Octaves (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
I We thrill too strangely at the master's touch; We shrink too sadly from the larger self Which for its ...
I We thrill too strangely at the master's touch; We shrink too sadly from the larger self Which for its ...
"Gawaine, Gawaine, what look ye for to see, So far beyond the faint edge of the world? D'ye look to ...
I Partly to think, more to be left alone, George Annandale said something to his friends- A word or two, ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
Shall I never make him look at me again? I look at him, I look my life at him, I ...
When the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum, and The Three Taverns.-(Acts ...
As we the withered ferns By the roadway lying, Time, the jester, spurns All our prayers and prying -- All ...
I A HAPPY MAN (Carphyllides) When these graven lines you see, Traveler, do not pity me; Though I be among ...
"Whether all towns and all who live in them- So long as they be somewhere in this world That we ...
She fears him, and will always ask What fated her to choose him; She meets in his engaging mask All ...
He knocked, and I beheld him at the door-- A vision for the gods to verify. "What battered ancient is ...
NOTE.-Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage-so far as ...
Up from the street and the crowds that went, Morning and midnight, to and fro, Still was the room where ...
Here there is death. But even here, they say, Here where the dull sun shines this afternoon As desolate as ...
The master-songs are ended, and the man That sang them is a name. And so is God A name; and ...
"No, Mary, there was nothing-not a word. Nothing, and always nothing. Go again Yourself, and he may listen-or at least ...
Here where the wind is always north-north-east And children learn to walk on frozen toes, Wonder begets an envy of ...
Come away! come away! there's a frost along the marshes, And a frozen wind that skims the shoal where it ...
No more with overflowing light Shall fill the eyes that now are faded, Nor shall another's fringe with night Their ...
The doubt you fought so long The cynic net you cast, The tyranny, the wrong, The ruin, they are past; ...
For those that never know the light, The darkness is a sullen thing; And they, the Children of the Night, ...
(To Mrs. Edward MacDowell) No sound of any storm that shakes Old island walls with older seas Comes here where ...
Aunt Imogen was coming, and therefore The children-Jane, Sylvester, and Young George- Were eyes and ears; for there was only ...
A flying word from here and there Had sown the name at which we sneered, To be reviled and then ...
When he, who is the unforgiven, Beheld her first, he found her fair: No promise ever dreamt in heaven Could ...
Never mind the day we left, or the day the women clung to us; All we need now is the ...
In Tilbury Town did Old King Cole A wise old age anticipate, Desiring, with his pipe and bowl, No Khan's ...
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
I--THE EXPLANATION "You thought we knew," she said, "but we were wrong. This we can say, the rest we do ...
Foreguarded and unfevered and serene, Back to the perilous gates of Truth he went- Back to fierce wisdom and the ...
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