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Edward Rowland Sill

I lived from 1841-1889. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

I influenced poet Robert Frost.

Edward Rowland Sill (April 29, 1841 – February 27, 1887) American poet and essayist was born in Winsor, Connecticut. He was orphaned when young and brought up by his uncle, Elisha Sill in Ohio.

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Links of interest include http://www.famousamericans.net/edwardrowlandsill/

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  • Opportunity
    This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:--
    There spread a cloud of dust along a plain;
    18 lines, 2 comments
  • The Secret
    A TIDE of sun and song in beauty broke
    Against a bitter heart, where no voice woke
    51 lines
  • The Tree Of My Life
    When I was yet but a child, the gardener gave me a tree,
    A little slim elm, to be set wherever seemed good to me
    42 lines
  • Lost Love
    BURY it, and sift
    Dust upon its light,—
    28 lines
  • The Philosopher
    HIS wheel of logic whirled and spun all day;
    All day he held his system, grinding it
    6 lines
  • A Paradox
    HASTE, haste, O laggard!—leave thy drowsy dreams;
    Cram all thy brain with knowledge—clutch and cram!
    10 lines
  • The Dead President
    WERE there no crowns on earth,
    No evergreen to weave a hero's wreath,
    47 lines
  • Summer Rain
    I SAID: "Blue heaven" (Oh, it was beautiful!),
    "Send me a tent to shut me to myself:
    14 lines
  • At Dawn
    I LAY awake and listened, ere the light
    Began to whiten at the window pane.
    21 lines
  • Roland
    A FOOLISH creature full of fears,
    He trembled for his fate,
    58 lines
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