A Book of Poems

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 ]

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


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