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 ...
Leisure, thou goddess of a bygone age, When hours were long and days sufficed to hold Wide-eyed delights and pleasures ...
'T is you that are the music, not your song. The song is but a door which, opening wide, Lets ...
I do not care to talk to you although Your speech evokes a thousand sympathies, And all my being's silent ...
Tired of a landscape known too well when young: The deliberate shallow hills, the boring birds Flying past rocks; tired ...
It was pleasant up the country, City Bushman, where you went, For you sought the greener patches and you travelled ...
Out of childhood into manhood Now had grown my Hiawatha, Skilled in all the craft of hunters, Learned in all ...
A great and glorious thing it is To learn, for seven years or so, The Lord knows what of that ...
The poet wishes well to the divine genius of Purcell and praises him that, whereas other musicians have given utterance ...
Bright noisy streets Unattached and watching The jazz, the sass, The Street, Bourbon Late April Thick with tourists Easy marks ...
Photographs Forgotten, unseen Burst into view Rekindling old memories Moments of time Places smells moods shadows conjured up life through ...
I OBSERVE: "Our sentimental friend the moon! Or possibly (fantastic, I confess) It may be Prester John's balloon Or an ...
If on the closed curtain of my sight My fancy paints thy portrait far away, I see thee still the ...
When down the stair at morning The sunbeams round her float, Sweet rivulets of laughter Are bubbling in her throat; ...
It seldom snowed they said, perhaps they're right although seldom was never in that endless summer which tightened a fiery ...
Impetuously I sprang from bed, Long before lunch was up, That I might drain the dizzy dew From the day's ...
The Frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cry Came loud, -and hark, again! loud as ...
The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon; And, if the sun looks through, 'tis with a face Beamless ...
The frog half fearful jumps across the path, And little mouse that leaves its hole at eve Nimbles with timid ...
To be a great musician you must be a man of moods, You have to be, to understand sonatas and ...
I AM as lovely as a dream in stone, And this my heart where each finds death in turn, Inspires ...
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
SHE wanders in the April woods, That glisten with the fallen shower; She leans her face against the buds, She ...
Many setups. At least as many falls. Winter is paralyzing the country, but not here. Here, the boys are impersonating ...
Of what she said to me that night-no matter. The strange thing came next day. My brain was full of ...
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt, And night ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
Mist clogs the sunshine. Smoky dwarf houses Hem me round everywhere; A vague dejection Weighs down my soul. Yet, while ...
We sow the glebe, we reap the corn, We build the house where we may rest, And then, at moments, ...
When our two souls stand up erect and strong, Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher, Until the lengthening ...
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