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Amy Lowell

Amy Lowell was born in 1874 at Sevenels, a ten-acre family estate in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her family was Episcopalian, of old New England stock, and at the top of Boston...
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	FURTHER READING


		Poems About Difficult Love
		A Love Song by William Carlos Williams, read by Ron Silliman

		Anna, Thy Charms by Robert Burns

		Be Near Me by Faiz Ahmed Faiz

		Caboose Thoughts by Carl Sandburg

		Dregs by César Vallejo

		He would not stay for me, and who can wonder by A. E. Housman

		I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale

		I Do Not Love Thee by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

		Last Words to Miriam by D. H. Lawrence

		Love's Secret by William Blake

		Loving and Beloved by Sir John Suckling

		Never give all the heart by W. B. Yeats

		One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

		Sonnet 102 [If no love is, O God, what fele I so?] by Petrarch

		Sonnet 12 [Alas, so all things now do hold their peace] by Petrarch

		The Barrier by Claude McKay

		The More Loving One by W. H. Auden, read by Nick Laird

		The Peace That So Lovingly Descends by Noelle Kocot

		To His Coy Love by Michael Drayton

		What Do I Care by Sara Teasdale

		What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

		Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand by Walt Whitman

		Witch-Wife by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Opal
by Amy Lowell

You are ice and fire, The touch of you burns my hands like snow. You are cold and flame. You are the crimson of amaryllis, The silver of moon-touched magnolias. When I am with you, My heart is a frozen pond Gleaming with agitated torches.
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