Sword Blades and Poppy Seed

Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925)

This is a volume of poems by Amy Lowell, published in 1914.

"Against the multitudinous array of daily verse our times produce this volume utters itself with a range and brilliancy wholly remarkable. I cannot see that Miss Lowell's use of unrhymed 'vers libre' has been surpassed in English. Read 'The Captured Goddess', 'Music', and 'The Precinct. Rochester', a piece of mastercraft in this kind. A wealth of subtleties and sympathies, gorgeously wrought, full of macabre effects (as many of the poems are) and brilliantly worked out. The things of splendor she has made she will hardly outdo in their kind." (Josephine Preston Peabody, 'The Boston Herald', 1916)

Genre(s): Poetry

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Preface Anusha Iyer
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Play 02 Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds Ken Masters
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Play 03 Sword Blades - The Captured Goddess Ken Masters
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Play 04 Sword Blades - The Precinct, Rochester Ken Masters
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Play 05 Sword Blades - The Cyclists Ken Masters
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Play 06 Sword Blades - Sunshine through a Cobwebbed Window Jairus Amar
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Play 07 Sword Blades - A London Thoroughfare. 2 AM. Ben Adams
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Play 08 Sword Blades - Astigmatism Lisa Reichert
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Play 09 Sword Blades - The Coal Picker Ben Adams
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Play 10 Sword Blades - Storm-Racked Ken Masters
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Play 11 Sword Blades - Convalescence Ken Masters
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Play 12 Sword Blades - Patience Ken Masters
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Play 13 Sword Blades - Apology Ken Masters
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Play 14 Sword Blades - A Petition Ken Masters
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Play 15 Sword Blades - A Blockhead Ken Masters
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Play 16 Sword Blades - Stupidity Ken Masters
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Play 17 Sword Blades - Irony Ken Masters
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Play 18 Sword Blades - Happiness Leonard Wilson
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Play 19 Sword Blades - The Last Quarter of the Moon Leonard Wilson
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Play 20 Sword Blades - A Tale of Starvation Leonard Wilson
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Play 21 Sword Blades - The Foreigner Jairus Amar
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Play 22 Sword Blades - Absence Anusha Iyer
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Play 23 Sword Blades - A Gift Shakira Searle
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Play 24 Sword Blades - The Bungler Anusha Iyer
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Play 25 Sword Blades - Fool's Money Bags Anusha Iyer
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Play 26 Sword Blades - Miscast I Rosslyn Carlyle
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Play 27 Sword Blades - Miscast II Rosslyn Carlyle
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Play 28 Sword Blades - Anticipation Anusha Iyer
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Play 29 Sword Blades - Vintage Ben Adams
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Play 30 Sword Blades - The Tree of Scarlet Berries Ben Adams
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Play 31 Sword Blades - Obligation Ben Adams
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Play 32 Sword Blades - The Taxi Shakira Searle
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Play 33 Sword Blades - The Giver of Stars Shakira Searle
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Play 34 Sword Blades - The Temple Rosslyn Carlyle
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Play 35 Sword Blades - Epitaph of a Young Poet Who Died before Having Achieved Success Rosslyn Carlyle
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Play 36 Sword Blades - In Answer to a Request Rosslyn Carlyle
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Play 37 Poppy Seed - The Great Adventure of Max Breuck, 1-11 esheffield
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Play 38 Poppy Seed - The Great Adventure of Max Breuck, 12-22 esheffield
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Play 39 Poppy Seed - The Great Adventure of Max Breuck, 23-33 esheffield
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Play 40 Poppy Seed - The Great Adventure of Max Breuck, 34-44 esheffield
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Play 41 Poppy Seed - The Great Adventure of Max Breuck, 45-55 esheffield
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Play 42 Poppy Seed - The Great Adventure of Max Breuck, 56-65 esheffield
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Play 43 Poppy Seed - Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris Rosslyn Carlyle
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Play 44 Poppy Seed - After Hearing a Waltz by Bartók Rosslyn Carlyle
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Play 45 Poppy Seed - Clear, With Light, Variable Winds Anusha Iyer
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Play 46 Poppy Seed - The Basket Rosslyn Carlyle
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Play 47 Poppy Seed - In a Castle Rosslyn Carlyle
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Play 48 Poppy Seed - The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde Rosslyn Carlyle
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Play 49 Poppy Seed - The Exeter Road Rosslyn Carlyle
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Play 50 Poppy Seed - The Shadow Rosslyn Carlyle
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Play 51 Poppy Seed - The Forsaken Rosslyn Carlyle
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Play 52 Poppy Seed - Late September Rosslyn Carlyle
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Play 53 Poppy Seed - The Pike Rosslyn Carlyle
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Play 54 Poppy Seed - The Blue Scarf Shakira Searle
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Play 55 Poppy Seed - White and Green Rosslyn Carlyle
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Play 56 Poppy Seed - Aubade Rosslyn Carlyle
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Play 57 Poppy Seed - Music Shakira Searle
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Play 58 Poppy Seed - A Lady Shakira Searle
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Play 59 Poppy Seed - In a Garden Ben Adams
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Play 60 Poppy Seed - A Tulip Garden Rosslyn Carlyle
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