Reuben Bright (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Because he was a butcher and thereby Did earn an honest living (and did right), I would not have you ...
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 ...
"Do I hear them? Yes, I hear the children singing-and what of it? Have you come with eyes afire to ...
Shall I never make him look at me again? I look at him, I look my life at him, I ...
"Where's the need of singing now?"-- Smooth your brow, Momus, and be reconciled. For king Kronos is a child-- Child ...
They have made for Leonora this low dwelling in the ground, And with cedar they have woven the four walls ...
You Eyes, you large and all-inquiring Eyes. That look so dubiously into me, And are not satisfied with what you ...
Vengeful across the cold November moors, Loud with ancestral shame there came the bleak Sad wind that shrieked, and answered ...
Blue in the west the mountain stands, And through the long twilight Vickery sits with folded hands, And Vickery's eyes ...
I-THE LURE No, no,-forget your Cricket and your Ant, For I shall never set my name to theirs That now ...
There is a drear and lonely tract of hell From all the common gloom removed afar: A flat, sad land ...
Up from the street and the crowds that went, Morning and midnight, to and fro, Still was the room where ...
FIRST VOICE So long adrift, so fast aground, What foam and ruin have we found- We, the Wise Brothers? Could ...
The ghost of Ninon would be sorry now To laugh at them, were she to see them here, So brave ...
I A HAPPY MAN (Carphyllides) When these graven lines you see, Traveler, do not pity me; Though I be among ...
It may have been the pride in me for aught I know, or just a patronizing whim; But call it ...
Let him answer as he will, Or be lightsome as he may, Now nor after shall he say Worn-out words ...
You that in vain would front the coming order With eyes that meet forlornly what they must, And only with ...
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