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Poem by Amy Lowell


Song


Oh!  To be a flower
Nodding in the sun,
Bending, then upspringing
As the breezes run;
Holding up
A scent-brimmed cup,
Full of summer’s fragrance to the summer sun.
Oh!  To be a butterfly
Still, upon a flower,
Winking with its painted wings,
Happy in the hour.
Blossoms hold
Mines of gold
Deep within the farthest heart of each chaliced flower.
Oh!  To be a cloud
Blowing through the blue,
Shadowing the mountains,
Rushing loudly through
Valleys deep
Where torrents keep
Always their plunging thunder and their misty arch of blue.
Oh!  To be a wave
Splintering on the sand,
Drawing back, but leaving
Lingeringly the land.
Rainbow light
Flashes bright
Telling tales of coral caves half hid in yellow sand.
Soon they die, the flowers;
Insects live a day;
Clouds dissolve in showers;
Only waves at play
Last forever.
Shall endeavor
Make a sea of purpose mightier than we dream to-day?



Amy Lowell


Amy Lowell's other poems:
  1. At Night
  2. Petals
  3. The Pike
  4. Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris
  5. The Captured Goddess


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Samuel Johnson Song ("Not the soft sighs of vernal gales")
  • Charlotte Mew Song ("Love love to-day, my dear")
  • John Davidson Song ("THE boat is chafing at our long delay")
  • Percy Shelley Song ("Rarely, rarely, comest thou")
  • George Etherege Song ("LADIES, though to your conquering eyes")
  • Edgar Poe Song ("I saw thee on thy bridal day") 1827
  • Bryan Procter Song ("Here's a health to thee, Mary")
  • Bayard Taylor Song ("NOW the days are brief and drear")
  • Mary Chudleigh Song ("Why, Damon, why, why, why so pressing?")
  • Isaac Bickerstaffe Song ("How happy were my days, till now")
  • George Lyttelton Song ("When Delia on the plain appears") 1732
  • Philip Massinger Song ("Why art thou slow, thou rest of trouble, Death")
  • Hilaire Belloc Song ("Inviting the influence of a young lady upon the opening year")
  • Elinor Wylie Song ("It is my thoughts that colour")
  • Mary Montagu Song ("How happy is the harden'd heart")
  • Emma Lazarus Song ("Frosty lies the winter-landscape")
  • Richard Sheridan Song ("Here’s to the maiden of bashful fifteen")
  • George Crabbe Song ("Cease to bid me not to sing")
  • Anna Seward Song ("FROM thy waves, stormy Llannon, I fly")
  • Aubrey De Vere Song ("HIS war-horse beats a distant bourne")
  • Edith Nesbit Song ("NOW the Spring is waking")
  • Maria Lowell Song ("O BIRD, thou dartest to the sun")
  • William Monkhouse Song ("WHO calls me bold because I won my love")
  • Eliza Acton Song ("Give me gay music !—we will not dwell")
  • Thomas Eliot Song ("If space and time, as sages say") 1907
  • Christina Rossetti Song ("O roses for the flush of youth")
  • Irwin Ginsberg Song ("The weight of the world") 1954

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