ISBN: 9781153710824

Excerpt: ...that, and all the ghosts rose then, And followed us unseen to his old room. No longer a good place for living men We found it, and we shivered in the gloom. The goods he took … Plus…

Excerpt: ...that, and all the ghosts rose then, And followed us unseen to his old room. No longer a good place for living men We found it, and we shivered in the gloom. The goods he took away from there were few, And soon we found ourselves outside once more, Where now the lamps along the Avenue Bloomed white for miles above an iron floor. Now lead me to the newest of hotels, He said, and let your spleen be undeceived: This ruin is not myself, but some one else; I haven''t failed; I''ve merely not achieved. Whether he knew or not, he laughed and dined With more of an immune regardlessness Of pits before him and of sands behind Than many a child at forty would confess; And after, when the bells in ''Boris'' rang Their tumult at the Metropolitan, He rocked himself, and I believe he sang. God lives, he crooned aloud, and I''m the man! He was. And even though the creature spoiled All prophecies, I cherish his acclaim. Three weeks he fattened; and five years he toiled In Yonkers, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Books, Fiction and Literature, The Man Against The Sky Books>Fiction and Literature, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153710824

Excerpt: ...that, and all the ghosts rose then, And followed us unseen to his old room. No longer a good place for living men We found it, and we shivered in the gloom. The goods he took … Plus…

Excerpt: ...that, and all the ghosts rose then, And followed us unseen to his old room. No longer a good place for living men We found it, and we shivered in the gloom. The goods he took away from there were few, And soon we found ourselves outside once more, Where now the lamps along the Avenue Bloomed white for miles above an iron floor. Now lead me to the newest of hotels, He said, and let your spleen be undeceived: This ruin is not myself, but some one else; I haven''t failed; I''ve merely not achieved. Whether he knew or not, he laughed and dined With more of an immune regardlessness Of pits before him and of sands behind Than many a child at forty would confess; And after, when the bells in ''Boris'' rang Their tumult at the Metropolitan, He rocked himself, and I believe he sang. God lives, he crooned aloud, and I''m the man! He was. And even though the creature spoiled All prophecies, I cherish his acclaim. Three weeks he fattened; and five years he toiled In Yonkers, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Books, Fiction and Literature, The Man Against The Sky Books>Fiction and Literature <

ISBN: 9781153710824

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