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2012 Academy Awards

The 2012 Academy Awards were presented on February 24, 2013, at the Kodak Theatre. All of the nominees are listed below; the Oscar winners are in bold. Best Picture Amour…

Poetry Glossary

GlossaryHofgartenIn German a hof is a courtyard and thus a 'court garden'StarnbergerseeA lake 20 km (12 mi) southwest of Munich, the Starnbergersee was one of Europe's first pleasure grounds…

Amy Lowell: Afternoon Rain in State Street

Afternoon Rain in State StreetCross-hatchings of rain against grey walls, Slant lines of black rain In front of the up and down, wet stone sides of buildings. Below, Greasy, shiny, black,…

Bronze Tablets

ContentsThe Fruit ShopMalmaisonIIIIIIIVVVIVIIThe HammersFrindsbury, Kent, 1786Paris, March, 1814Paris, April, 1814Croissy, Ile-de-France, June, 1815St. Helena, May, 1821Two Travellers in the Place…

Clocks Tick a Century

ContentsNightmare: A Tale for an Autumn EveningThe Paper WindmillThe Red Lacquer Music-StandSpring DayBathBreakfast TableWalkMidday and AfternoonNight and SleepThe Dinner-PartyStravinsky's…

Amy Lowell: Croissy, Ile-de-France, June, 1815

Croissy, Ile-de-France, June, 1815"Whoa! Victorine. Devil take the mare! I've never seen so vicious a beast. She kicked Jules the last time she was here, He's been lame ever since, poor…

Figurines in Old Saxe

ContentsPatternsPickthorn ManorThe Cremona ViolinPart FirstPart SecondPart ThirdPart FourthPart FifthThe Cross-RoadsA Roxbury GardenHoopsBattledore and ShuttlecockGarden Games1777The Trumpet-…

Men, Women and Ghosts

Amy LowellDedication"`. . . See small portions of the Eternal World that ever groweth': . . . . So sang a Fairy, mocking, as he sat on a streak'd tulip, Thinking none saw him: when he ceas'd I…

Amy Lowell: St. Helena, May, 1821

St. Helena, May, 1821Tap! Tap! Tap! Through the white tropic night. Tap! Tap! Beat the hammers, Unwearied, indefatigable. They are hanging dull black cloth about the dead. Lustreless black…