1874 - 1925/AmericanAmy 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 society. Lowell was the youngest of five children. Her elder bro…
View profile & all 14 Poems / StoriesThey have watered the street,It shines in the glare of lamps,
IThe Trumpet-Vine ArbourThe throats of the little red trumpet-flowers are wide open,And the clangour of brass beats against the hot sunlight.
Guarded within the old red wall's embrace,Marshalled like soldiers in gay company,
From out the dragging vastness of the sea,Wave-fettered, bound in sinuous, seaweed strands,
But why did I **** him? Why? Why?In the small, gilded room, near the stair?
