Thomas Hood (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
The man who cloaked his bitterness within This winding-sheet of puns and pleasantries, God never gave to look with common ...
The man who cloaked his bitterness within This winding-sheet of puns and pleasantries, God never gave to look with common ...
The man Flammonde, from God knows where, With firm address and foreign air With news of nations in his talk ...
I We thrill too strangely at the master's touch; We shrink too sadly from the larger self Which for its ...
(To Mrs. Henry Richards) Isaac and Archibald were two old men. I knew them, and I may have laughed at ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
A melanholy face Charles Carville had, But not so melancholy as it seemed, When once you knew him, for his ...
As we the withered ferns By the roadway lying, Time, the jester, spurns All our prayers and prying -- All ...
(WASHINGTON SQUARE) I met him, as one meets a ghost or two, Between the gray Arch and the old Hotel. ...
"There, but for the grace of God, goes." There is a question that I ask, And ask again: What hunger ...
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
For those that never know the light, The darkness is a sullen thing; And they, the Children of the Night, ...
Ye gods that have a home beyond the world, Ye that have eyes for all man's agony, Ye that have ...
I--THE EXPLANATION "You thought we knew," she said, "but we were wrong. This we can say, the rest we do ...
When he protested, not too solemnly, That for a world's achieving maintenance The crust of overdone divinity Lacked aliment, they ...
Though for your sake I would not have you now So near to me tonight as now you are, God ...
I Just as I wonder at the twofold screen Of twisted innocence that you would plait For eyes that uncourageously ...
I I doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town Had ever shaken hands with Captain Craig, Or called him ...
Though not for common praise of him, Nor yet for pride or charity, Still would I make to Vanderberg One ...
Gawaine, aware again of Lancelot In the King's garden, coughed and followed him; Whereat he turned and stood with folded ...
I Partly to think, more to be left alone, George Annandale said something to his friends- A word or two, ...
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
When the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum, and The Three Taverns.-(Acts ...
I A HAPPY MAN (Carphyllides) When these graven lines you see, Traveler, do not pity me; Though I be among ...
NOTE.-Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage-so far as ...
"No, Mary, there was nothing-not a word. Nothing, and always nothing. Go again Yourself, and he may listen-or at least ...
I-THE LURE No, no,-forget your Cricket and your Ant, For I shall never set my name to theirs That now ...
Pamela was too gentle to deceive Her roses. "Let the men stay where they are," She said, "and if Apollo's ...
There were faces to remember in the Valley of the Shadow, There were faces unregarded, there were faces to forget; ...
There is a drear and lonely tract of hell From all the common gloom removed afar: A flat, sad land ...
I saw by looking in his eyes That they remembered everything; And this was how I came to know That ...
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