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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…

Amy Lowell: The Red Lacquer Music-Stand

The Red Lacquer Music-StandA music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since brought In some fast clipper-ship from China, quaintly wrought With bossed and carven flowers and fruits in blackening…

Amy Lowell: Two Travellers in the Place Vendome

Two Travellers in the Place VendomeReign of Louis PhilippeA great tall column spearing at the sky With a little man on top. Goodness! Tell me why? He looks a silly thing enough to stand up…