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Poem by Amy Lowell


Fragment (What is poetry? Is it a mosaic)


What is poetry? Is it a mosaic
Of coloured stones which curiously are wrought
Into a pattern?  Rather glass that’s taught
By patient labor any hue to take
And glowing with a sumptuous splendor, make
Beauty a thing of awe; where sunbeams caught,
Transmuted fall in sheafs of rainbows fraught
With storied meaning for religion’s sake.



Amy Lowell


Amy Lowell's other poems:
  1. The Pike
  2. At Night
  3. The Painter on Silk
  4. Miscast I
  5. Fringed Gentians


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