Amy IrvingactressBorn: 9/10/1953Birthplace: Palo Alto, California Amy Irving first appeared on screen in Stephen King's Carrie (1976) and as the only survivor of the gym conflagration was able to…
Suggested by the Cover of a Volume of Keats's PoemsWild little bird, who chose thee for a sign
To put upon the cover of this book?
Who heard thee singing in the distance dim,
The vague, far…
On Carpaccio's Picture: The Dream of St. UrsulaSwept, clean, and still, across the polished floor
From some unshuttered casement, hid from sight,
The level sunshine slants, its greater…
Epitaph in a Church-Yard in Charleston, South Carolina GEORGE AUGUSTUS CLOUGH
A NATIVE OF LIVERPOOL,
DIED SUDDENLY OF "STRANGER'S FEVER"
NOV'R 5th 1843…
Thompson's Lunch Room — Grand Central StationStudy in WhitesWax-white —
Floor, ceiling, walls.
Ivory shadows
Over the pavement
Polished to cream surfaces
By constant sweeping.
The big room is…
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…
Stravinsky's Three Pieces "Grotesques", for String QuartetFirst MovementThin-voiced, nasal pipes
Drawing sound out and out
Until it is a screeching thread,
Sharp and cutting, sharp and…
"To-morrow to Fresh Woods and Pastures New"As for a moment he stands, in hardy masculine beauty,
Poised on the fircrested rock, over the pool which below him
Gleams in the wavering sunlight,…
Amy Van DykenBorn: Feb. 17, 1973Swimming first American woman to win four gold medals in one Olympics (1996); won the individual 50m freestyle, 100m butterfly, and was on the US team for the…
A LadyAmy LowellYou are beautiful and faded
Like an old opera tune
Played upon a harpsichord;
Or like the sun-flooded silks
Of an eighteenth-century boudoir.
In your eyes
Smoulder the fallen…
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