The Woman and the Wife (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
I--THE EXPLANATION "You thought we knew," she said, "but we were wrong. This we can say, the rest we do ...
I--THE EXPLANATION "You thought we knew," she said, "but we were wrong. This we can say, the rest we do ...
Never mind the day we left, or the day the women clung to us; All we need now is the ...
Though for your sake I would not have you now So near to me tonight as now you are, God ...
Faint white pillars that seem to fade As you look from here are the first one sees Of his house ...
"Do I hear them? Yes, I hear the children singing-and what of it? Have you come with eyes afire to ...
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
I I doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town Had ever shaken hands with Captain Craig, Or called him ...
Ye gods that have a home beyond the world, Ye that have eyes for all man's agony, Ye that have ...
There is a drear and lonely tract of hell From all the common gloom removed afar: A flat, sad land ...
Gawaine, aware again of Lancelot In the King's garden, coughed and followed him; Whereat he turned and stood with folded ...
(AMSTERDAM, 1645) And there you are again, now as you are. Observe yourself as you discern yourself In your discredited ...
There is a fenceless garden overgrown With buds and blossoms and all sorts of leaves; And once, among the roses ...
Blessed with a joy that only she Of all alive shall ever know, She wears a proud humility For what ...
Could he have made Priscilla share The paradise that he had planned, Llewellyn would have loved his wife As well ...
I We thrill too strangely at the master's touch; We shrink too sadly from the larger self Which for its ...
Shall I never make him look at me again? I look at him, I look my life at him, I ...
I Just as I wonder at the twofold screen Of twisted innocence that you would plait For eyes that uncourageously ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
I A HAPPY MAN (Carphyllides) When these graven lines you see, Traveler, do not pity me; Though I be among ...
I While I stood listening, discreetly dumb, Lorraine was having the last word with me: "I know," she said, "I ...
As we the withered ferns By the roadway lying, Time, the jester, spurns All our prayers and prying -- All ...
Here there is death. But even here, they say, Here where the dull sun shines this afternoon As desolate as ...
I Partly to think, more to be left alone, George Annandale said something to his friends- A word or two, ...
When these graven lines you see, Traveller, do not pity me; Though I be among the dead, Let no mournful ...
"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 ...
Where a faint light shines alone, Dwells a Demon I have known. Most of you had better say "The Dark ...
Yes, you have it; I can see. Beautiful?. Dear, look at me! Look and let my shame confess Triumph after ...
I Not by the grief that stuns and overwhelms All outward recognition of revealed And righteous omnipresence are the days ...
The master-songs are ended, and the man That sang them is a name. And so is God A name; and ...
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