Before Dawn (Amy Lowell Poem)
Life! Austere arbiter of each man's fate, By whom he learns that Nature's steadfast laws Are as decrees immutable; O ...
Life! Austere arbiter of each man's fate, By whom he learns that Nature's steadfast laws Are as decrees immutable; O ...
Only one old post is standing -- Solid yet, but only one -- Where the milking, and the branding, And ...
One day old Trooper Campbell Rode out to Blackman's Run, His cap-peak and his sabre Were glancing in the sun. ...
You shall hear how Hiawatha Prayed and fasted in the forest, Not for greater skill in hunting, Not for greater ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
A lantern light from deeper in the barn Shone on a man and woman in the door And threw their ...
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
And the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless; let the rocks Groan with continual surges; and behind ...
Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, With the old Moon in her arms ; And I fear, I ...
All afternoon the tree shadows, accelerating, lengthened till sunset shot them black into infinity: next morning darkness returned from the ...
Mist clogs the sunshine. Smoky dwarf houses Hem me round everywhere; A vague dejection Weighs down my soul. Yet, while ...
A Tale "Of Brownyis and of Bogilis full is this Buke." -Gawin Douglas. When chapman billies leave the street, And ...
Oh, greenly and fair in the lands of the sun, The vines of the gourd and the rich melon run, ...
The sky, lazily disdaining to pursue The setting sun, too indolent to hold A lengthened tournament for flashing gold, Passively ...
My dream had never died or lived again. As in some mystic middle state I lay; Seeing I saw not, ...
There was a boy -- not above childish fears -- With steps that faltered now and straining ears, Timid, irresolute, ...
You see, the thing was this way -- there was me, That rode Panopply, the Splendor mare, And Ikey Chambers ...
God! ask me not to record your wonders, I admit the stars and the suns And the countless worlds. But ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
So gradual in those summers was the going of the age it seemed that the long days setting out when ...
In Havana in 1948 I ate fried dog believing it was Peking duck. Later, in Tampa I bunked with an ...
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