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 ...
I have read, in some old, marvellous tale, Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
And your sunny years with a gracious wife Have brought you a daughter dear. "I watched her to-day; a more ...
Through vaults of pain, Enribbed and wrought with groins of ghastliness, I passed, and garish spectres moved my brain To ...
DAMON. Haste! Sylvia! haste, my charming Maid! Let's leave these fashionable toys; Let's seek the shelter of some shade, And ...
What art thou, SPLEEN, which ev'ry thing dost ape? Thou Proteus to abus'd Mankind, Who never yet thy real Cause ...
Beyond the pale of memory, In some mysterious dusky grove; A place of shadows utterly, Where never coos the turtle-dove, ...
The Bible is an antique Volume -- Written by faded men At the suggestion of Holy Spectres -- Subjects -- ...
The Life that tied too tight escapes Will ever after run With a prudential look behind And spectres of the ...
For Margot Snow that fallest from heaven, bear me aloft on thy wings To the domes of the star-girdled Seven, ...
For Margot Snow that fallest from heaven, bear me aloft on thy wings To the domes of the star-girdled Seven, ...
"AND did you really walk," said I, "On such a wretched night? I always fancied Ghosts could fly - If ...
"OH, when I was a little Ghost, A merry time had we! Each seated on his favourite post, We chumped ...
ONE winter night, at half-past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine, ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
up or down from the infinite C E N T E R B R I M M I N G ...
On a sunny brae, alone I lay One summer afternoon; It was the marriage-time of May With her young lover, ...
O SWARMING city, city full of dreams, Where in a full day the spectre walks and speaks; Mighty colossus, in ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress'd, And secret passions labour'd in her breast. Not youthful kings in battle seiz'd ...
It was somewhere up the country, in a land of rock and scrub, That they formed an institution called the ...
Beautiful Den o' Fowlis, most charming to be seen In the summer season, when your trees are green; Especially in ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
Oft have I brooded on defeat and pain, The pathos of the stupid, stumbling throng. These I ignore to-day and ...
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