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Robert Lowell (1917 - 1977 / Boston / United States)
Poems of Robert Lowell
| 1. | "To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage" | 1/20/2003 |
| 2. | After The Surprising Conversions | 4/8/2010 |
| 3. | Children of Light | 1/3/2003 |
| 4. | Dolphin | 1/3/2003 |
| 5. | Epilogue | 1/3/2003 |
| 6. | Falling Asleep Over The Aeneid | 4/8/2010 |
| 7. | For the Union Dead | 1/3/2003 |
| 8. | History | 1/3/2003 |
| 9. | Home After Three Months Away | 1/3/2003 |
| 10. | Homecoming | 1/3/2003 |
| 11. | Man and Wife | 1/3/2003 |
| 12. | Memories of West Street and Lepke | 1/3/2003 |
| 13. | Mr. Edwards and the Spider | 4/8/2010 |
| 14. | My Last Afternoon With Uncle Devereux Winslow | 4/8/2010 |
| 15. | Sailing Home From Rapallo | 4/8/2010 |
| 16. | Skunk Hour | 1/3/2003 |
| 17. | The Drunken Fisherman | 1/3/2003 |
| 18. | The Old Flame | 1/3/2003 |
| 19. | The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket | 1/3/2003 |
| 20. | To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage | 1/3/2003 |
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Children of Light
Our fathers wrung their bread from stocks and stones
And fenced their gardens with the Redmen's bones;
Embarking from the Nether Land of Holland,
Pilgrims unhouseled by Geneva's night,
They planted here the Serpent's seeds of light;
And here the pivoting searchlights probe to shock
The riotous glass houses built on rock,
And candles gutter by an empty altar,
And light is where the landless blood of Cain
