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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

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:
  1. Richard Cory
  2. The Man Against the Sky: A Book of Poems (1916)
  3. Children of The Night (1897)
  4. The town down the river (1910)
  5. Robinson: Poems
Most used words:
kind, golden, love, leaf, miniver, time

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