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Sword Blades and Poppy Seed

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Sword Blades and Poppy Seed

by Amy Lowell

English· 03:26:25· 60 chapters
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)
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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Preface

    08:17
  2. Chapter 2

    Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds

    25:40
  3. Chapter 3

    Sword Blades - The Captured Goddess

    02:20
  4. Chapter 4

    Sword Blades - The Precinct, Rochester

    04:08
  5. Chapter 5

    Sword Blades - The Cyclists

    01:01
  6. Chapter 6

    Sword Blades - Sunshine through a Cobwebbed Window

    01:46
  7. Chapter 7

    Sword Blades - A London Thoroughfare. 2 AM.

    01:49
  8. Chapter 8

    Sword Blades - Astigmatism

    03:26
  9. Chapter 9

    Sword Blades - The Coal Picker

    03:33
  10. Chapter 10

    Sword Blades - Storm-Racked

    01:23
  11. Chapter 11

    Sword Blades - Convalescence

    01:19
  12. Chapter 12

    Sword Blades - Patience

    01:52
  13. Chapter 13

    Sword Blades - Apology

    01:43
  14. Chapter 14

    Sword Blades - A Petition

    01:13
  15. Chapter 15

    Sword Blades - A Blockhead

    01:27
  16. Chapter 16

    Sword Blades - Stupidity

    01:29
  17. Chapter 17

    Sword Blades - Irony

    01:26
  18. Chapter 18

    Sword Blades - Happiness

    01:31
  19. Chapter 19

    Sword Blades - The Last Quarter of the Moon

    02:48
  20. Chapter 20

    Sword Blades - A Tale of Starvation

    08:00
  21. Chapter 21

    Sword Blades - The Foreigner

    02:54
  22. Chapter 22

    Sword Blades - Absence

    01:04
  23. Chapter 23

    Sword Blades - A Gift

    00:57
  24. Chapter 24

    Sword Blades - The Bungler

    00:33
  25. Chapter 25

    Sword Blades - Fool's Money Bags

    01:00
  26. Chapter 26

    Sword Blades - Miscast I

    01:01
  27. Chapter 27

    Sword Blades - Miscast II

    00:41
  28. Chapter 28

    Sword Blades - Anticipation

    00:48
  29. Chapter 29

    Sword Blades - Vintage

    01:19
  30. Chapter 30

    Sword Blades - The Tree of Scarlet Berries

    01:06
  31. Chapter 31

    Sword Blades - Obligation

    00:54
  32. Chapter 32

    Sword Blades - The Taxi

    00:56
  33. Chapter 33

    Sword Blades - The Giver of Stars

    01:08
  34. Chapter 34

    Sword Blades - The Temple

    01:09
  35. Chapter 35

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

    00:29
  36. Chapter 36

    Sword Blades - In Answer to a Request

    01:08
  37. Chapter 37

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

    05:20
  38. Chapter 38

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

    05:19
  39. Chapter 39

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

    05:34
  40. Chapter 40

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

    05:26
  41. Chapter 41

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

    05:17
  42. Chapter 42

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

    05:02
  43. Chapter 43

    Poppy Seed - Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris

    04:31
  44. Chapter 44

    Poppy Seed - After Hearing a Waltz by Bartók

    04:17
  45. Chapter 45

    Poppy Seed - Clear, With Light, Variable Winds

    02:40
  46. Chapter 46

    Poppy Seed - The Basket

    07:55
  47. Chapter 47

    Poppy Seed - In a Castle

    07:23
  48. Chapter 48

    Poppy Seed - The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde

    14:32
  49. Chapter 49

    Poppy Seed - The Exeter Road

    03:07
  50. Chapter 50

    Poppy Seed - The Shadow

    19:38
  51. Chapter 51

    Poppy Seed - The Forsaken

    05:27
  52. Chapter 52

    Poppy Seed - Late September

    01:22
  53. Chapter 53

    Poppy Seed - The Pike

    00:58
  54. Chapter 54

    Poppy Seed - The Blue Scarf

    02:30
  55. Chapter 55

    Poppy Seed - White and Green

    00:42
  56. Chapter 56

    Poppy Seed - Aubade

    00:32
  57. Chapter 57

    Poppy Seed - Music

    01:34
  58. Chapter 58

    Poppy Seed - A Lady

    01:10
  59. Chapter 59

    Poppy Seed - In a Garden

    01:35
  60. Chapter 60

    Poppy Seed - A Tulip Garden

    01:16