Can Grande's castle

by Amy Lowell

CAN GRANDE'S CASTLE

BY

AMY LOWELL

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY AMY LOWELL
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1918
REPRINTED OCTOBER, 1918; MARCH, DECEMBER, 1919;
MARCH, 1922; DECEMBER, 1924; DECEMBER, 1925

The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE * MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

I turn the page and read...
. . .
The heavy musty air, the black desks,
The bent heads and the rustling noises
In the great dome
Vanish...
And
The sun hangs in the cobalt-blue sky,
The boat drifts over the lake shallows,
The fishes skim like umber shades through the undulating weeds,
The oleanders drop their rosy petals on the lawns,
And the swallows dive and swirl and whistle
About the cleft battlements of Can Grande's castle..."

Richard Aldington. "AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM."

PREFACE