The Precinct. Rochester (Amy Lowell Poem)
The tall yellow hollyhocks stand, Still and straight, With their round blossoms spread open, In the quiet sunshine. And still ...
The tall yellow hollyhocks stand, Still and straight, With their round blossoms spread open, In the quiet sunshine. And still ...
You call me courageous, I who grew up gnawing on books, as some kids gnaw on bubble gum, who married ...
The sun was slumbering in the West, My daily labors past; On Anna's soft and gentle breast My head reclined ...
And your sunny years with a gracious wife Have brought you a daughter dear. "I watched her to-day; a more ...
Shall I move the flowers again? Shall I put them further to the left into the light? Win that fix ...
Under this loop of honeysuckle, A creeping, coloured caterpillar, I gnaw the fresh green hawthorn spray, I nibble it leaf ...
Now that they've got it settled whose I be, I'm going to tell them something they won't like: They've got ...
The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In lovinge, how his ...
Here among long-discarded cassocks, Damp stools, and half-split open hassocks, Here where the vicar never looks I nibble through old ...
...and when "the future" is uttered, swarms of mice rush out of the Russian language and gnaw a piece of ...
O SHADOWY Beauty mine, when thou shalt sleep In the deep heart of a black marble tomb; When thou for ...
I love the naked ages long ago When statues were gilded by Apollo, When men and women of agility Could ...
AS on the banks o' wandering Nith, Ae smiling simmer morn I stray'd, And traced its bonie howes and haughs, ...
MY curse upon your venom'd stang, That shoots my tortur'd gums alang, An' thro' my lug gies mony a twang, ...
HAIL, Poesie! thou Nymph reserv'd! In chase o' thee, what crowds hae swerv'd Frae common sense, or sunk enerv'd 'Mang ...
GUID-MORNIN' to our Majesty! May Heaven augment your blisses On ev'ry new birth-day ye see, A humble poet wishes. My ...
at the track today, Father's Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a little surprise. ...
Take it away, and swallow it yourself. Ha! Look you, there's a rat. Last night there were a dozen on ...
Under a sky the color of pea soup she is looking at her work growing away there actively, thickly like ...
Eupatius thought: "Give him a thousand horses, a thousand bridles of eloquent gold. Wash his feet, feed him well, show ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
OH, Prue she has a patient man, And Joan a gentle lover, And Agatha's Arth' is a hug-the-hearth, But my ...
I. THE LION The Lion is a kingly beast. He likes a Hindu for a feast. And if no Hindu ...
(Written with the hope that the socialists might yet dethrone Kaiser and Czar.) Here's to the mice that scare the ...
[How different people and different animals look upon the moon: showing that each creature finds in it his own mood ...
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