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Uncollected poems and prose of Edwin Arlington Robinson

Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935)

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PALAEMON—DAMOETAS—MENALCAS

THE CLAM-DIGGER

THE GALLEY RACE

BALLADE OF A SHIP

BALLADE OF DEAD MARINERS: ENVOI

FOR A COPY OF POE'S POEMS

TAVERN SONGS: CHORUS.

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THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES

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FOR A BOOK BY THOMAS HARDY

EDWARD ALPHABET

THE CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT

“I MAKE NO MEASURE OF THE WORDS THEY SAY”

FOR SOME POEMS BY MATTHEW ARNOLD

BALLADE OF DEAD FRIENDS

A POEM FOR MAX NORDAU

THE NIGHT BEFORE

PLUMMER STREET, GARDINER, MAINE

VARIATIONS OF GREEK THEMES, V

BEN JONSON ENTERTAINS A MAN FROM STRATFORD

A WREATH FOR EDWIN MARKHAM

TOO MUCH COFFEE

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“—money is the most accursed thing
That man has ever made; it strikes down cities
And scatters families; it leads away
Good souls of men to foul accomplishments
And teaches them the practice of all guile
And all iniquity.”

[Lines 296–301 November 48, 1894]