Ballad of a Ship (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Down by the flash of the restless water The dim White Ship like a white bird lay; Laughing at life ...
Down by the flash of the restless water The dim White Ship like a white bird lay; Laughing at life ...
(WASHINGTON SQUARE) I met him, as one meets a ghost or two, Between the gray Arch and the old Hotel. ...
Not even if with a wizard force I might Have summoned whomsoever I would name, Should anyone else have come ...
Though not for common praise of him, Nor yet for pride or charity, Still would I make to Vanderberg One ...
"Whether all towns and all who live in them- So long as they be somewhere in this world That we ...
War shook the land where Levi dwelt, And fired the dismal wrath he felt, That such a doom was ever ...
Oh for a poet-for a beacon bright To rift this changless glimmer of dead gray; To spirit back the Muses, ...
I cannot find my way: there is no star In all the shrouded heavens anywhere; And there is not a ...
There be two men of all mankind That I should like to know about; But search and question where I ...
Up the old hill to the old house again Where fifty years ago the friend was young Who should be ...
Slowly I smoke and hug my knee, The while a witless masquerade Of things that only children see Floats in ...
Small knowledge have we that by knowledge met May not some day be quaint as any told In almagest or ...
I found a torrent falling in a glen Where the sun's light shone silvered and leaf-split; The boom, the foam, ...
(AMSTERDAM, 1645) And there you are again, now as you are. Observe yourself as you discern yourself In your discredited ...
Now in a thought, now in a shadowed word, Now in a voice that thrills eternity, Ever there comes an ...
And there we were together again- Together again, we three: Morgan, Fingal, fiddle, and all, They had come for the ...
Because he was a butcher and thereby Did earn an honest living (and did right), I would not have you ...
She fears him, and will always ask What fated her to choose him; She meets in his engaging mask All ...
No more with overflowing light Shall fill the eyes that now are faded, Nor shall another's fringe with night Their ...
Though for your sake I would not have you now So near to me tonight as now you are, God ...
"Where are you going to-night, to-night, -- Where are you going, John Evereldown? There's never the sign of a star ...
Two men came out of Shannon's, having known The faces of each other for so long As they had listened ...
The man Flammonde, from God knows where, With firm address and foreign air With news of nations in his talk ...
His words were magic and his heart was true, And everywhere he wandered he was blessed. Out of all ancient ...
I As long as Fame's imperious music rings Will poets mock it with crowned words august; And haggard men will ...
I Partly to think, more to be left alone, George Annandale said something to his friends- A word or two, ...
NOTE.-Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage-so far as ...
Pamela was too gentle to deceive Her roses. "Let the men stay where they are," She said, "and if Apollo's ...
Child of a line accurst And old as Troy, Bringer of best and worst In wild alloy- Light, like a ...
Take it away, and swallow it yourself. Ha! Look you, there's a rat. Last night there were a dozen on ...
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