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Amy Lowell: Madonna of the Evening Flowers
Madonna of the Evening FlowersAmy LowellAll day long I have been working, Now I am tired. I call: "Where are you?" But there is only the oak tree rustling in the wind. The house is very…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Clark, August 23, 1804
Day 215 Day 217 Clark, August 23, 1804 23rd August Thursday 1804 Set out this morning verry early the two men with the horses did not Come up last night I walked on Shore & Killed a…Walt Whitman: The City Dead-House
The City Dead-HouseBy the city dead-house by the gate, As idly sauntering wending my way from the clangor, I curious pause, for lo, an outcast form, a poor dead prostitute brought, Her corpse…Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Letter
A LetterDear brother, would you know the life, Please God, that I would lead? On the first wheels that quit this weary town Over yon western bridges I would ride And with a cheerful benison…Amy Lowell: The Way
The WayAt first a mere thread of a footpath half blotted out by the grasses Sweeping triumphant across it, it wound between hedges of roses Whose blossoms were poised above leaves as pond…Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass, Mannahatta
MannahattaI was asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon lo! upsprang the aboriginal name.Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical…Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Summer Evening Churchyard
by Percy Bysshe Shelley On DeathTo -A Summer Evening Churchyard Lechlade, Gloucestershire The wind has swept from the wide atmosphere Each vapour that obscured the sunset's ray; And…Amy Lowell: J—K. Huysmans
J—K. HuysmansA flickering glimmer through a window-pane, A dim red glare through mud bespattered glass, Cleaving a path between blown walls of sleet Across uneven pavements sunk in slime To…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: August 23, 1804
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark August 22, 1804August 24, 1804August 23, 1804 23rd August Thursday 1804 Set out this morning verry early, the two men R. Fields & Shannon did…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Lewis, July 19, 1806
Day 1508 Day 1510 Lewis, July 19, 1806 Saturday July 19th 1806. Drewyer and J. Fields set out early this morning in conformity to my instructions last evening. they returned at 1/2 after 12…Trending
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