The False Gods (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
"We are false and evanescent, and aware of our deceit, From the straw that is our vitals to the clay ...
"We are false and evanescent, and aware of our deceit, From the straw that is our vitals to the clay ...
NOTE.-Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage-so far as ...
There were faces to remember in the Valley of the Shadow, There were faces unregarded, there were faces to forget; ...
NOTE.-The following imaginary dialogue between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any specific incident in American ...
No longer torn by what she knows And sees within the eyes of others, Her doubts are when the daylight ...
The man Flammonde, from God knows where, With firm address and foreign air With news of nations in his talk ...
Let him answer as he will, Or be lightsome as he may, Now nor after shall he say Worn-out words ...
You Eyes, you large and all-inquiring Eyes. That look so dubiously into me, And are not satisfied with what you ...
You that in vain would front the coming order With eyes that meet forlornly what they must, And only with ...
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
By what serene malevolence of names Had you the gift of yours, Theophilus? Not even a smeared young Cyclops at ...
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 ...
We parted where the old gas-lamp still burned Under the wayside maple and walked on, Into the dark, as we ...
Though not for common praise of him, Nor yet for pride or charity, Still would I make to Vanderberg One ...
"Do I hear them? Yes, I hear the children singing-and what of it? Have you come with eyes afire to ...
I Partly to think, more to be left alone, George Annandale said something to his friends- A word or two, ...
I I doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town Had ever shaken hands with Captain Craig, Or called him ...
Well, Bokardo, here we are; Make yourself at home. Look around-you haven't far To look-and why be dumb? Not the ...
Blessed with a joy that only she Of all alive shall ever know, She wears a proud humility For what ...
When the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum, and The Three Taverns.-(Acts ...
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
"Whether all towns and all who live in them- So long as they be somewhere in this world That we ...
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