Source: Selected Poems of Amy Lowell
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“When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum.”
Source: Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
Source: Selected poems
Source: Che ore sono?: poesie
“Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.”
“Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.”
Source: Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
“Youth condemns; maturity condones”
Source: Tendencies in Modern American Poetry
Source: A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
“Even pain pricks to livelier living.”
Source: Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
“A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.”
“Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.”
Source: Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
Source: Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
“Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.”
“Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.”
Source: A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
“I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.”
Source: What's o'clock
“If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed.”
Source: A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
Source: A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
“Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.”
Source: John Keats
Source: Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer
“Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon.”
Source: Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer
“To-night when the full-bellied moon swallows the stars. Grant that I know.”
Source: Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer
“Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.”
Source: Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer
Source: Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer
Source: What's o'clock