Octaves (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
I We thrill too strangely at the master's touch; We shrink too sadly from the larger self Which for its ...
I We thrill too strangely at the master's touch; We shrink too sadly from the larger self Which for its ...
"Gawaine, Gawaine, what look ye for to see, So far beyond the faint edge of the world? D'ye look to ...
(AMSTERDAM, 1645) And there you are again, now as you are. Observe yourself as you discern yourself In your discredited ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
I A HAPPY MAN (Carphyllides) When these graven lines you see, Traveler, do not pity me; Though I be among ...
When he protested, not too solemnly, That for a world's achieving maintenance The crust of overdone divinity Lacked aliment, they ...
Like a dry fish flung inland far from shore, There lived a sailor, warped and ocean-browned, Who told of an ...
"No, Mary, there was nothing-not a word. Nothing, and always nothing. Go again Yourself, and he may listen-or at least ...
Could he have made Priscilla share The paradise that he had planned, Llewellyn would have loved his wife As well ...
Up from the street and the crowds that went, Morning and midnight, to and fro, Still was the room where ...
I saw by looking in his eyes That they remembered everything; And this was how I came to know That ...
Whenever I go by there nowadays And look at the rank weeds and the strange grass, The torn blue curtains ...
He took a frayed hat from his head, And "Peace on Earth" was what he said. "A morsel out of ...
OR THE CONTENTED METAPHYSICIAN TO the lore of no manner of men Would his vision have yielded When he found ...
Though not for common praise of him, Nor yet for pride or charity, Still would I make to Vanderberg One ...
Where a faint light shines alone, Dwells a Demon I have known. Most of you had better say "The Dark ...
NOTE.-The following imaginary dialogue between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any specific incident in American ...
Now in a thought, now in a shadowed word, Now in a voice that thrills eternity, Ever there comes an ...
I heard one who said: "Verily, What word have I for children here? Your Dollar is your only Word, The ...
Once, when I wandered in the woods alone, An old man tottered up to me and said, "Come, friend, and ...
I Partly to think, more to be left alone, George Annandale said something to his friends- A word or two, ...
Take it away, and swallow it yourself. Ha! Look you, there's a rat. Last night there were a dozen on ...
Down by the flash of the restless water The dim White Ship like a white bird lay; Laughing at life ...
Well, Bokardo, here we are; Make yourself at home. Look around-you haven't far To look-and why be dumb? Not the ...
"There, but for the grace of God, goes." There is a question that I ask, And ask again: What hunger ...
(To Mrs. Edward MacDowell) No sound of any storm that shakes Old island walls with older seas Comes here where ...
When the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum, and The Three Taverns.-(Acts ...
(ALCAICS) Confused, he found her lavishing feminine Gold upon clay, and found her inscrutable; And yet she smiled. Why, then, ...
(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 ...
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