Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson (December 22, 1869 – April 6, 1935) was an American poet who won three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.

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    “But what she meets and what she fears
    Are less than are the downward years,
    Drawn slowly to the foamless weirs
    Of age, were she to lose him.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “Your Dollar is your only Word,
    The wrath of it your only fear.

    ‘You build it altars tall enough
    To make you see, but your are blind;
    You cannot leave it long enough
    To look before you or behind.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “Are we no greater than the noise we make
    Along one blind atomic pilgrimage
    Whereon by crass chance billeted we go
    Because our brains and bones and cartilage
    Will have it so?”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “He comes unfailing for the loan
    We give and then forget;
    He comes, and probably for years
    Will he be coming yet,—
    Familiar as an old mistake,
    And futile as regret.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “When infant Science makes a pleasant face
    And waves again that hollow toy, the Race;”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)