Sword Blades and Poppy Seed

by Amy Lowell

60 chapters3h 26mEnglish1914

About this book

This is a volume of poems by Amy Lowell, published in 1914. "Against the multitudinous array of daily verse our times produce this volume utters itself with a range and brilliancy wholly remarkable. I cannot see that Miss Lowell's use of unrhymed 'vers libre' has been surpassed in English. Read 'The Captured Goddess', 'Music', and 'The Precinct. Rochester', a piece of mastercraft in this kind. A wealth of subtleties and sympathies, gorgeously wrought, full of macabre effects (as many of the poems are) and brilliantly worked out. The things of splendor she has made she will hardly outdo in their kind." (Josephine Preston Peabody, 'The Boston Herald', 1916)

Chapters (60)

1Preface

497

2Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds

1540

3Sword Blades - The Captured Goddess

140

4Sword Blades - The Precinct, Rochester

248

5Sword Blades - The Cyclists

6Sword Blades - Sunshine through a Cobwebbed Window

106

7Sword Blades - A London Thoroughfare. 2 AM.

109

8Sword Blades - Astigmatism

206

9Sword Blades - The Coal Picker

213

10Sword Blades - Storm-Racked

11Sword Blades - Convalescence

12Sword Blades - Patience

112

13Sword Blades - Apology

103

14Sword Blades - A Petition

15Sword Blades - A Blockhead

16Sword Blades - Stupidity

17Sword Blades - Irony

18Sword Blades - Happiness

19Sword Blades - The Last Quarter of the Moon

168

20Sword Blades - A Tale of Starvation

480

21Sword Blades - The Foreigner

174

22Sword Blades - Absence

23Sword Blades - A Gift

24Sword Blades - The Bungler

25Sword Blades - Fool's Money Bags

26Sword Blades - Miscast I

27Sword Blades - Miscast II

28Sword Blades - Anticipation

29Sword Blades - Vintage

30Sword Blades - The Tree of Scarlet Berries

31Sword Blades - Obligation

32Sword Blades - The Taxi

33Sword Blades - The Giver of Stars

34Sword Blades - The Temple

35Sword Blades - Epitaph of a Young Poet Who Died before Having Achieved Success

36Sword Blades - In Answer to a Request

37Poppy Seed - The Great Adventure of Max Breuck, 1-11

320

38Poppy Seed - The Great Adventure of Max Breuck, 12-22

319

39Poppy Seed - The Great Adventure of Max Breuck, 23-33

334

40Poppy Seed - The Great Adventure of Max Breuck, 34-44

326

41Poppy Seed - The Great Adventure of Max Breuck, 45-55

317

42Poppy Seed - The Great Adventure of Max Breuck, 56-65

302

43Poppy Seed - Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris

271

44Poppy Seed - After Hearing a Waltz by Bartók

257

45Poppy Seed - Clear, With Light, Variable Winds

160

46Poppy Seed - The Basket

475

47Poppy Seed - In a Castle

443

48Poppy Seed - The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde

872

49Poppy Seed - The Exeter Road

187

50Poppy Seed - The Shadow

1178

51Poppy Seed - The Forsaken

327

52Poppy Seed - Late September

53Poppy Seed - The Pike

54Poppy Seed - The Blue Scarf

150

55Poppy Seed - White and Green

56Poppy Seed - Aubade

57Poppy Seed - Music

58Poppy Seed - A Lady

59Poppy Seed - In a Garden

60Poppy Seed - A Tulip Garden

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