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Collected poems
Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935)
COLLECTED POEMS
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[acknowledgements]
CONTENTS
THE MAN AGAINST THE SKY (1916)
THE CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT (1890-1897)
JOHN EVERELDOWN
LUKE HAVERGAL
THREE QUATRAINS
AN OLD STORY
BALLADE BY THE FIRE
BALLADE OF BROKEN FLUTES
HER EYES
TWO MEN
VILLANELLE OF CHANGE
THE HOUSE ON THE HILL
RICHARD CORY
BOSTON
CALVARY
DEAR FRIENDS
THE STORY OF THE ASHES AND THE FLAME
AMARYLLIS
ZOLA
THE PITY OF THE LEAVES
AARON STARK
THE GARDEN
CLIFF KLINGENHAGEN
CHARLES CARVILLE'S EYES
THE DEAD VILLAGE
TWO SONNETS
THE CLERKS
FLEMING HELPHENSTINE
THOMAS HOOD
HORACE TO LEUCONOË
REUBEN BRIGHT
THE ALTAR
THE TAVERN
SONNET
GEORGE CRABBE
CREDO
ON THE NIGHT OF A FRIEND'S WEDDING
SONNET
VERLAINE
SONNET
SUPREMACY
THE CHORUS OF OLD MEN IN "ÆGEUS"
THE WILDERNESS
OCTAVES
TWO QUATRAINS
I.
I
II.
II
THE TORRENT
L'ENVOI
CAPTAIN CRAIG, ETC. (1902)
MERLIN (1917)
THE TOWN DOWN THE RIVER (1910)
LANCELOT (1920)
THE THREE TAVERNS (1920)
AVON'S HARVEST, ETC. (1921)
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II. II
We
shriek to live, but no man ever lives
Till he has rid the ghost of human breath;
We dream to die, but no man ever dies
Till he has quit the road that runs to death.
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