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 ...
A music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since brought In some fast clipper-ship from China, quaintly wrought With bossed and carven ...
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
High up in the apple tree climbing I go, With the sky above me, the earth below. Each branch is ...
April had covered the hills With flickering yellows and reds, The sparkle and coolness of snow Was blown from the ...
Ah, well! but the case seems hopeless, and the pen might write in vain; The people gabble of old things ...
My mother-- preferring the strange to the tame: Dove-note, bone marrow, deer dung, Frog's belly distended with finny young, Leaf-mould ...
In the land of my ancestors by the ruins, going down to the shore the waters of the loch against ...
Out behind our yard in the far right corner just to the right beyond the boundary, the fences a disturbed ...
Three clear anchors Thrust into living flesh glint in the spring light Left to rust Piercings, Scars - Sentries to ...
A glint of gossamer Single strand, Bowed in the wind Tethered to branch and bench Undulating, snapping Refracting when still ...
Good editor Dana--God bless him, we say-- Will soon be afloat on the main, Will be steaming away Through the ...
If you start out every day in the same old gloomy way it's little wonder what other people think of ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
'Of course,' I said, 'we cannot hope to find What we are looking for in anyone; They glitter, maybe, but ...
A glint of her hair or a flash of her shoulder - That is the most I can boast to ...
When you were there, and you, and you, Happiness crowned the night; I too, Laughing and looking, one of all, ...
(France -- Ancient Regime.) I. Go away! Go away; I will not confess to you! His black biretta clings like ...
The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits, The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern gates, ...
From Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning, please come flying. In a cloud of fiery pale chemicals, ...
A Song of the Great Retreat Dreary lay the long road, dreary lay the town, Lights out and never a ...
The gh comes from rough, the o from women's, and the ti from unmentionables--presto: there's the perfect English instance of ...
Once in a while a curious weed unknown to me, Needing a name from my books; Once in a while ...
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
The idea danced before us as a flag; The sound of martial music; The thrill of carrying a gun; Advancement ...
I. My face resembles your face less and less each day. When I was young no one mistook whose child ...
What the Carpenter Said THE moon's a cottage with a door. Some folks can see it plain. Look, you may ...
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