Pickthorn Manor (Amy Lowell Poem)
I How fresh the Dartle's little waves that day! A steely silver, underlined with blue, And flashing where the round ...
I How fresh the Dartle's little waves that day! A steely silver, underlined with blue, And flashing where the round ...
Cross-ribboned shoes; a muslin gown, High-waisted, girdled with bright blue; A straw poke bonnet which hid the frown She pluckered ...
His old clay pipe stuck in his mouth, His hat pushed from his brow, His dress best fitted for the ...
I've a head like a concertina: I've a tongue like a button-stick: I've a mouth like an old potato, and ...
I planted my grief in freshly turned earth A tree grows there now You should see the size of it ...
All winter your brute shoulders strained against collars, padding and steerhide over the ash hames, to haul sledges of cordwood ...
whirligig twister dancer prancer st vitus's quester chancer romancer the inkman cometh from that nether world where dream and coincidence ...
I came with the rising sun and I've brought nothing but two eyes, all I have, simply two eyes, for ...
He rubbed his hand, Unconsciously, from habit His finger Held onto a memory, A bit of history Now months gone, ...
IF once in love, you'll soon invention find And not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind; The youngest 'prentice, ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
Thou hast committed- Fornication: but that was in another country, And besides, the wench is dead. The Jew of Malta. ...
They called me to the Window, for " 'Twas Sunset" -- Some one said -- I only saw a Sapphire ...
"ROWSES, Rowses! Penny a bunch!" they tell you-- Slattern girls in Trafalgar, eager to sell you. Roses, roses, red in ...
The turquoise pool rose up to meet us, its slide a silver afterthought down which we plunged, screaming, into a ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
Gods, what a black, fierce day! The clouds were iron, Wrenched to strange, rugged shapes; the red sun winked Over ...
(Translated from the French by Edouard Rodti) My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
For Louise Crane In your next letter I wish you'd say where you are going and what you are doing; ...
arrive. The Ladies from the Ladies' Betterment League Arrive in the afternoon, the late light slanting In diluted gold bars ...
Bare-handed, I hand the combs. The man in white smiles, bare-handed, Our cheesecloth gauntlets neat and sweet, The throats of ...
It was the man from Ironbark who struck the Sydney town, He wandered over street and park, he wandered up ...
It was a man from Ironbark who struck the Sydney town, He wandered over street and park, he wandered up ...
My dog has died. I buried him in the garden next to a rusted old machine. Some day I'll join ...
You can't be, says a Palestinian Christian on the first feast day after Ramadan. So, half-and-half and half-and-half. He sells ...
When I got to his marker, I sat on it, like sitting on the edge of someone's bed and I ...
Childhood sleeps in a verandah room in an iron bed close to the wall where the winter over the railing ...
Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly; In my own way, and with my full consent. Say ...
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