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 ...
Let me be at the place of the castle. Let the castle be within me. Let it rise foursquare from ...
It was built of bark and poles, and the floor was full of holes Where each leak in rainy weather ...
"Give me of your bark, O Birch-tree! Of your yellow bark, O Birch-tree! Growing by the rushing river, Tall and ...
When I compare What I have lost with what I have gained, What I have missed with what attained, Little ...
There are three degrees of bliss At the foot of Allah's Throne And the highest place is his Who saves ...
"For here lay the excellent wisdom of him that built Mansoul, thatthe walls could never be broken down nor hurt ...
To the Heavens above us O look and behold The Planets that love us All harnessed in gold! What chariots, ...
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
Thrice, and above, blest, my soul's half, art thou, In thy both last and better vow; Could'st leave the city, ...
Then one of the judges of the city stood forth and said, "Speak to us of Crime and Punishment." And ...
All of creation everything that breaths from the lowest to the highest a chorus of praise singing, shouting all manner ...
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
WHEN the wind works against us in the dark, And pelts with snow The lowest chamber window on the east, ...
The sky is cloudy, yellowed by the smoke. For view there are the houses opposite Cutting the sky with one ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
Indeed. These jagged crevasses of the psyche are treacherous, gray. Extending two hundred plus days in every direction; an ominous ...
"Why shouldn't I have a purely vegetarian drink? Why shouldn't I take vegetables in their highest form, so to speak? ...
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
I TRUTH is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost ...
Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the ...
'TWAS even-the dewy fields were green, On every blade the pearls hang; The zephyr wanton'd round the bean, And bore ...
Said a people to a poet---" Go out from among us straightway! While we are thinking earthly things, thou singest ...
Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed And worthy of acceptation. Fire is bright, Let temple burn, or flax; an ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
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, ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
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