Loon Point (Amy Lowell Poem)
Softly the water ripples Against the canoe's curving side, Softly the birch trees rustle Flinging over us branches wide. Softly ...
Softly the water ripples Against the canoe's curving side, Softly the birch trees rustle Flinging over us branches wide. Softly ...
January Janus am I; oldest of potentates; Forward I look, and backward, and below I count, as god of avenues ...
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door . A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat, . Lay down ...
On the Mountains of the Prairie, On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry, Gitche Manito, the mighty, He the Master of ...
Can it be the sun descending O'er the level plain of water? Or the Red Swan floating, flying, Wounded by ...
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
In the market-place of Bruges stands the belfry old and brown; Thrice consumed and thrice rebuilded, still it watches o'er ...
THE BRICKLAYER: I tell this tale, which is strictly true, Just by way of convincing you How very little, since ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
A lake and a fairy boat To sail in the moonlight clear, - And merrily we would float From the ...
[This sweet Ballad, and the one entitled The Maid of the Mill's Repentance, were written on the occasion of a ...
THE warder looks down at the mid hour of night, On the tombs that lie scatter'd below: The moon fills ...
I Like a gaunt, scraggly pine Which lifts its head above the mournful sandhills; And patiently, through dull years of ...
A moonbeam floateth from the skies, Whispering, "Heigho, my dearie! I would spin a web before your eyes,-- A beautiful ...
The three stood listening to a fresh access Of wind that caught against the house a moment, Gulped snow, and ...
How countlessly they congregate O'er our tumultuous snow, Which flows in shapes as tall as trees When wintry winds do ...
When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think ...
EVERYTHING is jazz: snails, jails, rails, tails, males, females, snow-white cotton bales. Knee-bone, thigh, hip-bone. Jazz slips you percussion bone ...
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows ...
I Once, only once, I saw it clear, -- That Eden every human heart has dreamed A hundred times, but ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost Her snow-white robes, and now no more the frost Candies the ...
To the tune of "Happy Event Is Nigh" The wind ceases; fallen flowers pile high. Outside my screen, petals collect ...
The winter comes; I walk alone, I want no bird to sing; To those who keep their hearts their own ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
I My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have ...
You read-what is it, then that you are reading? What music moves so silently in your mind? Your bright hand ...
1 Senlin sits before us, and we see him. He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him. Is ...
1 Senlin sits before us, and we see him. He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him. Is ...
You have become a forge of snow-white fire, A crucible of molten steel, O France! Your sons are stars who ...
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