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 ...
You ask me to be gay and glad While lurid clouds of danger loom, And vain and bad and gambling ...
By our place in the midst of the furthest seas we were fated to stand alone - When the nations ...
(1) and off to scott's (the dockers' restaurant) burly men packed in round solid tables but what the helle (drowned ...
Seeping into our consciousness the images, the smells the lessons of the cherry blossoms the truths we know so well ...
The sadness heavy hanging down on her a lead cloak draped over her frame Hope turned to sadness weighing her ...
A reminder of mortality in the falling blossoms captured on images the spirit of their nation The ancient screens images ...
In my mind's eye remembering some that I had seen the words on the radio speaking to me In lines ...
Like bolls of color yet falling from the branches the heavy blossoms of the cherry tree Beauty in each cluster ...
Somehow appropriate the imagery of destruction the counterpoint of the blossoms the sacred cherry trees Something precious in the transience ...
Joining in the praying the energy shifting sending our prayers joining with them Lifted up for the people that the ...
For the dead we pray joining with their people sharing the words with them our energy with theirs That they ...
The whole nation the people of their country all of them swept away shaken by the disasters Reeling from the ...
A Thriving Merchant, who no Loss sustained, In little time a mighty Fortune gain'd. No Pyrate seiz'd his still returning ...
You were never told, Mother, how old Illyawas drunk That last holiday, for five days and nights He stumbled through ...
There is a section in my library for death and another for Irish history, a few shelves for the poetry ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
All night they whine upon their ropes and boom against the dock with helpless prows: these little ships that are ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
Close by those meads, for ever crown'd with flow'rs, Where Thames with pride surveys his rising tow'rs, There stands a ...
Kanzo Makame, the diver, sturdy and small Japanee, Seeker of pearls and of pearl-shell down in the depths of the ...
The Boastful Crow and the Laughing Jack Were telling tales of the outer back: "I've just been travelling far and ...
Even as we speak, there's a smoker's cough from behind the whitethorn hedge: we stop dead in our tracks; a ...
I sleep a lot and read St. Thomas Aquinas Or The Death of God (that's a Protestant book). To the ...
The wide Pacific waters And the Atlantic meet. With cries of joy they mingle, In tides of love they greet. ...
AN ARGUMENT FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND GOODWILL WITH THE JAPANESE PEOPLE Glossary for the uninstructed and the hasty: ...
'Tis not too late to build our young land right, Cleaner than Holland, courtlier than Japan, Devout like early Rome, ...
"If I could set the moon upon This table," said my friend, "Among the standard poets And brouchures without end, ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories