Amy Lowell

Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914) is a poetry collection by Amy Lowell. Published at the beginning of her career as an influential imagist devoted to classical poetic themes and forms, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed is an agile and promising work from a pioneering poet of the early twentieth century. The title poem of Lowell's collection is an imaginative voyage into the mind of a poet struggling with writer's block, who scans the city for "the slightest...

Published seven years after her debut collection A Dome of Many-Coloured Glasses, Pictures of the Floating World (1919), is another dazzling volume of poetry from the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Amy Lowell. Divided into two sections; Pictures of the Floating World finds inspiration from both Japanese and Chinese poetry, with Lowell trying her hand at the hokku and Chinoiserie. In poems like "Reflections" and "Falling Snow," Lowell paints delicate...

CONTENTS Richard Aldington Childhood The Poplar Round-Pond Daisy Epigrams The Faun sees Snow for the First Time Lemures H. D. The Pool The Garden Sea Lily Sea Iris Sea Rose Oread Orion Dead John Gould Fletcher The Blue Symphony London Excursion F. S. Flint Trees Lunch Malady Accident Fragment Houses Eau-Forte D. H. Lawrence Ballad of Another Ophelia Illicit Fireflies in the Corn A Woman and Her Dead Husband The Mowers Scent of Irises Green Amy...