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The poem "Clocks Tick a Century Nightmare: The Paper Windmill" by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: The little boy pressed his face against the window-pane and looked out; Last Line: bit of paper on the floor.

The poem "Paper Fishes" by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: THE paper carp, Last Line: Forever swallowing the wind.

The poem "The Basket," by Amy Lowell, is presented. First Line: THE inkstand is full of ink, and the paper lies white; Last Line: Annette!

Presents the poem "The Basket," by Amy Lowell. First Line: The inkstand is full of ink, and the paper lies white and unspotted, Last Line: Annette!

The poem "Planning the Garden" by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: BEING pencils, fine pointed, Last Line: Let us go to bed and dream of flowers.

The poem "The Letter" by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: LITTLE cramped words scrawling all over the paper; Last Line; Of the great moon.

The poem "In a Castle," by Amy Lowell, is presented. First Line: OVER the yawning chimney hangs the fog. Drip- Last Line: After having been burnt by royal command.

Part I of the poem "Guns As Keys: And the Great Gate Swings," by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: DUE East, far West. Distant as the nests of the; Last Line: Above the temple gateway.

The poem "Figurines in Old Saxe: 1777" by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: The throats of the little red trumpet-flowers are wide open, Last Line: Fall.

The poem "Disillusion" by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: A SCHOLAR, Last Line: And perished.

The poem "War Pictures: The Allies" by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: Into the brazen, burnished sky, the cry hurls itself. The zigzagging cry; Last Line: PEACE!

The poem "Misericordia" by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: HE earned his bread by making wooden soldiers; Last Line: Of a cavalry sword.

The poem "Castles in Spain" by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: I BUILD my poems with little strokes of ink; Last Line: Fade, and persist, and rise again, like flowers.

Presents the poem "The Shadow," by Amy Lowell. First Line: Paul Jannes was working very late, Last Line: Such watches, and the prices were high.

Presents the poem "The Great Adventure of Max Breuck," by Amy Lowell. First Line: A yellow band of light upon the street; Last Line: The cold stars winked and glittered at his chilling corpse.

Presents the poem "Sword Blades and Poppy Seed," by Amy Lowell. First Line: A drifting, April, twilight sky, Last Line: Another day was just begun.

The poem "The Shadow," by Amy Lowell, is presented. First Line: PANELS of claret and blue which shine; Last Line: Such watches, and the prices were high.

The poem "The Great Adventure of Max Breuck," by Amy Lowell, is presented. First Line: A YELLOW band of light upon the street; Last Line: corpse.

The poem "Sword Blades and Poppy Seed," by Amy Lowell, is presented. First Line: A DRIFTING, April, twilight sky, Last Line: Another day was just begun.

The poem "On a Certain Critic" by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: WELL, John Keats, Last Line: In the bodies of innumerable worms.

The poem "Appuldurcombe Park" by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: I AM a woman, sick for passion, Last Line: So strangely long.

The poem "Free Fantasia on Japanese Themes" by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: ALL the afternoon there has been a chirping of birds, Last Line: And inside, only my books.

The poem "The Statue of Garden," by Amy Lowell is presented.

The poem "The Bronze Horses," by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: Earth, Air, Water, and Fire! Earth beneath, Air; Last Line: in the fire of the sun.

A preface to the book "Legends," by Amy Lowell is presented.

The poem "Sea-Blue and Blood-Red," by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: BLUE as the tip of a salvia blossom, the inverted; Last Line: for remembrance. It will only cost a sou.

The poem "Clocks Tick a Century Nightmare: Towns in Colour" by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: Red slippers in a shop-window, and outside in the street, flaws of grey, Last Line: Rise steadily beyond the outer islands.

The poem "Clocks Tick a Century Nightmare: A Tale for an Autumn Evening After a Print by George Cruikshank" by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: It was a gusty night, Last Line: While the bells of St. George the Martyr chimed the quarter after seven.

The poem "Figurines in Old Saxe: A Roxbury Garden" by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: Blue and Pink sashes; Last Line: And after dinner there are lessons.

Presents the poem "In a Castle," by Amy Lowell. First Line: Over the yawning chimney hangs the fog. Drip—hiss—drip—hiss— Last Line: After having been burnt by royal command.

The poem "Penumbra" by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: As I sit here in the quiet Summer night, Last Line: And the quick, necessary touch of my hand.

Presents the poem "The Breaking Out of the Flags," by Amy Lowell. First Line: It is April, Last Line: Flags of fulfillment.

The poem "Clocks Tick a Century Nightmare: The Red Lacquer Music-Stand" by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: A music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since brought; Last Line: The Boy began to dress, for it was getting late.

The poem "Clocks Tick a Century Nightmare: The Dinner-Party" by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: "So . . ." they said, Last Line: For only living flesh can suffer.

The poem "Clocks Tick a Century Nightmare: Spring Day" by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: The day is fresh-washed and fair, and there is a smell of tulips and narcissus; Last Line: tulips and narcissus . . . I smell them in the air.

The poem "War Pictures: The Bombardment" by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: Slowly, without force, the rain drops into the city. It stops a moment; Last Line: The water rushes along the gutters. The fire roars and mutters. Boom!

The poem "Figurines in Old Saxe: Patterns" by Amy Lowell is presented. First Line: I walk down the garden paths, Last Line: Christ! What are patterns for?

Presents the prose poem "The Forsaken," by Amy Lowell. First Line: Holy Mother of God, Merciful Mary. Last Line: He is only a poor lace-maker's baby, with a stain upon him, but give me strength to bring him up to be a man.

Presents the poem "Clear, with Light, Variable Winds," by Amy Lowell. First Line: The fountain bent and straightened itself; Last Line: "It is uncanny to see a dead man staring at the sun."

A preface to the book "Men, Women and Ghosts" by Amy Lowell is presented.