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• To-night when the full-bellied moon swallows the stars. Grant that I know.

  Amy Lowell

  Life, Stars, Moon

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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• Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run.

  Amy Lowell

  Running, Flower, Bending

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed.

  Amy Lowell

  Fire, Belief, Worship

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.63, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I should like to bring a case to trial: Prosperity versus Beauty, Cash registers teetering in a balance against the comfort of the soul.

  Amy Lowell

  Soul, Balance, Comfort

  Amy Lowell (1926). “What's o'clock”

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• Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.

  Amy Lowell

  Blood, Coins, Pay

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Sword Blades and Poppy Seed”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.

  Amy Lowell

  Trying, Way, Said

  Amy Lowell (1971). “Poetry and Poets: Essays”, p.3, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume.

  Amy Lowell

  Sweet, Cat, Moon

  Amy Lowell (2010). “Che ore sono?: poesie”, p.133, G. D'Ambrosio Angelillo

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• Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.

  Amy Lowell

  Rose, Joy, Opening

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness?

  Amy Lowell

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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• You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.

  Amy Lowell

  Hands, Ice, Fire

  Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.66, Rutgers University Press

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• Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.

  Amy Lowell

  Self, Sorrow, Experience

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Sword Blades and Poppy Seed”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.

  Amy Lowell

  Maturity, Men, Necks

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• I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.

  Amy Lowell

  Lying, Atheism, Shells

  Amy Lowell (1926). “What's o'clock”

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• How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!

  Amy Lowell

  Art, Way, Hard

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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• How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon, Still, Upon your face. You shine, Beloved, You and the moon. But which is the reflection?

  Amy Lowell

  Beautiful, Moon, Night

  Amy Lowell (2010). “Che ore sono?: poesie”, p.135, G. D'Ambrosio Angelillo

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• Underneath my stiffened gown
  Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin

  Amy Lowell

  Women, Gowns, Marble

  Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.58, Rutgers University Press

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• Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of that tradition, and we all know how thin, how lacking in charm, the copies of Keats have become.

  Amy Lowell

  Lasts, Tradition, Poet

  Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.6, Ardent Media

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• Guarded within the old red wall's embrace, Marshalled like soldiers in gay company, The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry Wheels out into the sunlight.

  Amy Lowell

  Wall, Gay, Soldier

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Sword Blades and Poppy Seed”, p.174, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In my stiff, brocaded gown.
  With my powdered hair and jeweled fan,
  I too am a rare
  Pattern.

  Amy Lowell

  Hair, Fans, Gowns

  Amy Lowell (2004). “Selected Poems”

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