A Dome Of Many Colored Glass Quotes

“Everything mortal has moments immortal”
― Amy Lowell, A Dome Of Many Colored Glass

“Fragment"

What is poetry? Is it a mosaic
Of coloured stones which curiously are wrought
Into a pattern? Rather glass that's taught
By patient labor any hue to take
And glowing with a sumptuous splendor, make
Beauty a thing of awe; where sunbeams caught,
Transmuted fall in sheafs of rainbows fraught
With storied meaning for religion's sake.”
― Amy Lowell, A Dome Of Many Colored Glass

“It's a little bit sad, when you seem very near
To adventures and things of that sort,
Which nearly begin, and then don't; and you know
It is only because you are short.”
― Amy Lowell, A Dome Of Many Colored Glass

“His youth had scarcely melted into manhood”
― Amy Lowell, A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass

“To A Friend"

I ask but one thing of you, only one,
That always you will be my dream of you;
That never shall I wake to find untrue
All this I have believed and rested on,
Forever vanished, like a vision gone
Out into the night. Alas, how few
There are who strike in us a chord we knew
Existed, but so seldom heard its tone
We tremble at the half-forgotten sound.
The world is full of rude awakenings
And heaven-born castles shattered to the ground,
Yet still our human longing vainly clings
To a belief in beauty through all wrongs.
O stay your hand, and leave my heart its songs!”
― Amy Lowell, A Dome Of Many Colored Glass