The Story Of The Ashes And The Flame (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
No matter why, nor whence, nor when she came, There was her place. No matter what men said, No matter ...
No matter why, nor whence, nor when she came, There was her place. No matter what men said, No matter ...
The doubt you fought so long The cynic net you cast, The tyranny, the wrong, The ruin, they are past; ...
When the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum, and The Three Taverns.-(Acts ...
Since Persia fell at Marathon, The yellow years have gathered fast: Long centuries have come and gone. And yet (they ...
They have made for Leonora this low dwelling in the ground, And with cedar they have woven the four walls ...
Although I saw before me there the face Of one whom I had honored among men The least, and on ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
(To Mrs. Henry Richards) Isaac and Archibald were two old men. I knew them, and I may have laughed at ...
"Whether all towns and all who live in them- So long as they be somewhere in this world That we ...
She fears him, and will always ask What fated her to choose him; She meets in his engaging mask All ...
Long after there were none of them alive About the place-where there is now no place But a walled hole ...
I-THE LURE No, no,-forget your Cricket and your Ant, For I shall never set my name to theirs That now ...
Old Archibald, in his eternal chair, Where trespassers, whatever their degree, Were soon frowned out again, was looking off Across ...
Never mind the day we left, or the day the women clung to us; All we need now is the ...
Take it away, and swallow it yourself. Ha! Look you, there's a rat. Last night there were a dozen on ...
(WASHINGTON SQUARE) I met him, as one meets a ghost or two, Between the gray Arch and the old Hotel. ...
Aunt Imogen was coming, and therefore The children-Jane, Sylvester, and Young George- Were eyes and ears; for there was only ...
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
"Do I hear them? Yes, I hear the children singing-and what of it? Have you come with eyes afire to ...
"Be calm? And was I frantic? You'll have me laughing soon. I'm calm as this Atlantic, And quiet as the ...
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
Alone, remote, nor witting where I went, I found an altar builded in a dream- A fiery place, whereof there ...
NOTE.-The following imaginary dialogue between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any specific incident in American ...
"The sea is everywhere the sea." I Gone-faded out of the story, the sea-faring friend I remember? Gone for a ...
I A HAPPY MAN (Carphyllides) When these graven lines you see, Traveler, do not pity me; Though I be among ...
Once there was a cabin here, and once there was a man; And something happened here before my memory began. ...
In dreams I crossed a barren land, A land of ruin, far away; Around me hung on every hand A ...
Whenever I go by there nowadays And look at the rank weeds and the strange grass, The torn blue curtains ...
Time was when his half million drew The breath of six per cent; But soon the worm of what-was-not Fed ...
Though not for common praise of him, Nor yet for pride or charity, Still would I make to Vanderberg One ...
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