What's O'Clock
WHAT'S O'CLOCK
Books by Amy Lowell
PUBLISHED BY
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
Poetry
WHAT'S O'CLOCK
LEGENDS
PICTURES OF THE FLOATING WORLD
CAN GRANDE'S CASTLE
MEN, WOMEN AND GHOSTS
SWORD BLADES AND POPPY SEED
A DOME OF MANY-COLOURED GLASS
A CRITICAL FABLE
(IN COLLABORATION WITH FLORENCE AYSCOUGH)
FIR-FLOWER TABLETS: POEMS TRANSLATED FROM THE CHINESE
Prose
TENDENCIES IN MODERN AMERICAN POETRY
SIX FRENCH POETS: STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
JOHN KEATS
WHAT'S O'CLOCK
BY
AMY LOWELL
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PUBLISHED, AUGUST, 1925
REPRINTED, AUGUST, 1925; SEPTEMBER, 1925
OCTOBER; 1925 (TWICE)
The Riversive Press
CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
Buckingham.I am thus bold.
To put your grace in mind of what you promised me.
King Richard. Well, but what is't o'clock?
Buckingham. Upon the stroke of ten.
King Richard. Well, let it strike.
Buckingham. Why, let it strike?
King Richard. Because that, like a Jack, thou keep'st the stroke
Betwixt thy begging and my meditation.
Shakespeare. King Richard III.
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Thanks are due to the editors of The North American Review, The Atlantic, The Bookman, The Dial, The Century, Scribner's Magazine, Harper's Monthly Magazine, The New Republic, The Nation, The Nation London, Poetry, The Anglo-French Review, The Double Dealer, The Yale Review, Broom, The Saturday Review of Literature, Books, The Literary Review, Voices London, and The International Review for their courteous permission to reprint certain of there poems which have been copyrighted by them.
Acknowledgement should also be made to the editors of the anthologies The Enchanted Years, A Miscellany of American Poetry, and American Poetry, 1923 for the inclusion of ten poems which were published in these collections.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.
The longest-living author of this work died in 1925, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 98 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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