Classic stories of the author Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson was one of the most prolific major American poets of the 20th century. Ironically, despite his extensive literary output, very few of his poems have won renown. Nowadays, he is regarded as unique among the American poets of his time for his devotion to his art. During his lifetime, he won 3 Pulitzer Prizes and was nominated 4 times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Why He Was There

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Much as he left it when he went from us Here was the room again where he had been So long that something of him should be seen, Or felt–and so it was. Incredulous, I turned about, loath to be ... [+]

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The House on the Hill

Edwin Arlington Robinson

They are all gone away, The House is shut and still, There is nothing more to say.
Through broken walls and gray The winds blow bleak and shrill: They are all gone away.
Nor is there one ... [+]

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Richard Cory

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed, And ... [+]

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Ballade of Dead Friends

Edwin Arlington Robinson

As we the withered ferns By the roadway lying, Time, the jester, spurns All our prayers and prying– All our tears and sighing, Sorrow, change, and woe– All our where-and-whying For friends that come ... [+]

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Mr. Flood's Party

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Old Eben Flood, climbing alone one night Over the hill between the town below And the forsaken upland hermitage That held as much as he should ever know On earth again of home, paused warily. The ... [+]