Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme— …
Robert Lowell
The sun is blue and scarlet on my page, …
The old South Boston Aquarium stands …
The stiff spokes of this wheel …
The dream went like a rake of sliced bamboo, …
Nautilus Island’sNautilus Island’s Lowell once remarked, “The first four stanzas are meant to give a dawdling more or less amiable picture of a declining Maine sea town.” hermit …
Forty years ago we were here …