The Precinct. Rochester (Amy Lowell Poem)
The tall yellow hollyhocks stand, Still and straight, With their round blossoms spread open, In the quiet sunshine. And still ...
The tall yellow hollyhocks stand, Still and straight, With their round blossoms spread open, In the quiet sunshine. And still ...
By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer ...
"Speak! speak I thou fearful guest Who, with thy hollow breast Still in rude armor drest, Comest to daunt me! ...
I Sing the Man that never Equal knew, Whose Mighty Arms all Asia did subdue, Whose Conquests through the spacious ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
As late I rambled in the happy fields, What time the skylark shakes the tremulous dew From his lush clover ...
NOW they sing the hero loud; -- But they sing him in his shroud. Torch he kindled for his land; ...
IN search of prey once raised his pinions An eaglet; A huntsman's arrow came, and reft His right wing of ...
I What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there a new thing under the Sun? At last inquisitive ...
Of all the opry-houses then obtaining in the West The one which Milton Tootle owned was, by all odds, the ...
Under what withering leprous light The very grass as hair is grey, Grass in the cracks of the paven courts ...
Eclogue the First. Whanne Englonde, smeethynge from her lethal wounde, From her galled necke dyd twytte the chayne awaie, Kennynge ...
Almighty King! whose wondrous hand Supports the weight of sea and land; Whose grace is such a boundless store, No ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
(France -- Ancient Regime.) I. Go away! Go away; I will not confess to you! His black biretta clings like ...
The boat ploughed on. Now Alcatraz was past And all the grey waves flamed to red again At the dead ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
I Dreamt a Dream! what can it mean? And that I was a maiden Queen: Guarded by an Angel mild; ...
Frost apple on a knotted whirling bough of dark becoming where it cannot be. So much both for the soil ...
A ship with shields before the sun, Six maidens round the mast, A red-gold crown on every one, A green ...
But therewith the sun rose upward and lightened all the earth, And the light flashed up to the heavens from ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Make bright the arrows Gather the shields: Conquest narrows The peaceful fields. Stock well the quiver With arrows bright: The ...
My friends without shields walk on the target It is late the windows are breaking My friends without shoes leave ...
There by the window in the old house Perched on the bluff, overlooking miles of valley, My days of labor ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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