THE TOWN DOWN THE RIVER

[iii]

THE TOWN DOWN THE RIVER

A BOOK OF POEMS

BY

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

1910

[Pg iv]

Copyright, 1910, by

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

Published September, 1910

[v]

TO

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

[vii]

THE MASTER[1]

[3]

(LINCOLN)

[1] Supposed to have been written not long after the Civil War.

[9]

THE TOWN DOWN THE RIVER

[11]

I

[14]

II

[17]

III

[20]

IV

[23]

AN ISLAND

[25]

(SAINT HELENA, 1821)

[39]

CALVERLY’S

[41]

CALVERLY’S

[44]

LEFFINGWELL

I—THE LURE

[46]

II—THE QUICKSTEP

[48]

III—REQUIESCAT

[50]

CLAVERING

[54]

LINGARD AND THE STARS

[57]

MISCELLANEOUS

[59]

PASA THALASSA THALASSA

“The sea is everywhere the sea.”

I

[62]

II

[64]

MOMUS

[66]

UNCLE ANANIAS

[68]

THE WHIP

[71]

THE WHITE LIGHTS

(BROADWAY, 1906)

[73]

EXIT

[74]

NORMANDY

(From the French of Bérat)

[76]

LEONORA

[78]

THE WISE BROTHERS

FIRST VOICE

SECOND VOICE

THIRD VOICE

[80]

BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD

“There, but for the grace of God, goes....”

[83]

AU REVOIR

(MARCH 23, 1909.)

[85]

FOR ARVIA

ON HER FIFTH BIRTHDAY

[87]

THE SUNKEN CROWN

[89]

DOCTOR OF BILLIARDS

[91]

SHADRACH O’LEARY

[93]

HOW ANNANDALE WENT OUT

[95]

ALMA MATER

[97]

MINIVER CHEEVY

[100]

THE PILOT

[102]

VICKERY’S MOUNTAIN

[106]

BON VOYAGE

[109]

THE COMPANION

[111]

ATHERTON’S GAMBIT

[114]

FOR A DEAD LADY

[116]

TWO GARDENS IN LINNDALE

[123]

THE REVEALER

[125]

(ROOSEVELT)

He turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.... And the men of the city said unto him, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion?—Judges, 14.