One poem in this collection tells how "The glory of Greek shame" was cast "into silent Acheron" after the battle of Marathon, and another describes a man who "in God's hand has weighed /
One poem in this collection tells how "The glory of Greek shame" was cast "into silent Acheron" after the battle of Marathon, and another describes a man who "in God's hand has weighed / Your squeamish and emasculate crusade / Against the grim dominion of his art." In addition to "Villanelle of Change" and "Zola," it includes sonnets about a poet whose "hard, human pulse is throbbing still," George Crabbe, and a butcher who tears down his slaughterhouse in response to his wife's death, Reuben Bright. Its title poem asserts "It is the promise of the day / that makes the starry sky sublime," and implores the title group to "put off the cloak that hides the scar." It also includes poems about a character ordered to "go to the western gate," and "a gentleman from sole to crown" who "went home and put a bullet through his head." Including "Luke Havergal" and "Richard Cory," FTP, name this poetry collection by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
One poem in this collection tells how "The glory of Greek shame" was cast "into silent Acheron" after the battle of Marathon, and another describes a man who "in God's hand has weighed /
The {Children} of the {Night}