Lead Soldiers (Amy Lowell Poem)
The nursery fire burns brightly, crackling in cheerful little explosions and trails of sparks up the back of the chimney. ...
The nursery fire burns brightly, crackling in cheerful little explosions and trails of sparks up the back of the chimney. ...
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
For Ann London As you described your mastectomy in calm detail and bared your chest so I might see the ...
The picture on the bulletin the devastation caught in miniature a handful of people standing before a bit of rubble ...
In the rocks, the ledge, the outcropping of the glacier below the cliffs, the lighthouse small tidepools bits of warming ...
At the high tide mark at the place between the tides small shells, small stones beach glass made smooth in ...
Tightly wrapped, as she was so recently inside her mother's womb curled up in her father's arms matching bracelets, letting ...
The cluster of clover as a child's hands, small, living in miniature the tuft of green the large plant they ...
The tiny clump of clover, a drop of rain a pearl nestled in the triune shapes in miniature the bouquet ...
A meadow aglow In the quiet dusk Sitting on the porch Drawn to the field Mason jar in hand Lid ...
In the dirt in the space under the pines A town planner toils roads and structures stone walls of gravel ...
When I am in New York, I like to drop around at night, To visit with my honest, genial friends, ...
Once when the snow of the year was beginning to fall, We stopped by a mountain pasture to say 'Whose ...
The Sphynx is drowsy, Her wings are furled, Her ear is heavy, She broods on the world.? "Who'll tell me ...
The Sphinx is drowsy, Her wings are furled: Her ear is heavy, She broods on the world. "Who'll tell me ...
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The ...
She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness as she paused just inside the double glass doors to survey the room, ...
The Trees like Tassels -- hit -- and swung -- There seemed to rise a Tune From Miniature Creatures Accompanying ...
Today we woke up to a revolution of snow, its white flag waving over everything, the landscape vanished, not a ...
This girlchild was born as usual and presented dolls that did pee-pee and miniature GE stoves and irons and wee ...
The little box gets her first teeth And her little length Little width little emptiness And all the rest she ...
This salt in the saltcellar I once saw in the salt mines. I know you won't believe me, but it ...
Sleeping-bagged in a duplex wing with fleas, in rock-cleft or building radar bats are darkness in miniature, their whole face ...
"Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The ...
Another armored animal--scale lapping scale with spruce-cone regularity until they form the uninterrupted central tail-row! This near artichoke with head ...
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...
A blue jay poses on a stake meant to support an apple tree newly planted. A strong wind on this ...
"Order A. P. Hill to prepare for battle." "Tell Major Hawks to advance the Commissary train." "Let us cross the ...
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