An Opera House (Amy Lowell Poem)
Within the gold square of the proscenium arch, A curtain of orange velvet hangs in stiff folds, Its tassels jarring ...
Within the gold square of the proscenium arch, A curtain of orange velvet hangs in stiff folds, Its tassels jarring ...
A cloud of dust on the long white road, And the teams go creeping on Inch by inch with the ...
At intermission I find her backstage still practicing the piece coming up next. She calls it the "solo in high ...
All the endings in my life rise up against me like that sea of troubles Shakespeare mixed with metaphors; like ...
My daughter raises the smooth brass kaleidoscope and watches as coloured glass slivers conspire together. New worlds create themselves before ...
Lord, I confess my sin is great; Great is my sin. Oh! gently treat With thy quick flow'r, thy momentany ...
You're like a scorpion, my brother, you live in cowardly darkness like a scorpion. You're like a sparrow, my brother, ...
MANY a day and night my bark stood ready laden; Waiting fav'ring winds, I sat with true friends round me, ...
[The following explanation is necessary, in order to make this ode in any way intelligible. The Poet is supposed to ...
The face of the Christ our risen savior who gives us life when we die with him who raises us ...
HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find, It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind: Brown bread as well as white must ...
WITH such a Pulse, with such disorder'd Veins, Such lab'ring Breath, as thy Disease constrains; With failing Eyes, that scarce ...
A governor it was proclaimed this time, When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire Ancestral memories might come ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
It's what the kids nowadays call weed. And it drifts like clouds from his lips. He hopes no one comes ...
I see a woman any woman making up and change first she is thinking of something else (because when a ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
When Friendship or Love Our sympathies move; When Truth, in a glance, should appear, The lips may beguile, With a ...
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the ...
Burning, he walks in the stream of flickering letters, clarinets, machines throbbing quicker than the heart, lopped-off heads, silk canvases, ...
Translated by Shorsha Sullivan (book includes DVD with audio performance directed by Piers Burton-Page, slide show of sculptures by Fritz ...
What large, dark hands are those at the window Lifted, grasping in the yellow light Which makes its way through ...
The day comes slowly in the railyard behind the ice factory. It broods on one cinder after another until each ...
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