Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (Amy Lowell Poem)
A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran ...
A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran ...
(For Warren Winslow, Dead At Sea) Let man have dominion over the fishes of the sea and the fowls of ...
(For Eleanor Rogers Cox) For blows on the fort of evil That never shows a breach, For terrible life-long races ...
Dim dawn behind the tamerisks -- the sky is saffron-yellow -- As the women in the village grind the corn, ...
I. Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye! They could not in the self-same mansion ...
In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their ...
Then one of the judges of the city stood forth and said, "Speak to us of Crime and Punishment." And ...
Those who would become disciples tired, dirty, after a night, fruitless toil meeting Jesus on the shore a crowd close ...
The loving hands of the gardener adding water, sunshine, rich fertile soil to nourish, nurture, grow the seeds plants by ...
A different messiah without armies or power came to be planted in the soil of the owner given love and ...
Some much meaning layers of meaning in the words of a fruitless fig bearing fruit in the minds of the ...
A tree, not bearing fruit A landowner impatient, ready to pass judgment, A gardener, ready to work, asking for more ...
Fruitless figs in the yard of the landowner ready for the ax not living to their potential with loving hands ...
JOHN courts Perrette; but all in vain; Love's sweetest oaths, and tears, and sighs All potent spells her heart to ...
WITH such a Pulse, with such disorder'd Veins, Such lab'ring Breath, as thy Disease constrains; With failing Eyes, that scarce ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
In falling Timbers buried -- There breathed a Man -- Outside -- the spades -- were plying -- The Lungs ...
Captain AJ Shout, VC, MC, MID (& bar), who died at Gallipoli of wounds and was posthumously awarded the VC, ...
Next the Son, the Stunning-Cantab: He suggested curves of beauty, Curves pervading all his figure, Which the eye might follow ...
From his shoulder Hiawatha Took the camera of rosewood, Made of sliding, folding rosewood; Neatly put it all together. In ...
From his shoulder Hiawatha Took the camera of rosewood, Made of sliding, folding rosewood; Neatly put it all together. In ...
IF chance some pensive stranger, hither led, His bosom glowing from majestic views, The gorgeous dome, or the proud landscape's ...
ON these white cliffs, that calm above the flood Rear their o'er-shadowing heads, and at their feet Scarce hear the ...
On these white cliffs, that calm above the flood Uplift their shadowing heads, and, at their feet, Scarce hear the ...
Now is the time for the burning of the leaves, They go to the fire; the nostrils prick with smoke ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
NOT in scorn do I reprove thee, Not in pride thy vows I waive, But, believe, I could not love ...
(Halted around the fire by night, after moon-set, they sing this beneath the trees.) What light of unremembered skies Hast ...
O! had my Fate been join'd with thine, As once this pledge appear'd a token, These follies had not, then, ...
'Not by the justice that my father spurn'd, Not for the thousands whom my father slew, Altars unfed and temples ...
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