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''So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.''
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Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), U.S. poet. Richard Cory (l. 13-16). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Ox...
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''Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time,
Tiering the same dull webs of discontent,
Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.''
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Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), U.S. poet. The Clerks (l. 12-14). . .
Anthology of American Poetry. George Gesner, ed. (1983) Avenel Books.
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Christopher Gozdava (1/11/2012 1:20:00 PM)
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The poem A Happy Man is an example for me of poorly sounding, but a metrically correct poem. One more proof that it is not a form but a final pleasing outcome that makes any art valuable.
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