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Born in 1874 / Died in 1925 / United States / English

Poems by Amy Lowell

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The Blue Scarf

... lifted a scarf On the seat close beside me, the blue of it is a violent outrage ...

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Suggested by the Cover of a Volume of Keats's Poems

... And the poet Who felt this burning beauty, and whose heart ...

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The Starling

... With all my outer life a clipped, square hole, ...

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The Painter on Silk

... He thought of red, and yellow, and white roses ...

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The Hammers

... Tap! Tap! Andrew Darling has ridden hard from Longwood to see to the work ...

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Obligation

... So that scarcely shall your two arms hinder them ...

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A Coloured Print by Shokei

... And the trees and the bushes which grow in the rocks ...

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A Fixed Idea

... unsought The old delight is with us but to find ...

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The Cross-Roads

... and crunching. Overhead, branches writhing, winding, interlacing, unwinding, scattering ...

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The Grocery

... They look good in pyramids with the 'lectric light on 'em, ...

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Miscast II

... My heart gapes because it is ripe and over-full, ...

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A Ballad of Footmen

... Half-mast The flags which meant order, for order is past ...

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The Bombardment

... d counts. Boom! -- Boom! -- Boom!The poet rushes into the street, and the rain wraps him in a sheet ...

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From One Who Stays

... The whir of motors, stricken through with calls ...

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The Road to Avignon

... Hark! The beating of humming-birds' wings! ...