The Starling (Amy Lowell Poem)
"`I can't get out', said the starling." Sterne's `Sentimental Journey'. Forever the impenetrable wall Of self confines my poor rebellious ...
"`I can't get out', said the starling." Sterne's `Sentimental Journey'. Forever the impenetrable wall Of self confines my poor rebellious ...
We have a small sculpture of Henry James on our terrace in New York City. Nothing would surprise him. The ...
I'm mighty glad to see you, Mrs. Curtis, And thank you very kindly for this visit-- Especially now when all ...
Precision Real precision No, real precision No, we mean it, real precision Characters, spaces, abbreviations, italics Statutes, reporters, Secondary sources ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
The wind Undecided Rolls a cigarette of air The mute girl talks: It is art's imperfection. This impenetrable speech. The ...
Calm, sad, secure; behind high convent walls, These watch the sacred lamp, these watch and pray: And it is one ...
Beyond Siberia again Siberia, beyond impenetrable forest again forest. And beyond it waste ground, where a blizzard of snow breaks ...
Recite the loves of Narva and Mored The priest of Chalma's triple idol said. High from the ground the youthful ...
Almighty Framer of the Skies! O let our pure devotion rise, Like Incense in thy Sight! Wrapt in impenetrable Shade ...
I remember, it was a morning, in summer, The window was half-open, I drew near, I could see my father ...
What I hope (when I hope) is that we'll see each other again,-- . . . and again reach the ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
Titan! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that gods ...
There are too many waterfalls here; the crowded streams hurry too rapidly down to the sea, and the pressure of ...
From narrow provinces of fish and bread and tea, home of the long tides where the bay leaves the sea ...
I have enough treasures from the past to last me longer than I need, or want. You know as well ...
I We thrill too strangely at the master's touch; We shrink too sadly from the larger self Which for its ...
I've wiped your face off my face Ripped your shadow off my shadow Leveled the hills in you Turned your ...
It's akin to visiting my foster mother, today, That I am returning to you, mother city, after twenty years, I ...
Barely a twelvemonth after The seven days war that put the world to sleep, Late in the evening the strange ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
When I too long have looked upon your face, Wherein for me a brightness unobscured Save by the mists of ...
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