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A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass

Amy Lowell

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A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass | Amy Lowell

A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass

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This is a collection of lyrical poems, sonnets and verses for children by Amy Lowell.
Thank God that I have known a soul so true, So nobly just, so worthy to be loved!"




Fatigue

          Stupefy my heart to every day's monotony,
           Seal up my eyes, I would not look so far,
          Chasten my steps to peaceful regularity,
           Bow down my head lest I behold a star.

          Fill my days with work, a thousand calm necessities
           Leaving no moment to consecrate to hope,
          Girdle my thoughts within the dull circumferences
           Of facts which form the actual in one short hour's scope.

          Give me dreamless sleep, and loose night's power over me,
           Shut my ears to sounds only tumultuous then,
          Bid Fancy slumber, and steal away its potency,
           Or Nature wakes and strives to live again.

          Let each day pass, well ordered in its usefulness,
           Unlit by sunshine, unscarred by storm;
          Dower me with strength and curb all foolish eagerness —
           The law exacts obedience.  Instruct, I will conform.




A Japanese Wood-Carving

          High up above the open, welcoming door
          It hangs, a piece of wood with colours dim.
          Once, long ago, it was a waving tree
          And knew the sun and shadow through the leaves
          Of forest trees, in a thick eastern wood.
          The winter snows had bent its branches down,
          The spring had swelled its buds with coming flowers,
          Summer had run like fire through its veins,
          While autumn pelted it with chestnut burrs,
          And strewed the leafy ground with acorn cups.
          Dark midnight storms had roared and crashed among
          Its branches, breaking here and t
              
Bernie 10/09/2024
This was Lowell's first published collection (1912,) and my 5-stars notwithstanding, it is not everyone's cup of tea. I think I understand why this is. If you read some of Lowell's more popular and highly anthologized poems, you might find that this collection is unlike them in several ways. Many of
E. Merrill 11/22/2023
I was excited to read A Dome Of Many Colored Glass, Lowell's most canonical book, after having stumbled across "Aubade," "A Decade," and "September, 1918." Sadly, I was mostly disappointed. The book seems to capture much of what is good in modernism, and in earlier sentimental and romantic poetry, w
Steven 05/06/2019
very beautiful poem/

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