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…
Amy LowellDedicationLife, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity. Shelley , Adonais. Le silence est si grand que mon coeur en frissonne, Seul, le bruit de…
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