Amy Lowell: Selected Poems

edited by honor moore

from A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass (1912)

Apples of Hesperides

ΔIΨA

On Carpaccio's Picture The Dream of St. Ursula

The Matrix

A Fixed Idea

Crépescule du matin

The Starling

The Painted Ceiling

Climbing

from Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914)

The Captured Goddess

A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M.

Astigmatism

Apology

A Petition

Absence

A Gift

The Bungler

Anticipation

The Taxi

The Giver of Stars

The Pike

The Blue Scarf

Aubade

from Men, Women and Ghosts (1916)

Patterns

Spring Day

The Dinner-Party

Towns in Colour

from Pictures of the Floating World (1919)

Streets

Desolation

The Fisherman's Wife

The Pond

Autumn

The Camellia Tree of Matsue

Superstition

The Return

In Time of War

Time

Passing the Bamboo Fence

A Burnt Offering

Reflections

A Poet's Wife

Spring Longing

Vernal Equinox

The Letter

Mise en Scène

Venus Transiens

Madonna of the Evening Flowers

Bright Sunlight

Wheat-in-the-Ear

The Weather-Cock Points South

The Artist

The Garden by Moonlight

Interlude

Bullion

A Shower

Summer Rain

After a Storm

Opal

Wakefulness

Orange of Midsummer

Shore Grass

Autumnal Equinox

Nerves

Autumn

Strain

Haunted

Grotesque

Maladie de l'Après-Midi

Nostalgia

A Decade

Penumbra

The Corner of Night and Morning

Beech, Pine, and Sunlight

A Bather

Dog-Days

The Travelling Bear

The Broken Fountain

Balls

Flotsam

Misericordia

Dreams in War Time

Spectacles

September. 1918

from Legends (1921)

Gavotte in D Minor

from Fir-Flower Tablets (1921)

Ch'ang Kan

Drinking Alone in the Moonlight

Descending the Extreme South Mountain; Passing the House of Hu Ssu, Lover of Hills; Spending the Night in the Preparation of Wine

Autumn River Song

Poem Sent on Hearing That Wang Ch'ang-ling Had Been Exiled to Lung Piao

The River Village

The Excursion

Sent to Li Po as a Gift

The Sorceress Gorge

Together We Know Happiness

from Songs of the Courtesans

from After How Many Years

from What's O'Clock (1925)

Merely Statement

Vespers

White Currants

Afterglow

Lilacs

Meeting-House Hill

The Sisters

Nuit Blanche

Orientation

The Humming-birds

The Sand Altar

Time-Web

Katydids

Eleonora Duse

Posthumously Published Poems

The Doll

To a Lady of Undeniable Beauty and Practised Charm

Caustic

Carrefour

Granadilla

Threnody

After an Illness

The Mirror

New Heavens for Old

Anecdote

Still Life

Poetic Justice

To Francesca Braggiotti

Dissonance

A Rainy Night

Biographical Note

Note on the Texts

Notes

Index of Titles and First Lines