The Fruit Shop (Amy Lowell Poem)
Cross-ribboned shoes; a muslin gown, High-waisted, girdled with bright blue; A straw poke bonnet which hid the frown She pluckered ...
Cross-ribboned shoes; a muslin gown, High-waisted, girdled with bright blue; A straw poke bonnet which hid the frown She pluckered ...
An arid daylight shines along the beach Dried to a grey monotony of tone, And stranded jelly-fish melt soft upon ...
The tree of knowledge was the tree of reason. That's why the taste of it drove us from Eden. That ...
One day old Trooper Campbell Rode out to Blackman's Run, His cap-peak and his sabre Were glancing in the sun. ...
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
Come to me, O ye children! For I hear you at your play, And the questions that perplexed me Have ...
I am heaping the bones of the old mother To build us a hold against the host of the air; ...
I know the rules and hear myself agree Not to invest beyond this one night stand. I know your patter: ...
Spring wafts up the smell of bus exhaust, of bread and fried potatoes, tips green on the branches, repeats old ...
By Mellstock Lodge and Avenue Towards her door I went, And sunset on her window-panes Reflected our intent. The creeper ...
peaches exude this thrall - reminders of those luscious whereabouts that lips best find their precious sips to cry let ...
And now it was evening. And Almitra the seeress said, "Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit ...
Where did you go, The person I met? Did you get lost, Or caught in a net? ***** Where did ...
On the mountain that day something profound changed changed forever, always turning his face to prepare for the journey to ...
The clay of the Son God, Emmanuel fired in God's light hardened on the mountaintop Prepared for his journey the ...
Ever let me be clay never hardened to break ever pliable to your touch to the leading of your hands ...
Hidden in the house apart not venturing far from home the disciples waiting expectantly just as the master said Timid, ...
Hardened and solemn Christ in that moment a flinty visage his face set on Jerusalem Going, forever changed no longer ...
Standing before our maker God, the Lord eternal responding to the call of God "Here I am. Send me." Volunteering ...
In referencing the death of the king anchoring his moment, epiphany when he saw the Lord, seated on his throne ...
Surely, not I, slyly, smugly said he who was, who was to betray As if still not understanding who it ...
The warmth of your hands the feel of your touch, your care your strength, your love turning the wheel, the ...
My life, clay on the wheel feeling the touch of the potter molding, reshaping, changing me constantly pliable, moist, never ...
He didn't die in the whirlpool by the mill where he had fallen in after a wild chase by all ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
Rose, harsh rose, marred and with stint of petals, meagre flower, thin, sparse of leaf, more precious than a wet ...
Whether they have forgotten Or are forgetting now Or never remembered -- Safer not to know -- Miseries of conjecture ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
Si credere dignum est.--Virgil, Georgics, III, 390 Oh, worthy of belief I hold it was, Virgil, your legend in those ...
All afternoon the tree shadows, accelerating, lengthened till sunset shot them black into infinity: next morning darkness returned from the ...
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