The Poor Relation (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
No longer torn by what she knows And sees within the eyes of others, Her doubts are when the daylight ...
No longer torn by what she knows And sees within the eyes of others, Her doubts are when the daylight ...
NOTE.-Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage-so far as ...
The doubt you fought so long The cynic net you cast, The tyranny, the wrong, The ruin, they are past; ...
(To Mrs. Henry Richards) Isaac and Archibald were two old men. I knew them, and I may have laughed at ...
A flying word from here and there Had sown the name at which we sneered, To be reviled and then ...
(WASHINGTON SQUARE) I met him, as one meets a ghost or two, Between the gray Arch and the old Hotel. ...
As we the withered ferns By the roadway lying, Time, the jester, spurns All our prayers and prying -- All ...
You that in vain would front the coming order With eyes that meet forlornly what they must, And only with ...
We go no more to Calverly's, For there the lights are few and low; And who are there to see ...
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
He took a frayed hat from his head, And "Peace on Earth" was what he said. "A morsel out of ...
"Be calm? And was I frantic? You'll have me laughing soon. I'm calm as this Atlantic, And quiet as the ...
Take it away, and swallow it yourself. Ha! Look you, there's a rat. Last night there were a dozen on ...
(AMSTERDAM, 1645) And there you are again, now as you are. Observe yourself as you discern yourself In your discredited ...
When he, who is the unforgiven, Beheld her first, he found her fair: No promise ever dreamt in heaven Could ...
She'd look upon us, if she could, As hard as Rhadamanthus would; Yet one may see,-who sees her face, Her ...
I I doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town Had ever shaken hands with Captain Craig, Or called him ...
Could he have made Priscilla share The paradise that he had planned, Llewellyn would have loved his wife As well ...
Gawaine, aware again of Lancelot In the King's garden, coughed and followed him; Whereat he turned and stood with folded ...
At first I thought there was a superfine Persuasion in his face; but the free flow That filled it when ...
"Gawaine, Gawaine, what look ye for to see, So far beyond the faint edge of the world? D'ye look to ...
Whenever I go by there nowadays And look at the rank weeds and the strange grass, The torn blue curtains ...
Shall I never make him look at me again? I look at him, I look my life at him, I ...
I Partly to think, more to be left alone, George Annandale said something to his friends- A word or two, ...
"No, Mary, there was nothing-not a word. Nothing, and always nothing. Go again Yourself, and he may listen-or at least ...
Blue in the west the mountain stands, And through the long twilight Vickery sits with folded hands, And Vickery's eyes ...
Two men came out of Shannon's, having known The faces of each other for so long As they had listened ...
Although I saw before me there the face Of one whom I had honored among men The least, and on ...
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