The Garden (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
There is a fenceless garden overgrown With buds and blossoms and all sorts of leaves; And once, among the roses ...
There is a fenceless garden overgrown With buds and blossoms and all sorts of leaves; And once, among the roses ...
Though for your sake I would not have you now So near to me tonight as now you are, God ...
OR THE CONTENTED METAPHYSICIAN TO the lore of no manner of men Would his vision have yielded When he found ...
"Whether all towns and all who live in them- So long as they be somewhere in this world That we ...
The man who cloaked his bitterness within This winding-sheet of puns and pleasantries, God never gave to look with common ...
"Do I hear them? Yes, I hear the children singing-and what of it? Have you come with eyes afire to ...
NOTE.-The following imaginary dialogue between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any specific incident in American ...
I We thrill too strangely at the master's touch; We shrink too sadly from the larger self Which for its ...
I I doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town Had ever shaken hands with Captain Craig, Or called him ...
The doubt you fought so long The cynic net you cast, The tyranny, the wrong, The ruin, they are past; ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
Because he puts the compromising chart Of hell before your eyes, you are afraid; Because he counts the price that ...
(ROOSEVELT) He turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees and ...
As we the withered ferns By the roadway lying, Time, the jester, spurns All our prayers and prying -- All ...
Gawaine, aware again of Lancelot In the King's garden, coughed and followed him; Whereat he turned and stood with folded ...
(WASHINGTON SQUARE) I met him, as one meets a ghost or two, Between the gray Arch and the old Hotel. ...
She fears him, and will always ask What fated her to choose him; She meets in his engaging mask All ...
Blessed with a joy that only she Of all alive shall ever know, She wears a proud humility For what ...
Faint white pillars that seem to fade As you look from here are the first one sees Of his house ...
Up from the street and the crowds that went, Morning and midnight, to and fro, Still was the room where ...
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
If ever I am old, and all alone, I shall have killed one grief, at any rate; For then, thank ...
"Gawaine, Gawaine, what look ye for to see, So far beyond the faint edge of the world? D'ye look to ...
(AMSTERDAM, 1645) And there you are again, now as you are. Observe yourself as you discern yourself In your discredited ...
He took a frayed hat from his head, And "Peace on Earth" was what he said. "A morsel out of ...
"Where are you going to-night, to-night, -- Where are you going, John Evereldown? There's never the sign of a star ...
I Just as I wonder at the twofold screen Of twisted innocence that you would plait For eyes that uncourageously ...
Take it away, and swallow it yourself. Ha! Look you, there's a rat. Last night there were a dozen on ...
Shall I never make him look at me again? I look at him, I look my life at him, I ...
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