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During a career that spanned just over a dozen years, she wrote and published over 650 poems, yet scholars cite Lowell’s tireless efforts to awaken American readers to contemporary trends in poetry as her more influential contribution to literary history.
Apr 10, 2017 · There are ten of the finest short Amy Lowell poems – we hope you enjoy them. Middle Age. Like black ice. Scrolled over with unintelligible patterns. by an ignorant skater. Is the dulled surface of my heart. Wind and Silver. Greatly shining, The Autumn moon floats in the thin sky;
Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school, which promoted a return to classical values. She posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.
White, Purple, Color of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers. Are everywhere in this my New England. Among your heart-shaped leaves. Orange orioles hop like music-box birds and sing. Their little weak soft songs; In the crooks of your branches. The bright eyes of song sparrows sitting on spotted eggs. Peer restlessly through the light and shadow.
The Garden by Moonlight. By Amy Lowell. A black cat among roses, Phlox, lilac-misted under a first-quarter moon, The sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still, It is dazed with moonlight, Contented with perfume, Dreaming the opium dreams of its folded poppies.
The Giver of Stars. Amy Lowell. 1874 –. 1925. Hold your soul open for my welcoming. Let the quiet of your spirit bathe me. With its clear and rippled coolness, That, loose-limbed and weary, I find rest, Outstretched upon your peace, as on a bed of ivory.
Amy Lowell. 1874 –. 1925. Read poems by this poet. On February 9, 1874, Amy Lowell was born at Sevenels, a ten-acre family estate in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her family was Episcopalian, of old New England stock, and at the top of Boston society. Lowell was the youngest of five children.
The silver of moon-touched magnolias. Gleaming with agitated torches. This poem is in the public domain. Born in 1874, Amy Lowell was deeply interested in and influenced by the Imagist movement and she received the Pulitzer Prize for her collection What’s O’Clock.
Jun 26, 2023 · 10 iconic poems by Amy Lowell (1874 – 1925), the influential, prolific American imagist poet, who practiced imagism and vers libre.
Patterns. By Amy Lowell. I walk down the garden paths, And all the daffodils. Are blowing, and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden paths. In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled fan, I too am a rare.
