Robinson

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    Like a wild stranger out of wizard-land
    He dwelt a little with us, and withdrew;
    Black and unblossomed were the ways he knew,
    Dark was the glass through which his fire eye shined.
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
    “Good-morning,” and he glittered when he walked.
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    Passion is here a soilure of the wits,
    We’re told, and Love a cross for them to bear;
    Joy shivers in the corner where she knits
    And Conscience always has the rocking-chair,
    Cheerful as when she tortured into fits
    The first cat that was ever killed by Care.
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)