London Bridge (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
"Do I hear them? Yes, I hear the children singing-and what of it? Have you come with eyes afire to ...
"Do I hear them? Yes, I hear the children singing-and what of it? Have you come with eyes afire to ...
I Just as I wonder at the twofold screen Of twisted innocence that you would plait For eyes that uncourageously ...
Unyielding in the pride of his defiance, Afloat with none to serve or to command, Lord of himself at last, ...
I Partly to think, more to be left alone, George Annandale said something to his friends- A word or two, ...
We told of him as one who should have soared And seen for us the devastating light Whereof there is ...
Long warned of many terrors more severe To scorch him than hell's engines could awaken, He scanned again, too far ...
NOTE.-The following imaginary dialogue between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any specific incident in American ...
"Whether all towns and all who live in them- So long as they be somewhere in this world That we ...
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
And there we were together again- Together again, we three: Morgan, Fingal, fiddle, and all, They had come for the ...
"Where are you going to-night, to-night, -- Where are you going, John Evereldown? There's never the sign of a star ...
NOTE.-Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage-so far as ...
Here there is death. But even here, they say, Here where the dull sun shines this afternoon As desolate as ...
The day was here when it was his to know How fared the barriers he had built between His triumph ...
I saw by looking in his eyes That they remembered everything; And this was how I came to know That ...
The miller's wife had waited long, The tea was cold, the fire was dead; And there might yet be nothing ...
The man Flammonde, from God knows where, With firm address and foreign air With news of nations in his talk ...
She fears him, and will always ask What fated her to choose him; She meets in his engaging mask All ...
(To Mrs. Henry Richards) Isaac and Archibald were two old men. I knew them, and I may have laughed at ...
Old Archibald, in his eternal chair, Where trespassers, whatever their degree, Were soon frowned out again, was looking off Across ...
(WASHINGTON SQUARE) I met him, as one meets a ghost or two, Between the gray Arch and the old Hotel. ...
If ever I am old, and all alone, I shall have killed one grief, at any rate; For then, thank ...
You that in vain would front the coming order With eyes that meet forlornly what they must, And only with ...
"They called it Annandale-and I was there To flourish, to find words, and to attend: Liar, physician, hypocrite, and friend, ...
"Tell me what you're doing over here, John Gorham, Sighing hard and seeming to be sorry when you're not; Make ...
I heard one who said: "Verily, What word have I for children here? Your Dollar is your only Word, The ...
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
FIRST VOICE So long adrift, so fast aground, What foam and ruin have we found- We, the Wise Brothers? Could ...
Not even if with a wizard force I might Have summoned whomsoever I would name, Should anyone else have come ...
For those that never know the light, The darkness is a sullen thing; And they, the Children of the Night, ...
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