The Last Quarter of the Moon (Amy Lowell Poem)
How long shall I tarnish the mirror of life, A spatter of rust on its polished steel! The seasons reel ...
How long shall I tarnish the mirror of life, A spatter of rust on its polished steel! The seasons reel ...
The best is, in war or faction or ordinary vindictive life, not to take sides. Leave it for children, and ...
ACT I. SC. I Enter Teryth from riding, Winefred following. T. WHAT is it, Gwen, my girl? why do you ...
I rose at night and visited The Cave of the Unborn, And crowding shapes surrounded me For tidings of the ...
So sure, anointed for that purpose sanctioned and bless to route them out He was a zealot, crusader to stamp ...
Over and over he must have washed his hands trying to remove the stain, the tattoo of innocent blood blood ...
Peeling away the curtain that blocks them from the outside world the world of crickets, of wind, of gulls, of ...
THE Queen of Birds, t'encrease the Regal Stock, Had hatch'd her young Ones in a stately Oak, Whose Middle-part was ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
We have all of us read how the Israelites fled From Egypt with Pharaoh in eager pursuit of 'em, And ...
En robe de parade. Samain Like a skien of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing ...
Awake, of Muse, the echoes of a day Long past, the ghosts of mem'ries manifold -- Youth's memories that once ...
Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme- I will not madly deem that power ...
Welcome! thrice welcome! to the year 1893, For it is the year I intend to leave Dundee, Owing to the ...
Composed, by Special Request, 18th June 1890 Then Pilate, the Roman Governor, took Jesus and scourged Him, And the soldiers ...
Said Cotton to Corn, t'other day, As they met and exchang'd salute-- (Squire Corn in his carriage so gay, Poor ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
How many times, during the twenty years I was your leader, friends of Spoon River, Did you neglect the convention ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
Oft seems the Time a market-town Where many merchant-spirits meet Who up and down and up and down Cry out ...
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