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A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume...
— Amy Lowell
Tags: poetry, lilac, garden, cats

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I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.
— Amy Lowell
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
— Amy Lowell
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Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
— Amy Lowell
Tags: greed, earth, time, best
Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.
— Amy Lowell
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Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
— Amy Lowell
Tags: descending, vulture, place, hate
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