Lazarus (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
"No, Mary, there was nothing-not a word. Nothing, and always nothing. Go again Yourself, and he may listen-or at least ...
"No, Mary, there was nothing-not a word. Nothing, and always nothing. Go again Yourself, and he may listen-or at least ...
When the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum, and The Three Taverns.-(Acts ...
There were faces to remember in the Valley of the Shadow, There were faces unregarded, there were faces to forget; ...
The table hurled itself, to our surprise, At Lingard, and anon rapped eagerly: "When earth is cold and there is ...
It may have been the pride in me for aught I know, or just a patronizing whim; But call it ...
"Whether all towns and all who live in them- So long as they be somewhere in this world That we ...
NOTE.-The following imaginary dialogue between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any specific incident in American ...
NOTE.-Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage-so far as ...
A flying word from here and there Had sown the name at which we sneered, To be reviled and then ...
I Said the Watcher by the Way To the young and the unladen, To the boy and to the maiden, ...
Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn, Grew lean while he assailed the seasons; He wept that he was ever born, And ...
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
By what serene malevolence of names Had you the gift of yours, Theophilus? Not even a smeared young Cyclops at ...
The master-songs are ended, and the man That sang them is a name. And so is God A name; and ...
Not even if with a wizard force I might Have summoned whomsoever I would name, Should anyone else have come ...
Though for your sake I would not have you now So near to me tonight as now you are, God ...
(AMSTERDAM, 1645) And there you are again, now as you are. Observe yourself as you discern yourself In your discredited ...
Unyielding in the pride of his defiance, Afloat with none to serve or to command, Lord of himself at last, ...
"The sea is everywhere the sea." I Gone-faded out of the story, the sea-faring friend I remember? Gone for a ...
I I doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town Had ever shaken hands with Captain Craig, Or called him ...
Once there was a cabin here, and once there was a man; And something happened here before my memory began. ...
Friendless and faint, with martyred steps and slow, Faint for the flesh, but for the spirit free, Stung by the ...
Could he have made Priscilla share The paradise that he had planned, Llewellyn would have loved his wife As well ...
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
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 ...
Well, Bokardo, here we are; Make yourself at home. Look around-you haven't far To look-and why be dumb? Not the ...
I A HAPPY MAN (Carphyllides) When these graven lines you see, Traveler, do not pity me; Though I be among ...
"When he was here alive, Eileen, There was a word you might have said; So never mind what I have ...
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