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mimja5
mimja5

I have been looking for a poem by Amy Lowell which was about hands and an old opera tune. Can you tell me where I can find it?

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Posted by mimja5 on Monday June 8, 2009 at 7:49 PM and tagged with hands, meeting-house hill, opera, poem.

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  1. linda-allen Teacher
    High School - 10th Grade

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    Without a title, it's difficult to tell you where to find the poem. I did a search for Lowell's poems that contain the words "hand" and "opera" and found "An Opera House." Could this be the poem you want? Here are a few lines:

    The opera house is a treasure-box of gold.
    Gold in a broad smear across the orchestra pit:
    Gold of horns, trumpets, tubas;
    Gold -- spun-gold, twittering-gold, snapping-gold
    Of harps.
    The conductor raises his baton,
    The brass blares out
    Crass, crude,
    Parvenu, fat, powerful,
    Golden.
    Rich as the fat, clapping hands in the boxes.
    Cymbals, gigantic, coin-shaped,
    Crash.

    I've added to the sources section links to a couple of web sites where you can read the entire poem. I hope this helps!

    Sources:
    http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/amylowell/12394
    http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/Amy_Lowell/Amy_Lo...

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    Posted by linda-allen on Wednesday June 10, 2009 at 11:22 AM