An Island (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Take it away, and swallow it yourself. Ha! Look you, there's a rat. Last night there were a dozen on ...
Take it away, and swallow it yourself. Ha! Look you, there's a rat. Last night there were a dozen on ...
Shall I never make him look at me again? I look at him, I look my life at him, I ...
Since you remember Nimmo, and arrive At such a false and florid and far drawn Confusion of odd nonsense, I ...
"Why am I not myself these many days, You ask? And have you nothing more to ask? I do you ...
I A HAPPY MAN (Carphyllides) When these graven lines you see, Traveler, do not pity me; Though I be among ...
Though not for common praise of him, Nor yet for pride or charity, Still would I make to Vanderberg One ...
"There, but for the grace of God, goes." There is a question that I ask, And ask again: What hunger ...
He knocked, and I beheld him at the door-- A vision for the gods to verify. "What battered ancient is ...
Now in a thought, now in a shadowed word, Now in a voice that thrills eternity, Ever there comes an ...
(ALCAICS) Confused, he found her lavishing feminine Gold upon clay, and found her inscrutable; And yet she smiled. Why, then, ...
"We are false and evanescent, and aware of our deceit, From the straw that is our vitals to the clay ...
I Partly to think, more to be left alone, George Annandale said something to his friends- A word or two, ...
Christmas was in the air and all was well With him, but for a few confusing flaws In divers of ...
For those that never know the light, The darkness is a sullen thing; And they, the Children of the Night, ...
"No, Mary, there was nothing-not a word. Nothing, and always nothing. Go again Yourself, and he may listen-or at least ...
Well, Bokardo, here we are; Make yourself at home. Look around-you haven't far To look-and why be dumb? Not the ...
Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal, -- There where the vines cling crimson on the wall, -- And in ...
When he, who is the unforgiven, Beheld her first, he found her fair: No promise ever dreamt in heaven Could ...
Yes, you have it; I can see. Beautiful?. Dear, look at me! Look and let my shame confess Triumph after ...
When the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum, and The Three Taverns.-(Acts ...
There is a drear and lonely tract of hell From all the common gloom removed afar: A flat, sad land ...
There be two men of all mankind That I should like to know about; But search and question where I ...
"Where's the need of singing now?"-- Smooth your brow, Momus, and be reconciled. For king Kronos is a child-- Child ...
I pray you not, Leuconoë, to pore With unpermitted eyes on what may be Appointed by the gods for you ...
There is a fenceless garden overgrown With buds and blossoms and all sorts of leaves; And once, among the roses ...
Though for your sake I would not have you now So near to me tonight as now you are, God ...
OR THE CONTENTED METAPHYSICIAN TO the lore of no manner of men Would his vision have yielded When he found ...
"Whether all towns and all who live in them- So long as they be somewhere in this world That we ...
The man who cloaked his bitterness within This winding-sheet of puns and pleasantries, God never gave to look with common ...
"Do I hear them? Yes, I hear the children singing-and what of it? Have you come with eyes afire to ...
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