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Amy Lowell: Francis II, King of Naples

Francis II, King of NaplesWritten after reading Trevelyan's Garibaldi and the making of ItalyPoor foolish monarch, vacillating, vain, Decaying victim of a race of kings, Swift Destiny shook…

Amy Lowell: From One Who Stays

From One Who StaysHow empty seems the town now you are gone! A wilderness of sad streets, where gaunt walls Hide nothing to desire; sunshine falls Eery, distorted, as it long had shone On…

A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass

Amy LowellDedicationLife, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity. Shelley , Adonais. Le silence est si grand que mon coeur en frissonne, Seul, le bruit de…

Lyrical Poems

ContentsBefore the AltarSuggested by the Cover of a Volume of Keats's PoemsApples of HesperidesAzure and GoldPetalsVenetian GlassFatigueA Japanese Wood-CarvingA Little SongBehind a WallA…

Sonnets

ContentsLeisureOn Carpaccio's Picture: The Dream of St. UrsulaThe MatrixMonadnock in Early SpringThe Little GardenTo an Early DaffodilListeningThe Lamp of LifeHero-WorshipIn DarknessBefore…

Verses for Children

ContentsSea ShellFringed GentiansThe Painted CeilingThe Crescent MoonClimbingThe TroutWindThe Pleiades

Leicester, Robert Dudley, earl of

(Encyclopedia) Leicester, Robert Dudley, earl ofLeicester, Robert Dudley, earl oflĕsˈtər [key], 1532?–1588, English courtier and favorite of Queen Elizabeth I. A younger son of John Dudley, duke of…