In one of her poems Amy Lowell described them as "Friendly to a house-cat and a pair of spectacles, / Making poetry out of a bit of moonlight /
In one of her poems Amy Lowell described them as "Friendly to a house-cat and a pair of spectacles, / Making poetry out of a bit of moonlight / And a hundred or two sharp blossoms." However, they appear more prominently in the work of another American poet, wherein they combine with "drooping star in the west, / and thought of him I love" to form a "trinity," and serve as a reminder to the poet of a great loss he and the country suffered one spring. FTP, give the common name of this flower of the shrub of the genus Syringa, which the speaker of Walt Whitman's elegy gathered and placed on Lincoln's coffin "when last in the dooryard they bloomed."
In one of her poems Amy Lowell described them as "Friendly to a house-cat and a pair of spectacles, / Making poetry out of a bit of moonlight /
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