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A thousand golden sheaves were lying there,
Shining and still, but not for long to stay—
As if a thousand girls with golden hair
Might rise from where they slept and go away.
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Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal,
There where the vines cling crimson on the wall,
And in the twilight wait for what will come.
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The small intolerable drums
Of time are like slow drops descending.
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Still searching, like poor old astronomers, Who totter off to bed and go to sleep To dream of untriangulated stars.
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I cannot find my way: there is no star
In all the shrouded heavens anywhere
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The gods are growing old;
The stars are singing Golden hair to gray
Green leaf to yellow leaf,—or chlorophyl
To xanthophyl, to be more scientific.
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
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Born:
December 22, 1869
Died:
April 6, 1935
(aged 65)
Bio:
Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet who won three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
Known for:
Richard Cory
The Man Against the Sky: A Book of Poems (1916)
Children of The Night (1897)
The town down the river (1910)
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