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Amy Lowell: A Little Song
A Little SongWhen you, my Dear, are away, away, How wearily goes the creeping day. A year drags after morning, and night Starts another year of candle light. O Pausing Sun and Lingering Moon…Amy Lowell: A Winter Ride
A Winter RideWho shall declare the joy of the running! Who shall tell of the pleasures of flight! Springing and spurning the tufts of wild heather, Sweeping, wide-winged, through the blue…Amy Lowell: Apples of Hesperides
Apples of HesperidesGlinting golden through the trees, Apples of Hesperides! Through the moon-pierced warp of night Shoot pale shafts of yellow light, Swaying to the kissing breeze Swings…Amy Lowell: Azure and Gold
Azure and GoldApril had covered the hills With flickering yellows and reds, The sparkle and coolness of snow Was blown from the mountain beds.Across a deep-sunken stream The pink of…Amy Lowell: Before Dawn
Before DawnLife! Austere arbiter of each man's fate, By whom he learns that Nature's steadfast laws Are as decrees immutable; O pause Your even forward march! Not yet too late Teach me…Amy Lowell: Before the Altar
Before the AltarBefore the Altar, bowed, he stands With empty hands; Upon it perfumed offerings burn Wreathing with smoke the sacrificial urn. Not one of all these has he given, No flame of…Amy Lowell: Behind a Wall
Behind a WallI own a solace shut within my heart, A garden full of many a quaint delight And warm with drowsy, poppied sunshine; bright, Flaming with lilies out of whose cups dart…Amy Lowell: The Boston Athenaeum
The Boston AthenaeumThou dear and well-loved haunt of happy hours, How often in some distant gallery, Gained by a little painful spiral stair, Far from the halls and corridors where throng…Amy Lowell: Frankincense and Myrrh
Frankincense and MyrrhMy heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the…Amy Lowell: Fringed Gentians
Fringed GentiansNear where I live there is a lake As blue as blue can be, winds make It dance as they go blowing by. I think it curtseys to the sky.It's just a lake of lovely flowers And my…