Monadnock in Early Spring by Amy Lowell

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend April 12, 2015   Monadnock in Early Spring   Amy Lowell

Cloud-topped and splendid, dominating all     The little lesser hills which compass thee,     Thou standest, bright with April’s buoyancy, Yet holding Winter in some shaded wall Of stern, steep rock; and startled by the call     Of Spring, thy trees flush with expectancy     And cast a cloud of crimson, silently, Above thy snowy crevices where fall     Pale shrivelled oak leaves, while the snow beneath     Melts at their phantom touch. Another year Is quick with import. Such each year has been.     Unmoved thou watchest all, and all bequeath     Some jewel to thy diadem of power, Thou pledge of greater majesty unseen.            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   “Monadnock in Early Spring” was published in Lowell’s book A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912).   Amy Lowell was born on February 9, 1874, in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her books include Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914) and What’s O’ Clock (1925), which received the Pulitzer Prize. Lowell died on May 12, 1925, in Massachusetts. Poetry by Lowell   Selected Poems of Amy Lowell (Rutgers University Press, 2002) "Spring" by Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Enkindled Spring" by D. H. Lawrence "Spring in New Hampshire" by Claude McKay Read This Poem   For National Poetry Month, we’ve teamed up with 826 National to produce Read This Poem, a celebration of poets in cities with 826 chapters. Read this week’s featured poems by poets from Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038