Amy Lowell
Who is Amy Lowell
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.
Life
Amy Lowell was born on February 9, 1874, in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Augustus Lowell and Katherine Bigelow Lowell. A member of the Brahmin Lowell family, her siblings included the astronomer Percival Lowell, the educator and legal scholar Abbott Lawrence Lowell, and Elizabeth Lowell Putnam, an early activist for prenatal care. They were the great-grandchildren of John Lowell and, on their mother's side, the grandchildren of Abbott Lawrence.School was a source of considerable despair for the young Amy Lowell. She considered herself to ...
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Amy Lowell Poems
- Malmaison
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How the slates of the roof sparkle in the sun, over there, over there,
beyond the high wall! How quietly the Seine runs in loops and windings,
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- To A Husband
Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River
Are your words in the dark, Beloved.
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- Aliens
The chatter of little people
Breaks on my purpose
Like the water-drops which slowly wear the rocks to powder.
And while I laugh
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- Two Lacquer Prints
The Emperor's Garden
ONCE, in the sultry heat of midsummer,
An Emperor caused the miniature mountains in his garden
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- Women's Harvest Song
I am waving a ripe sunflower,
I am scattering sunflower pollen to the four world-quarters.
I am joyful because of my melons,
I am joyful because of my beans,
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- Muku18290: for books are more than books, they are the lifethe very heart and core of ages past,the reason why men lived and worked and died,the essence and quintessence of their lives.,amy lowell,books, poetry,
- Midnite_pen: رشتو
vernal equinox
amy lowell - 1874-1925
1/2 the scent of hyacinths, like a pale mist, lies
between me and my book;
and the south wind, washing through the room,
makes the candles quiver.
my nerves sting at a spatter of rain on the shutter,
- Rgtrendsetter: take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
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- Ralphgailteamtp: take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
-amy lowell writers write. dreamers talk about it.
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