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by Edwin Arlington Robinson

by Edwin Arlington Robinson



To the memory of WILLIAM EDWARD BUTLER



[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are capitalized. Lines longer than 78 characters are broken and the continuation is indented two spaces. Some obvious errors may have been corrected.]


Several of the poems included in this book are reprinted from American periodicals, as follows: "The Gift of God", "Old King Cole", "Another Dark Lady", and "The Unforgiven"; "Flammonde" and "The Poor Relation"; "The Clinging Vine"; "Eros Turannos" and "Bokardo"; "The Voice of Age"; "Cassandra"; "The Burning Book"; "Theophilus"; "Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford".






CONTENTS


THE MAN AGAINST THE SKY


Flammonde

The Gift of God

The Clinging Vine

Cassandra

John Gorham

Stafford's Cabin

Hillcrest

Old King Cole

Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford

Eros Turannos

Old Trails

The Unforgiven

Theophilus

Veteran Sirens

Siege Perilous

Another Dark Lady

The Voice of Age

The Dark House

The Poor Relation

The Burning Book

Fragment

Lisette and Eileen

Llewellyn and the Tree

Bewick Finzer

Bokardo

The Man against the Sky

Notes on the etext:

About the author: Edwin Arlington Robinson, 1869-1935.





THE MAN AGAINST THE SKY





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