Sonnet 32: The Children of the Night (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Oh for a poet-for a beacon bright To rift this changless glimmer of dead gray; To spirit back the Muses, ...
Oh for a poet-for a beacon bright To rift this changless glimmer of dead gray; To spirit back the Muses, ...
"Gawaine, Gawaine, what look ye for to see, So far beyond the faint edge of the world? D'ye look to ...
"Where are you going to-night, to-night, -- Where are you going, John Evereldown? There's never the sign of a star ...
I A HAPPY MAN (Carphyllides) When these graven lines you see, Traveler, do not pity me; Though I be among ...
Come away! come away! there's a frost along the marshes, And a frozen wind that skims the shoal where it ...
Once, when I wandered in the woods alone, An old man tottered up to me and said, "Come, friend, and ...
The man Flammonde, from God knows where, With firm address and foreign air With news of nations in his talk ...
Because he was a butcher and thereby Did earn an honest living (and did right), I would not have you ...
Never mind the day we left, or the day the women clung to us; All we need now is the ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
"Tell me what you're doing over here, John Gorham, Sighing hard and seeming to be sorry when you're not; Make ...
Oh for a poet-for a beacon bright To rift this changless glimmer of dead gray; To spirit back the Muses, ...
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
Up from the street and the crowds that went, Morning and midnight, to and fro, Still was the room where ...
(AMSTERDAM, 1645) And there you are again, now as you are. Observe yourself as you discern yourself In your discredited ...
Take it away, and swallow it yourself. Ha! Look you, there's a rat. Last night there were a dozen on ...
Since you remember Nimmo, and arrive At such a false and florid and far drawn Confusion of odd nonsense, I ...
(ALCAICS) Confused, he found her lavishing feminine Gold upon clay, and found her inscrutable; And yet she smiled. Why, then, ...
I Partly to think, more to be left alone, George Annandale said something to his friends- A word or two, ...
Aunt Imogen was coming, and therefore The children-Jane, Sylvester, and Young George- Were eyes and ears; for there was only ...
Never was there a man much uglier In eyes of other women, or more grim: "The Lord has filled her ...
"Do I hear them? Yes, I hear the children singing-and what of it? Have you come with eyes afire to ...
"Whether all towns and all who live in them- So long as they be somewhere in this world That we ...
Gawaine, aware again of Lancelot In the King's garden, coughed and followed him; Whereat he turned and stood with folded ...
And there we were together again- Together again, we three: Morgan, Fingal, fiddle, and all, They had come for the ...
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
NOTE.-Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage-so far as ...
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