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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.

THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES

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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BEN JONSON ENTERTAINS A MAN FROM STRATFORD

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[Following line 318:
“He's fribbling all the time with that damned House.”]

But he's not of our time, or any time;
He's of all time. He needs Greek, even at that,—
And a little braver manner with a shilling
O' mornings for the more nefarious
And out o' nights, who are to be forgotten;
Though I'd assure ye—and I'm saying this—
The worthy, for a word, may have his breeches.