Amy Lowell

Amy Lowell of Brookline, Massachusetts, was the fifth of five children. Her nearest sister was 12 years older. When Lowell was just 17 she had to leave private school to care for her parents who were already nearing their

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August (Late Afternoon)

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L ate A fternoon

Smoke-colour, rose, saffron,
With a hard edge chipping the blue sky,
A great cloud hung over the village,
And the white-painted meeting-house,
And the steeple with the gilded weather-cock
Heading and flashing to the wind.

Poets Book of Days

August 20

Emily Jane Brontëborn, 1818

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

What famous sonnet was written by Percy Bysshe Shelley as part of a competition with his friend Horace Smith over who could write a better poem in reaction to a news story about archeological discoveries in Egypt?

Answer

"Ozymandias"