Acknowledgments and Permissions
A Note on the Text
Introductions
``Let us Shout it Lustily'': Amy Lowell's Career in Context / Melissa Bradshaw
Amy lowell, new american poet / Adrienne Munich
Chronology
I. Traditional Forms and Variations
Sonnets, Rhymed Stanzas, and Blank Verse -
A Fixed Idea
On Carpaccio's Picture: The Dream of St. Ursula
The Starling
Mirage
A Petition
In Answer to a Request
Eleonora Duse
To a Lady of Undeniable Beauty and Practised Charm
Before the Altar
Apology
After Writing ``The Bronze Horses''
Merely Statement
Gavotte in D Minor
Song for a Viola D'Amore
Nuit Blanche
On Looking at a Copy of Alice Meynell's Poems, Given Me, Years Ago, by a Friend / The Sisters
Adapted Asian Forms and Translations from the Chinese -
Aliens
The Pond
A Lover
To a Husband
A Year Passes
Ephemera
Autumn
One of the ``Hundred Views of Fuji'' by Hokusai
The Fisherman's Wife
Outside a Gate
In Time of War
Li T'ai-po
Frosty Evening
A Poet's Wife
The Return
Nuance
Autumn Haze
Nuit Blanche
Again the New Year's Festival
Time
Nostalgia
Afterglow
Vespers
The Battle to the South of the City, by Li T'ai-po
The Retreat of Hsieh Kung, by Li T'ai-po
The Terraced Road of the Two-Edged Sword Mountains, by Li T'ai-po
Looking at the Moon after Rain, by Li T'ai-po
The Lonely Wife, by Li T'ai-po
On Hearing the Buddhist Priest of Shu Play His Table-Lute, by Li T'ai-po
Parrot Island, by Li T'ai-po
Reply to an Unrefined Person Encountered in the Hills, by Li T'ai-po
Night Thoughts, by Li T'ai-po
In the Province of Lu, to the East of the Stone Gate Mountain, Taking Leave of Tu Fu, by Li T'ai-po
A Poem Sent to Tu Fu from Sha Ch'iu Ch'eng, by Li T'ai-po
The River Village, by Tu Fu
The Sorceress Gorge, by Tu Fu
At the Edge of Heaven, Thinking of Li Po, by Tu Fu
Sent to Li Po as a Gift, by Tu Fu
A Toast for Meng Yun-ch'ing, by Tu Fu
The Blue-Green Stream, by Wang Wei
Together We Know Happiness, written by a descendant of the founder of the Southern T'ang Dynasty
II. Cadenced Verse In a Garden
Absence
Aubade
White and Green
The Captured Goddess
The Taxi
The Blue Scarf
The Letter
Pine, Beech, and Sunlight
Astigmatism
The Giver of Stars
Bright Sunlight
Venus Transiens
A Rainy Night
Patterns
Strain
from Stravinsky's Three Pieces ``Grotesques,'' for String Quartet, Second Movement
Summer Rain
A Decade
An Aquarium
Thompson's Lunch Room---Grand Central Station
Opal
Mise en Scene
Wakefulness
A Bather
Madonna of the Evening Flowers
from Dreams in War Time
A Sprig of Rosemary
The Broken Fountain
The Weathervane Points South
The Artist
Vernal Equinox
Penumbra
September. 1918
Granadilla
Carrefour
Lilacs
Meeting-House Hill
Footing Up a Total
Paradox
Purple Grackles
In Excelsis
On Reading a Line Underscored by Keats
Dissonance
Heraldic
Attitude under an Elm Tree
Sultry
The On-looker
Poetic Justice
Mid-adventure
Anecdote
Still Life
III. Polyphonic Prose
Spring Day
from Malmaison
from Sea-Blue and Blood-Red
from Guns As Keys: And the Great Gate Swings
Notes to the Poems
