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Poetry · 1914

Sword Blades and Poppy Seed

Amy Lowell

Reading time
about 2 h
Length
25,810 words · 162 pages
Structure
55 sections · 2 front-matter sections
Language
English
Era
Modern

Sword Blades and Poppy Seed, first published in 1914, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Note
  2. Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
  3. Preface
  4. Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
  5. The Captured Goddess
  6. The Precinct. Rochester
  7. The Cyclists
  8. Sunshine through a Cobwebbed Window
  9. A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M
  10. Astigmatism
  11. The Coal Picker
  12. Storm-Racked
  13. Convalescence
  14. Patience
  15. Apology
  16. A Petition
  17. A Blockhead
  18. Stupidity
  19. Irony
  20. Happiness
  21. The Last Quarter of the Moon
  22. A Tale of Starvation
  23. The Foreigner
  24. Absence
  25. A Gift
  26. The Bungler
  27. Fool’s Money Bags
  28. Miscast I
  29. Miscast II
  30. Anticipation
  31. Vintage
  32. The Tree of Scarlet Berries
  33. Obligation
  34. The Taxi
  35. The Giver of Stars
  36. The Temple
  37. Epitaph of a Young Poet Who Died Before Having Achieved Success
  38. In Answer to a Request
  39. The Great Adventure of Max Breuck
  40. Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris
  41. After Hearing a Waltz by Bartók
  42. Clear, with Light, Variable Winds
  43. The Basket
  44. In a Castle
  45. The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde
  46. The Exeter Road
  47. The Shadow
  48. The Forsaken
  49. Late September
  50. The Pike
  51. The Blue Scarf
  52. White and Green
  53. Aubade
  54. Music
  55. A Lady
  56. In a Garden
  57. A Tulip Garden

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Amy Lowell

1874–1925 · Modern

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