Share this poet:
Amy Lowell
|
 |
|
Amy Lowell Poems
- Patterns I walk down the garden-paths, And all the ...
- A Lady You are beautiful and faded Like an old opera tune ...
- A Little Song When you, my Dear, are away, away, How ...
- A Japanese Wood-Carving High up above the open, welcoming ...
- To A Friend I ask but one thing of you, only one, That ...
- Aftermath I learnt to write to you in happier days, And ...
- A Fairy Tale On winter nights beside the nursery fire We ...
an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.
Personal Life
Lowell was born into Brookline's prominent Lowell family, sister to astronomer Percival Lowell and Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell.
She never attended college because her family did not consider that proper for a woman, but she compensated with avid reading and near-obsessive book collecting. She lived as a socialite and travelled widely, turning to poetry in 1902 after being inspired by a performance of Eleonora Duse in Europe.
Lowell was said to be lesbian, and in 1912 she and actress Ada Dwyer ... more »
Click here to add this poet to your My Favorite Poets.
Comments about Amy Lowell
Patterns
I walk down the garden-paths,
And all the daffodils
Are blowing, and the bright blue squills.
I walk down the patterned garden-paths
In my stiff, brocaded gown.
With my powdered hair and jeweled fan,
I too am a rare
Pattern. As I wander down
The garden-paths.
My dress is richly figured,
And the train
Makes a pink and silver stain
On the gravel, and the thrift
Of the borders.
Just a plate of current fashion,
Tripping by in high-heeled, ribboned shoes.
Not a softness anywhere about me,
Only whalebone and brocade.
And I sink ...
