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)
Latest episodes of the podcast Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
- Preface
- Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds
- Sword Blades - The Captured Goddess
- Sword Blades - The Precinct, Rochester
- Sword Blades - The Cyclists
- Sword Blades - Sunshine through a Cobwebbed Window
- Sword Blades - A London Thoroughfare. 2 AM.
- Sword Blades - Astigmatism
- Sword Blades - The Coal Picker
- Sword Blades - Storm-Racked
- Sword Blades - Convalescence
- Sword Blades - Patience
- Sword Blades - Apology
- Sword Blades - A Petition
- Sword Blades - A Blockhead
- Sword Blades - Stupidity
- Sword Blades - Irony
- Sword Blades - Happiness
- Sword Blades - The Last Quarter of the Moon
- Sword Blades - A Tale of Starvation
- Sword Blades - The Foreigner
- Sword Blades - Absence
- Sword Blades - A Gift
- Sword Blades - The Bungler
- Sword Blades - Fool's Money Bags
- Sword Blades - Miscast I
- Sword Blades - Miscast II
- Sword Blades - Anticipation
- Sword Blades - Vintage
- Sword Blades - The Tree of Scarlet Berries
- Sword Blades - Obligation
- Sword Blades - The Taxi
- Sword Blades - The Giver of Stars
- Sword Blades - The Temple
- Sword Blades - Epitaph of a Young Poet Who Died before Having Achieved Success
- Sword Blades - In Answer to a Request
- Poppy Seed - The Great Adventure of Max Breuck, 1-11
- Poppy Seed - The Great Adventure of Max Breuck, 12-22
- Poppy Seed - The Great Adventure of Max Breuck, 23-33
- Poppy Seed - The Great Adventure of Max Breuck, 34-44
- Poppy Seed - The Great Adventure of Max Breuck, 45-55
- Poppy Seed - The Great Adventure of Max Breuck, 56-65
- Poppy Seed - Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris
- Poppy Seed - After Hearing a Waltz by Bartók
- Poppy Seed - Clear, With Light, Variable Winds
- Poppy Seed - The Basket
- Poppy Seed - In a Castle
- Poppy Seed - The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde
- Poppy Seed - The Exeter Road
- Poppy Seed - The Shadow
- Poppy Seed - The Forsaken
- Poppy Seed - Late September
- Poppy Seed - The Pike
- Poppy Seed - The Blue Scarf
- Poppy Seed - White and Green
- Poppy Seed - Aubade
- Poppy Seed - Music
- Poppy Seed - A Lady
- Poppy Seed - In a Garden
- Poppy Seed - A Tulip Garden