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 ...
It is the boy in me who's looking out the window, while someone across the street mends a pillowcase, clouds ...
I'm mighty glad to see you, Mrs. Curtis, And thank you very kindly for this visit-- Especially now when all ...
I He would drink by himself And raise a weathered thumb Towards the high shelf, Calling another rum And blackcurrant, ...
She gives him his eyes, she found them Among some rubble, among some beetles He gives her her skin He ...
The slow overture of rain, each drop breaking without breaking into the next, describes the unrelenting, syncopated mind. Not unlike ...
Like exploded shards of glass in many shapes and colors trying to complete the puzzle without the picture there Explaining ...
Part of the puzzle the confusion of our spirits competition for success measured in our wealth the things, the possessions ...
Without each other, parts parts of a puzzle, clear in completion only each a member, valuable, needed finding purpose in ...
A DEMON, blacker in his skin than heart, So great a charm was prompted to impart; To one in love, ...
SHE stood against the kitchen sink, and looked Over the sink out through a dusty window At weeds the water ...
When Sam Small joined the regiment, 'E were no' but a raw recruit, And they marched 'im away one wint'ry ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
In England once there lived a big And wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain That Piggy had a ...
I've nothing else -- to bring, You know -- So I keep bringing These -- Just as the Night keeps ...
There were long hyphens in our day- When no one spoke; no one exhaled As we contemplated the broken puzzles- ...
How agreeable it is not to be touring Italy this summer, wandering her cities and ascending her torrid hilltowns. How ...
Ophelia claims we're dead and gives me back all my Frank Zappa and the Mothers albums. I nearly claw out ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
HOW wisdom and Folly meet, mix, and unite, How Virtue and Vice blend their black and their white, How Genius, ...
The great light cage has broken up in the air, freeing, I think, about a million birds whose wild ascending ...
This is the story the stockman told On the cattle-camp, when the stars were bright; The moon rose up like ...
In the willows along the river at Pleasure Bay A catbird singing, never the same phrase twice. Here under the ...
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