Sword Blades and Poppy Seed

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sword Blades and Poppy Seed, by Amy Lowell This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Sword Blades and Poppy Seed Author: Amy Lowell Release Date: August 3, 2008 [EBook #1020] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SWORD BLADES AND POPPY SEED *** Produced by Alan R. Light, and David Widger SWORD BLADES AND POPPY SEED by Amy Lowell [American (Massachusetts) poet, 1874-1925.] [Transcriber's note: Lines longer than 78 characters have been cut and continued on the next line, which is indented 2 spaces unless in a prose poem.] SWORD BLADES AND POPPY SEED "Face invisible! je t'ai gravée en médailles D'argent doux comme l'aube pâle, D'or ardent comme le soleil, D'airain sombre comme la nuit; Il y en a de tout métal, Qui tintent clair comme la joie, Qui sonnent lourd comme la gloire, Comme l'amour, comme la mort; Et j'ai fait les plus belles de belle argile Sèche et fragile. "Une à une, vous les comptiez en souriant, Et vous disiez: Il est habile; Et vous passiez en souriant.