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Amy Lowell: The Grocery

The Grocery"Hullo, Alice!" "Hullo, Leon!" "Say, Alice, gi' me a couple O' them two for five cigars, Will yer?" "Where's your nickel?" "My! Ain't you close! Can't trust a feller, can yer." "…

Amy Lowell: The Hammers

The HammersFrindsbury, Kent, 1786Paris, March, 1814Paris, April, 1814Croissy, Ile-de-France, June, 1815St. Helena, May, 1821

Amy Lowell: VI

VICrystal-blue brightness over the glass-houses. Crystal-blue streaks and ripples over the lake. A macaw on a gilded perch screams; they have forgotten to take out his dinner. The windows…

Amy Lowell: VII

VIIOver the slate roof tall clouds, like ships of the line, pass along the sky. The glass-houses glitter splotchily, for many of their lights are broken. Roses bloom, fiery cinders quenching…

Amy Lowell: Walk

WalkOver the street the white clouds meet, and sheer away without touching.On the sidewalks, boys are playing marbles. Glass marbles, with amber and blue hearts, roll together and part with…

Amy Lowell: Apology

ApologyAmy LowellBe not angry with me that I bear Your colours everywhere, All through each crowded street, And meet The wonder-light in every eye, As I go by.Each…

Amy Lowell: A Lady

A LadyAmy LowellYou are beautiful and faded Like an old opera tune Played upon a harpsichord; Or like the sun-flooded silks Of an eighteenth-century boudoir. In your eyes Smoulder the fallen…

Amy's Valley of Humiliation

Amy's Valley of Humiliation"That boy is a perfect cyclops, isn't he?" said Amy one day, as Laurie clattered by on horseback, with a flourish of his whip as he passed."How dare you say so,…

Amy Vanderbilt Biography

Amy Vanderbiltjournalist, authorBorn: 7/22/1908Birthplace: New York, N.Y. When she was 16, Vanderbilt became a part-time reporter for the Staten Island Advance. She studied in Switzerland, at…

Amy Van Dyken

Amy Van DykenBorn: Feb. 17, 1973Swimming first American woman to win four gold medals in one Olympics (1996); won the individual 50m freestyle, 100m butterfly, and was on the US team for the…