Author: Amy Lowell

I have been temperate always, But I am like to be very drunk With your coming. There have been times […]

Reign of Louis Philippe A great tall column spearing at the sky With a little man on top. Goodness! Tell […]

At first a mere thread of a footpath half blotted Out by the grasses Sweeping triumphant across it, it wound […]

From out the dragging vastness of the sea, Wave-fettered, bound in sinuous, seaweed strands, He toils toward the rounding beach, […]

Near where I live there is a lake As blue as blue can be, winds make It dance as they […]

Slipping softly through the sky Little horned, happy moon, Can you hear me up so high? Will you come down […]

Glinting golden through the trees, Apples of Hesperides! Through the moon-pierced warp of night Shoot pale shafts of yellow light, […]

A face seen passing in a crowded street, A voice heard singing music, large and free; And from that moment […]

Great master! Boyish, sympathetic man! Whose orbed and ripened genius lightly hung From life’s slim, twisted tendril and there swung […]

Now what in the name of the sun and the stars Is the meaning of this most unholy of wars? […]

Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, […]

Fish “So. . .” they said, With their wine-glasses delicately poised, Mocking at the thing they cannot understand. “So. . […]

Thou dear and well-loved haunt of happy hours, How often in some distant gallery, Gained by a little painful spiral […]

Look, Dear, how bright the moonlight is to-night! See where it casts the shadow of that tree Far out upon […]

Dear Bessie, would my tired rhyme Had force to rise from apathy, And shaking off its lethargy Ring word-tones like […]

Dear Virgin Mary, far away, Look down from Heaven while I pray. Open your golden casement high, And lean way […]

The lawyer, are you? Well! I ain’t got nothin’ to say. Nothin’! I told the perlice I hadn’t nothin’. They […]

You glow in my heart Like the flames of uncounted candles. But when I go to warm my hands, My […]

A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran […]

Sea Shell, Sea Shell, Sing me a song, O Please! A song of ships, and sailor men, And parrots, and […]