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Amy Lowell - The Hammers
2023-12-05IFrindsbury, Kent, 1786Bang!Bang!Tap!Tap-a-tap! Rap!All through the lead and silver Winter days,All through the copper of Autumn hazes.Tap to the red ...
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Reign of Louis PhilippeA great tall column spearing at the skyWith a little man on top. Goodness! Tell me why?He looks a silly thing enough to stand u...
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Nightmare: A Tale for an Autumn Evening
2023-12-05After a Print by George CruikshankIt was a gusty night,With the wind booming, and swooping,Looping round corners,Sliding over the cobble-stones,Whippi...
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The Paper Windmill
2023-12-05The little boy pressed his face against the window-pane and looked outat the bright sunshiny morning. The cobble-stones of the squareglistened like mi...
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The Red Lacquer Music-Stand
2023-12-05A music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since broughtIn some fast clipper-ship from China, quaintly wroughtWith bossed and carven flowers and fruits in...
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Amy Lowell - Spring Day
2023-12-05BathThe day is fresh-washed and fair, and there is a smell of tulips and narcissusin the air.The sunshine pours in at the bath-room window and bores t...
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Amy Lowell - The Dinner-Party
2023-12-05Fish"So . . ." they said,With their wine-glasses delicately poised,Mocking at the thing they cannot understand."So . . ." they sai...
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Amy Lowell - Stravinsky's Three Pieces
2023-12-05First MovementThin-voiced, nasal pipesDrawing sound out and outUntil it is a screeching thread,Sharp and cutting, sharp and cutting,It hurts.Whee-e-e!...
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Amy Lowell - Patterns
2023-12-05I walk down the garden paths,And all the daffodilsAre blowing, and the bright blue squills.I walk down the patterned garden-pathsIn my stiff, brocaded...
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Amy Lowell - Pickthorn Manor
2023-12-05IHow fresh the Dartle's little waves that day! A steely silver, underlined with blue,And flashing where the round clouds, blown away, Let drop the...