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...volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Safe in their Alabaster Chambers by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 6, 2012. Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her life...

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The Salesman Alabaster Easter The Albatross Cafe She wore clover . . . Tabula Rasa The Two Men The Dancer

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... tossing on my pallet, I dreamed that a woman came and brought an antique alabaster box and knelt beside me—to anoint my feet. I tried to say someth...

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... tossing on my pallet, I dreamed that a woman came and brought an antique alabaster box and knelt beside me—to anoint my feet. I tried to say someth... ...e for the Medici, one I used to play. There is a white marble table with alabaster legs where I spread out the manuscripts and books. The libraria... ... collected in Campania (along with malaria): iridescent vases, bronze and alabaster lamps, household figurines, a few coins. I have one with a porpo... ...Laws? Writings? They respect the bronze horse, the jeweled necklace...the alabaster vase...the cameo...the bas-relief...great murals...antiquities! ...

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...dia. “Daniel. You look well enough.” Lydia turned her cheek toward him. Alabaster white and cool. He kissed it quickly. “Put him down. You’ll... ...ped his lover back to kiss her. Her auburn hair fell away from her perfect alabaster face. “Daniel. No, Daniel, please.” “Morgan? Sweet Morgan...

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... hardscrabble trail beneath her feet became a wondrous mosaic of quartz and alabaster, sandstone and granite, star-patterned in octagons and triangl...

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...eighboring ally kingdom with large slate gray eyes, long curly black hair and alabaster skin that made her appear like a fragile doll of delicate ch...

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... beautiful in its youthful grace; whose hair, charmingly arranged above an alabaster forehead, inspired love; whose eyes did not receive but gave fort... ...ented Adonis stretched out on a lion’s skin. The lamp, 14 Sarrasine in an alabaster vase, hanging in the centre of the boudoir, cast upon the canvas ...

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...e takes him by the hand, A lily prison’d in a gaol of snow, Or ivory in an alabaster band; So white a friend engirts so white a foe: This beauteous ...

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...e takes him by the hand, A lily prison’d in a gaol of snow, Or ivory in an alabaster band; So white a friend engirts so white a foe: This beauteous ...

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...ly to cast 13 Balzac off her shoe, and began to dabble her foot, white as alabaster, in the current, admiring, perhaps, the undulations she thus prod...

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... young artists she protects, sat for it not only in oils but in monumental alabaster. What happened at Prestidge later in the day is of course contemp...

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... secret, signore! It’s as light, you perceive, as cork, and yet as firm as alabaster! I frankly confess that I really pride myself as much on this lit...

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... L IT sifts from leaden sieves, It powders all the wood, It fills with alabaster wool The wrinkles of the road. It makes an even face Of mountain ... ...nces, disperse And leave the soul alone. IV Safe in their alabaster chambers, Untouched by morning and untouched by noon, Sleep the m...

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...t the glorious Temple rear’d Her pile, far off appearing like a Mount Of Alabaster, top’t with Golden Spires: There on the highest Pinacle he se...

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...ave. But, examining it more closely, Kenyon saw that it was carved in gray alabaster; most skillfully done to the death, with ac- curate imitation of ... ... part.” “I do not well understand you,” said Donatello; and he took up the alabaster skull, shuddering, and evidently feel- ing it a kind of penance t... ...ned, at its upper end, with two pillars that seemed to consist of Oriental alabaster; and wherever there was a space vacant of precious and variegated...

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... in golden boxes, or in little oval narrow-necked phials of dazzling white alabaster, which bore the name of onyx, from its resemblance to the preciou... ...or those of the Libanus in Syria. Indeed, long before the birth of Christ, alabaster was in such general use for purposes of this kind in Palestine,th... ...f horn were used for keeping the pigment by the poorer Hebrews,—of onyx or alabaster by the richer. NOTE 4. Cleopatra had a couple of that value; and ...

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..., when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, 38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and...

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...y, in the house of Simon the leper, 7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he...

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...wo sofas, two easy-chairs, two armchairs, and six common chairs. A vase in alabaster, called a la Medicis, kept under glass stands on a table between ... ...arble was adorned by a mirror, two candelabra in copper-gilt, and a vulgar alabaster cup in which two pi- geons, forming handles, were drinking. “You ...