Sonnet 32: The Children of the Night (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Oh for a poet-for a beacon bright To rift this changless glimmer of dead gray; To spirit back the Muses, ...
Oh for a poet-for a beacon bright To rift this changless glimmer of dead gray; To spirit back the Muses, ...
I We thrill too strangely at the master's touch; We shrink too sadly from the larger self Which for its ...
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
(AMSTERDAM, 1645) And there you are again, now as you are. Observe yourself as you discern yourself In your discredited ...
Oh for a poet-for a beacon bright To rift this changless glimmer of dead gray; To spirit back the Muses, ...
She'd look upon us, if she could, As hard as Rhadamanthus would; Yet one may see,-who sees her face, Her ...
Up from the street and the crowds that went, Morning and midnight, to and fro, Still was the room where ...
I Just as I wonder at the twofold screen Of twisted innocence that you would plait For eyes that uncourageously ...
For those that never know the light, The darkness is a sullen thing; And they, the Children of the Night, ...
I Partly to think, more to be left alone, George Annandale said something to his friends- A word or two, ...
In Tilbury Town did Old King Cole A wise old age anticipate, Desiring, with his pipe and bowl, No Khan's ...
When the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum, and The Three Taverns.-(Acts ...
Though for your sake I would not have you now So near to me tonight as now you are, God ...
NOTE.-Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage-so far as ...
"Do I hear them? Yes, I hear the children singing-and what of it? Have you come with eyes afire to ...
I I doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town Had ever shaken hands with Captain Craig, Or called him ...
Blessed with a joy that only she Of all alive shall ever know, She wears a proud humility For what ...
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
There were faces to remember in the Valley of the Shadow, There were faces unregarded, there were faces to forget; ...
Slowly I smoke and hug my knee, The while a witless masquerade Of things that only children see Floats in ...
(To Mrs. Edward MacDowell) No sound of any storm that shakes Old island walls with older seas Comes here where ...
(ROOSEVELT) He turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees and ...
Through an ascending emptiness of night, Leaving the flesh and complacent mind Together in their suffciency behind, The soul of ...
(WASHINGTON SQUARE) I met him, as one meets a ghost or two, Between the gray Arch and the old Hotel. ...
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