Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (Amy Lowell Poem)
A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran ...
A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran ...
The Eagle screams at the beck of trade, so Spain, as the world goes round, Must wrestle the right to ...
The centuries found me to nations unknown - My people have crowned me and made me a throne; My royal ...
"Like clouds o'er the South are the nations who reign On fair islands that we would command; But clouds that ...
You ask me to be gay and glad While lurid clouds of danger loom, And vain and bad and gambling ...
The night too quickly passes And we are growing old, So let us fill our glasses And toast the Days ...
Before I am completely shriven I shall reject my inch of heaven. Cancel my eyes, and, standing, sink Into my ...
1 On my way home from school up tribal Providence Hill past the Academy ballpark where I could never hope ...
Old as the world--no other things so old; Nay, older than the world, else, how had sprung Such lusty strength ...
All this was written on the next day's list. On which the busyness unfurled its cursive roots, pale but effective, ...
The bloom almost ready the petals yet to unfurl The crocus, cobalt, nascent up through the soil The leaves at ...
Nestled, sheltered against the warm brick the foundation of the church the dying bloom of the now lavender crocus Unfurled ...
The sun began to shine the petals unfurled precise order, sequence regimented, controlled synchronized blooming set down in the genetic ...
Like twin party favors blown out and back in they furled and unfurled and their skirts swirled from next to ...
The violin sang over the hum, the rumble the guitars by her side They held the rhythm oh, but she ...
Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19th, 1836 By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their ...
Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack, Ye little men of little souls! And bid them huddle at your back ...
In measured verse I'll now rehearse The charms of lovely Anna: And, first, her mind is unconfined Like any vast ...
When I was young the silk of my mind hard as a peony head unfurled and wind bloomed the parachute: ...
By the far Samoan shore, Where the league-long rollers pour All the wash of the Pacific on the coral-guarded bay, ...
I sat beneath a willow tree, Where water falls and calls; While fancies upon fancies solaced me, Some true, and ...
My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet ...
When I was young and bold and strong, Oh, right was right, and wrong was wrong! My plume on high, ...
Into her presence he gaily pranced, A very fat spark, and a bit advanced. With a Samson tread on the ...
The air heaving like a wounded fish, breathing through its purplish sandy gills, letting in the salty gale, fluttering its ...
'Twas in the year of 1900, and on the 5th of June, Lord Roberts entered Pretoria in the afternoon; His ...
'Twas in the year of 1897, and on the 22nd of June, Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee in London caused a ...
I Blow across the stagnant world, I blow across the sea, For me, the sailor's flag unfurled, For me, the ...
God had called us, and we came; Our loved Earth to ashes left; Heaven was a neighbor's house, Open to ...
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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