John Gorham (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
"Tell me what you're doing over here, John Gorham, Sighing hard and seeming to be sorry when you're not; Make ...
"Tell me what you're doing over here, John Gorham, Sighing hard and seeming to be sorry when you're not; Make ...
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
Pamela was too gentle to deceive Her roses. "Let the men stay where they are," She said, "and if Apollo's ...
O'Leary was a poet-for a while: He sang of many ladies frail and fair, The rolling glory of their golden ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
The Master played the bishop's pawn, For jest, while Atherton looked on; The master played this way and that, And ...
He took a frayed hat from his head, And "Peace on Earth" was what he said. "A morsel out of ...
Since you remember Nimmo, and arrive At such a false and florid and far drawn Confusion of odd nonsense, I ...
Aunt Imogen was coming, and therefore The children-Jane, Sylvester, and Young George- Were eyes and ears; for there was only ...
Though not for common praise of him, Nor yet for pride or charity, Still would I make to Vanderberg One ...
When he, who is the unforgiven, Beheld her first, he found her fair: No promise ever dreamt in heaven Could ...
Blue in the west the mountain stands, And through the long twilight Vickery sits with folded hands, And Vickery's eyes ...
"Do I hear them? Yes, I hear the children singing-and what of it? Have you come with eyes afire to ...
Well, Bokardo, here we are; Make yourself at home. Look around-you haven't far To look-and why be dumb? Not the ...
Gawaine, aware again of Lancelot In the King's garden, coughed and followed him; Whereat he turned and stood with folded ...
"Whether all towns and all who live in them- So long as they be somewhere in this world That we ...
"Gawaine, Gawaine, what look ye for to see, So far beyond the faint edge of the world? D'ye look to ...
NOTE.-Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage-so far as ...
I A HAPPY MAN (Carphyllides) When these graven lines you see, Traveler, do not pity me; Though I be among ...
"No, Mary, there was nothing-not a word. Nothing, and always nothing. Go again Yourself, and he may listen-or at least ...
There were faces to remember in the Valley of the Shadow, There were faces unregarded, there were faces to forget; ...
OR THE CONTENTED METAPHYSICIAN TO the lore of no manner of men Would his vision have yielded When he found ...
Of all among the fallen from on high, We count you last and leave you to regain Your born dominion ...
(To Mrs. Henry Richards) Isaac and Archibald were two old men. I knew them, and I may have laughed at ...
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