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Edwin Arlington Robinson's Poetry, by first line

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  • The Altar
    Alone, remote, nor witting where I went,
    I found an altar builded in a dream—
    15 lines
  • Tasker Norcross
    “Whether all towns and all who live in them—
    So long as they be somewhere in this world
    335 lines
  • Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford
    You are a friend then, as I make it out,
    Of our man Shakespea
    416 lines
  • The Mill
    The miller's wife had waited long,
    The tea was cold, 
    25 lines
  • Mr. Flood's Party
    Old Eben Flood, climbing alone one night
    Over the hill between the 
    61 lines
  • Villanelle of Change
    Since Persia fell at Marathon,
    The yellow years have gathered fa
    19 lines, 1 comment
  • The House on the Hill
    They are all gone away,
    The House is shut and still,
    19 lines, 2 comments
  • Reuben Bright
    Because he was a butcher and thereby
    Did earn an honest living&nb
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Supremacy
    There is a drear and lonely tract of hell
    From all the commo
    14 lines
  • Octaves
    I
    We thrill too strangely at the master's touch;
    216 lines
  • Miniver Cheevy
    Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
    Grew lean while he assailed&nbs
    37 lines, 2 comments
  • Luke Havergal
    Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal,
    There where the vines cling crimson on the wall,
    32 lines
  • Calverly's
    We go no more to Calverly's,
    For there the lights are few and low;
    32 lines
  • The Clerks
    I did not think that I should find them there
    When I came back again; but there they stood,
    14 lines
  • The Companion
    Let him answer as he will,
    Or be lightsome as he may,
    14 lines
  • Dear Friends
    Dear Friends, reproach me not for what I do,
    Nor counsel me, nor pity me; nor say
    14 lines
  • Fleming Helphenstine
    At first I thought there was a superfine
    Persuasion in his face; but the free flow
    14 lines
  • New England
    Here where the wind is always north-north-east
    And children learn to walk on frozen toes,
    14 lines
  • A Song at Shannon's
    Two men came out of Shannon's, having known
    The faces of each other for so long
    14 lines
  • Souvenir
    A vanished house that for an hour I knew
    By some forgotten chance when I was young
    14 lines
  • Aaron Stark
    Withal a meagre man was Aaron Stark, --
    Cursed and unkempt, shrewd, shrivelled, and morose.
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • The Gift of God
    Blessed with a joy that only she
    Of all alive shall ever know,
    48 lines
  • The Field of Glory
    War shook the land where Levi dwelt,
    And fired the dismal wrath he felt,
    48 lines
  • Afterthoughts
    We parted where the old gas-lamp still burned
    Under the wayside maple and walked on,
    14 lines
  • Lost Anchors
    Like a dry fish flung inland far from shore,
    There lived a sailor, warped and ocean-browned,
    14 lines
  • Vain Gratuities
    Never was there a man much uglier
    In eyes of other women, or more grim:
    14 lines
  • Tact
    Observant of the way she told
    So much of what was true,
    24 lines
  • The Flying Dutchman
    Unyielding in the pride of his defiance,
    Afloat with none to serve or to command,
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • Firelight
    Ten years together without yet a cloud
    They seek each other's eyes at intervals
    14 lines
  • Cassandra
    I heard one who said: "Verily,
    What word have I for children here?
    48 lines
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