar, Of the twisted bark of cedar, ...
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
Sing, O Song of Hiawatha, Of the happy days that followed, In the land of the Ojibways, In the pleasant ...
"Speak! speak I thou fearful guest Who, with thy hollow breast Still in rude armor drest, Comest to daunt me! ...
I O the opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea, And the woman riding high above with bright ...
I hardly remember your voice, but the pain of you floats in some remote current of my blood. I carry ...
[Goethe describes this much-admired Poem, which he wrote in honour of his love Lily, as being "designed to change his ...
In the fairy tale the sky makes of itself a coat because it needs you to put it on. How ...
I have put on my great coat it is cold. It is an outer garment. Coarse, woolen. Of unknown origin. ...
AN IDYLL Back from the Somme two Fusiliers Limped painfully home; the elder said, S. "Robert, I've lived three thousand ...
I hardly remember your voice, but the pain of you floats in some remote current of my blood. I carry ...
Her work, her creation, trembling shuddering at the onslaught the bombs bursting all around, against the glass shattering against the ...
A burst of familiar motion racing down from the chancel to my pew A very serious angel needing to go ...
Flapping in the cold wind the grey skies, the feel of winter so soon the flagpole out of the small ...
The hawk swooped down falling talons first, down from the sky, out of the blue across my field of vision, ...
Rising and falling together undulating across the sky from left to right out over the river, just feet above me ...
Anthony, Oh Anthony Why didn't you pass the test At the wheel Crash, "not exactly" Red stuff on the water ...
for tess Tonight there's a crowd in my head: all the things you are not yet. You are words without ...
I Once, only once, I saw it clear, -- That Eden every human heart has dreamed A hundred times, but ...
"Every time we get a big gale around here some people just refuse to batten down." we estimate that ice ...
Look at this storm, the idiot, pouring its heart out here, of all places, an industrial suburb on a Sunday, ...
And then life; and once again A house where I was born. Around us The granary above what once had ...
Gaily into Ruislip Gardens Runs the red electric train, With a thousand Ta's and Pardon's Daintily alights Elaine; Hurries down ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
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