The Cremona Violin (Amy Lowell Poem)
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
When you've knocked about the country-been away from home for years; When the past, by distance softened, nearly fills your ...
He'd been for years in Sydney "a-acting of the goat", His name was Joseph Swallow, "the Great Australian Pote", In ...
As our mother the Frigate, bepainted and fine, Made play for her bully the Ship of the Line; So we, ...
THE TURN Brave infant of Saguntum, clear Thy coming forth in that great year, When the prodigious Hannibal did crown ...
to the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that noble pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison IT is not ...
A wreathed garland of deserved praise, Of praise deserved, unto thee I give, I give to thee, who knowest all ...
Thrice, and above, blest, my soul's half, art thou, In thy both last and better vow; Could'st leave the city, ...
WHEN Lawyers strive to heal a breach, And Parsons practise what they preach; Then Little Boney he'll pounce down, And ...
When battles were fought With a chivalrous sense of should and ought, In spirit men said, "End we quick or ...
CHORDS are touch'd by Apollo,--the death-laden bow, too, he bendeth; While he the shepherdess charms, Python he lays in the ...
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find, It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind: Brown bread as well as white must ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
Jellicle Cats come out tonight, Jellicle Cats come one come all: The Jellicle Moon is shining bright-- Jellicles come to ...
Cupid, I hate thee, which I'd have thee know; A naked starveling ever may'st thou be. Poor rogue, go pawn ...
Creator Spirit, by whose aid The world's foundations first were laid, Come, visit ev'ry pious mind; Come, pour thy joys ...
Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the Blest; Whose palms, new pluck'd from Paradise, ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
G'way an' quit dat noise, Miss Lucy-- Put dat music book away; What's de use to keep on tryin'? Ef ...
Who ever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea ...
Those who have been in the Grave the longest -- Those who begin Today -- Equally perish from our Practise ...
I watched the Moon around the House Until upon a Pane -- She stopped -- a Traveller's privilege -- for ...
Conferring with myself My stranger disappeared Though first upon a berry fat Miraculously fared How paltry looked my cares My ...
The feet of people walking home With gayer sandals go -- The Crocus -- til she rises The Vassal of ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
I. The morn when first it thunders in March, The eel in the pond gives a leap, they say: As ...
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
The people upstairs all practise ballet Their living room is a bowling alley Their bedroom is full of conducted tours. ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories