Leonora (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
They have made for Leonora this low dwelling in the ground, And with cedar they have woven the four walls ...
They have made for Leonora this low dwelling in the ground, And with cedar they have woven the four walls ...
You Eyes, you large and all-inquiring Eyes. That look so dubiously into me, And are not satisfied with what you ...
Vengeful across the cold November moors, Loud with ancestral shame there came the bleak Sad wind that shrieked, and answered ...
Blue in the west the mountain stands, And through the long twilight Vickery sits with folded hands, And Vickery's eyes ...
I-THE LURE No, no,-forget your Cricket and your Ant, For I shall never set my name to theirs That now ...
There is a drear and lonely tract of hell From all the common gloom removed afar: A flat, sad land ...
Up from the street and the crowds that went, Morning and midnight, to and fro, Still was the room where ...
FIRST VOICE So long adrift, so fast aground, What foam and ruin have we found- We, the Wise Brothers? Could ...
The ghost of Ninon would be sorry now To laugh at them, were she to see them here, So brave ...
I A HAPPY MAN (Carphyllides) When these graven lines you see, Traveler, do not pity me; Though I be among ...
It may have been the pride in me for aught I know, or just a patronizing whim; But call it ...
Let him answer as he will, Or be lightsome as he may, Now nor after shall he say Worn-out words ...
You that in vain would front the coming order With eyes that meet forlornly what they must, And only with ...
When he protested, not too solemnly, That for a world's achieving maintenance The crust of overdone divinity Lacked aliment, they ...
Well, Bokardo, here we are; Make yourself at home. Look around-you haven't far To look-and why be dumb? Not the ...
The day was here when it was his to know How fared the barriers he had built between His triumph ...
Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole ...
There is a fenceless garden overgrown With buds and blossoms and all sorts of leaves; And once, among the roses ...
Dear Friends, reproach me not for what I do, Nor counsel me, nor pity me; nor say That I am ...
"Why am I not myself these many days, You ask? And have you nothing more to ask? I do you ...
Unyielding in the pride of his defiance, Afloat with none to serve or to command, Lord of himself at last, ...
He knocked, and I beheld him at the door-- A vision for the gods to verify. "What battered ancient is ...
I As eons of incalculable strife Are in the vision of one moment caught, So are the common, concrete things ...
(To Mrs. Edward MacDowell) No sound of any storm that shakes Old island walls with older seas Comes here where ...
Faint white pillars that seem to fade As you look from here are the first one sees Of his house ...
"The sea is everywhere the sea." I Gone-faded out of the story, the sea-faring friend I remember? Gone for a ...
I Not by the grief that stuns and overwhelms All outward recognition of revealed And righteous omnipresence are the days ...
Here was a place where none would ever come For shelter, save as we did from the rain. We saw ...
Some are the brothers of all humankind, And own them, whatsoever their estate; And some, for sorrow and self-scorn, are ...
When these graven lines you see, Traveller, do not pity me; Though I be among the dead, Let no mournful ...
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