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 ...
Sons of the South, awake! arise! Sons of the South, and do. Banish from under your bonny skies Those old-world ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
WE stood by a pond that winter day, And the sun was white, as though chidden of God, And a ...
There once was a bird that lived up in a tree, And all he could whistle was "Fiddle-dee-dee" - A ...
Builder, in building the little house, In every way you may please yourself; But please please me in the kitchen ...
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
There came a wind like a bugle It quivered through the GRASS, And a green chill upon the heat So ...
We, the living, buried deep in selfish grief strive to comprehend the passing of your hour, minds are numbed, aghast ...
Marking time in pencil strokes across a virgin page and waiting for coincidence of heart-beat and second-hand, keying to the ...
Captain AJ Shout, VC, MC, MID (& bar), who died at Gallipoli of wounds and was posthumously awarded the VC, ...
Indeed. These jagged crevasses of the psyche are treacherous, gray. Extending two hundred plus days in every direction; an ominous ...
When Scotland's great Regent, our warrior most dear, The debt of his nature did pay, T' was Edward, the cruel, ...
El Arabi! El Arabi! Burn in thy brilliance, mine own! O Beautiful! O Barbarous! Seductive as a serpent is That ...
El Arabi! El Arabi! Burn in thy brilliance, mine own! O Beautiful! O Barbarous! Seductive as a serpent is That ...
All through an empty place I go, And find her not in any room; The candles and the lamps I ...
The Vanishing They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Miss J.Hunter Dunn, Miss J.Hunter Dunn, Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun, What strenuous singles we played after tea, We ...
(France -- Ancient Regime.) I. Go away! Go away; I will not confess to you! His black biretta clings like ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
I had over prepared the event, that much was ominous. With middle-ageing care I had laid out just the right ...
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten ...
Across the red sky two birds flying, Flying with drooping wings. Silent and solitary their ominous flight. All day the ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
I LOVE, though for this you riddle me with darts, And drag me at your chariot till I die, Oh, ...
to find the origin, trace back the manifestations. Tao Between being and non-being barely there these sails of water, ice, ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
Look at them standing there in authority The pale-faces, As if it could have any effect any more. Pale-face authority, ...
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