Monadnock in Early Spring (Amy Lowell Poem)
Cloud-topped and splendid, dominating all The little lesser hills which compass thee, Thou standest, bright with April's buoyancy, Yet holding ...
Cloud-topped and splendid, dominating all The little lesser hills which compass thee, Thou standest, bright with April's buoyancy, Yet holding ...
Before the Altar, bowed, he stands With empty hands; Upon it perfumed offerings burn Wreathing with smoke the sacrificial urn. ...
IN that so temperate Soil Arcadia nam'd, For fertile Pasturage by Poets fam'd; Stands a steep Hill, whose lofty jetting ...
Within the broken Vatican The murdered Pope is lying dead. The soldiers of Valerian Their evil hands are wet and ...
Thrice, and above, blest, my soul's half, art thou, In thy both last and better vow; Could'st leave the city, ...
Why did you give no hint that night That quickly after the morrow's dawn, And calmly, as if indifferent quite, ...
I. "Incense is hut a tribute for the gods,-- To mortals 'tis but poison." THE smoke that from thine altar ...
HLF, August 8, 1918-August 22, 1997 "Bequeath us to no earthly shore until Is answered in the vortex of our ...
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
The old fellow from Shao-ling weeps with stifled sobs as he walks furtively by the bends of the Sepentine on ...
All Greece hates the still eyes in the white face, the lustre as of olives where she stands, and the ...
I cannot meet the Spring unmoved -- I feel the old desire -- A Hurry with a lingering, mixed, A ...
Had we our senses But perhaps 'tis well they're not at Home So intimate with Madness He's liable with them ...
Fate slew Him, but He did not drop -- She felled -- He did not fall -- Impaled Him on ...
After all Birds have been investigated and laid aside -- Nature imparts the little Blue-Bird -- assured Her conscientious Voice ...
Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The Frost beheads it at its play -- In accidental power -- ...
The Soul selects her own Society -- Then -- shuts the Door -- To her divine Majority -- Present no ...
We knew their names or thought we did, we knew their faces from an album of places we'd played in ...
And all at length are gathered in. --LOUISE BOGAN By the time I came around to feeling pain and woke ...
Through waning afternoons we glide the watery peripheries of love. A silence, a quietude falls. Above us--the sagging pavilions of ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
Young Mary, loitering once her garden way, Felt a warm splendour grow in the April day, As wine that blushes ...
Missolonghi, Jan. 22, 1824 'Tis time this heart should be unmoved, Since others it hath ceased to move: Yet, though ...
WHEN Juan sought the subterranean flood, And paid his obolus on the Stygian shore, Charon, the proud and sombre beggar, ...
But do not let us quarrel any more, No, my Lucrezia; bear with me for once: Sit down and all ...
I have come, alas, to the great circle of shadow, to the short day and to the whitening hills, when ...
'Not by the justice that my father spurn'd, Not for the thousands whom my father slew, Altars unfed and temples ...
The people take the thing of course, They marvel not to see This strange, unnatural divorce Betwixt delight and me. ...
To E.M.S. Here, where your garden fenced about and still is, Here, where the unmoved summer air is sweet With ...
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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