TIME Magazine cover from March 2, 1925 featuring Amy Lowell.
The vine leaves against the brick walls of my house,
Are rusty and broken.
Dead leaves gather under the pine-trees,
The brittle boughs of lilac-bushes
Sweep against the stars.
And I sit under a lamp
Trying to write down the emptiness of my heart.
Even the cat will not stay with me,
But prefers the rain
Under the meagre shelter of a cellar window.
— “November,’’ by Amy Lowell (1874-1925), very eccentric, cigar-smoking Boston-based Imagist poet
To read how she helped save The Boston Athenaeum, please hit this link. (The article contains the error that she died in 1920.)
The formidable Boston Athenaeum
