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Title: A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass

Author: Amy Lowell

Release Date: July 3, 2008 [EBook #261]

Language: English

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A DOME OF MANY-COLOURED GLASS

by Amy Lowell

[American (Massachusetts) poet and critic -- 1874-1925.]

[This etext has been transcribed from the 3rd printing (1916),
of the 1912 (original) edition.]

"Life, 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 mes pas sur le pave resonne."

Albert Samain.

Contents

Lyrical Poems

Before the Altar
Suggested by the Cover of a Volume of Keats's Poems
Apples of Hesperides
Azure and Gold
Petals
Venetian Glass
Fatigue
A Japanese Wood-Carving
A Little Song
Behind a Wall
A Winter Ride
A Coloured Print by Shokei
Song
The Fool Errant
The Green Bowl
Hora Stellatrix
Fragment
Loon Point
Summer
"To-morrow to Fresh Woods and Pastures New"
The Way
Diya {original title is Greek, Delta-iota-psi-alpha}
Roads
Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H.
The Road to Avignon
New York at Night
A Fairy Tale
Crowned
To Elizabeth Ward Perkins
The Promise of the Morning Star
J--K. Huysmans
March Evening

Sonnets

Leisure
On Carpaccio's Picture: The Dream of St. Ursula
The Matrix
Monadnock in Early Spring
The Little Garden
To an Early Daffodil
Listening
The Lamp of Life
Hero-Worship
In Darkness
Before Dawn
The Poet
At Night
The Fruit Garden Path
Mirage
To a Friend
A Fixed Idea
Dreams
Frankincense and Myrrh
From One Who Stays
Crepuscule du Matin
Afterm