The Coal Picker (Amy Lowell Poem)
He perches in the slime, inert, Bedaubed with iridescent dirt. The oil upon the puddles dries To colours like a ...
He perches in the slime, inert, Bedaubed with iridescent dirt. The oil upon the puddles dries To colours like a ...
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
Dear Bessie, would my tired rhyme Had force to rise from apathy, And shaking off its lethargy Ring word-tones like ...
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
My daughter raises the smooth brass kaleidoscope and watches as coloured glass slivers conspire together. New worlds create themselves before ...
Let me but feel thy look's embrace, Transparent, pure, and warm, And I'll not ask to touch thy face, Or ...
The Day came slow -- till Five o'clock -- Then sprang before the Hills Like Hindered Rubies -- or the ...
I could bring You Jewels -- had I a mind to -- But You have enough -- of those -- ...
I Came to buy a smile -- today -- But just a single smile -- The smallest one upon your ...
As he said vanity, so vain say I, Oh! Vanity, O vain all under sky; Where is the man can ...
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
I O THOU, that sit'st upon a throne, With harp of high majestic tone, To praise the King of kings; ...
Hurrah! I'm off to Finistere, to Finistere, to Finistere; My satchel's swinging on my back, my staff is in my ...
While I am emulating Keats My brother fabrics toilet seats, The which, they say, are works of art, Aesthetic features ...
Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen, Bright topaz denizens of a world of green. They do not fear the ...
Luini in porcelain! The grand piano Utters a profane Protest with her clear soprano. The sleek head emerges From the ...
I do not love you as if you were a salt rose, or topaz or the arrow of carnations the ...
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots ...
Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth, wine, smooth ...
From blossoms released by the moonlight, from an aroma of exasperated love, steeped in fragrance, yellowness drifted from the lemon ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
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