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 ...
Well, Bokardo, here we are; Make yourself at home. Look around-you haven't far To look-and why be dumb? Not the ...
Aunt Imogen was coming, and therefore The children-Jane, Sylvester, and Young George- Were eyes and ears; for there was only ...
Before there was in Egypt any sound Of those who reared a more prodigious means For the self-heavy sleep of ...
In Tilbury Town did Old King Cole A wise old age anticipate, Desiring, with his pipe and bowl, No Khan's ...
"Whether all towns and all who live in them- So long as they be somewhere in this world That we ...
Though for your sake I would not have you now So near to me tonight as now you are, God ...
NOTE.-Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage-so far as ...
I I doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town Had ever shaken hands with Captain Craig, Or called him ...
I-THE LURE No, no,-forget your Cricket and your Ant, For I shall never set my name to theirs That now ...
Gawaine, aware again of Lancelot In the King's garden, coughed and followed him; Whereat he turned and stood with folded ...
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
"Gawaine, Gawaine, what look ye for to see, So far beyond the faint edge of the world? D'ye look to ...
Shall I never make him look at me again? I look at him, I look my life at him, I ...
Through the shine, through the rain We have shared the day's load; To the old march again We have tramped ...
I did not think that I should find them there When I came back again; but there they stood, As ...
NOTE.-The following imaginary dialogue between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any specific incident in American ...
Down by the flash of the restless water The dim White Ship like a white bird lay; Laughing at life ...
I Said the Watcher by the Way To the young and the unladen, To the boy and to the maiden, ...
Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole ...
Ye gods that have a home beyond the world, Ye that have eyes for all man's agony, Ye that have ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
Blue in the west the mountain stands, And through the long twilight Vickery sits with folded hands, And Vickery's eyes ...
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