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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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Strophe II

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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Strophe II

Unsatisfactory

[And language has he learned and wind-swift thought]
And speech and soaring wisdom has he learned,
With human measures and a way to shun
The sharp and painful arrows of the frost.
Full of resource, of all the future brings,

This is the part that sticks me more than all the rest.

Resourceless meets he nothing; Death alone
He never shall escape; but he has found
[A cure] for life's unyielding maladies. [a cure].