...You must destroy us through our victory over you. EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Edwin Arlington Robinson THE DARK HILLS DARK hills at evening in the west,...last of days Were fading, and all wars were done. CARL SANDBURG CLEAN CURTAINS NEW neighbors come to the corner house at Congress and Green streets....

...will-o'the-wisps, have darkened the poet's vision in some degree. Is there not here a wistful longing? — Dark hills at evening in the west, Where sunset hovers...last of days Were fading, and all wars were done. But Mr. Robinson's wistfulness is tempered by irony. His lip curls as he writes of the false prophets...

...been heard no more Than foam that washes on an island shore Where there are none to listen or to care. THE DARK HILLS Dark hills at evening in the west,...last of days Were fading, and all wars were done. Edgar Lee Masters Edgar Lee Masters was born at Garnett, Kansas, August 23, 1869, of old Puritan and...

...old theme is new evidence of the author's power as a delineator of the emotions of the truly living. THE DARK HILLS. Dark hills at evening in the west...last of days Were fading, and all wars were done. Sandburg, Carl. Cornhuskers. 1918. Mr. Sandburg is essentially a reactionary and an idealist. In scarcely...

...heard no more Than foam that washes on an island shore "Where there are none to listen or to care. THE DARK HILLS Dark hills at evening in the west,...bannered ways Where flash the legions of the sun, You fade—as if the last of days Were fading, and all wars were done. Edgar Lee Masters Edgar Lee Masters...

...and "The Valley of the Shadow" which are didactic; and a very few pure lyrics. I quote one of them, THE DARK HILLS Dark hills at evening in the west,...last of days Were fading, and all wars were done. Lyrical, denned as a quality rather than as a form, Robinson practically never is. He does not feel,...

...would have rid the earth of him Once, in my pride! . . . I never knew the worth of him Until he died. K THE DARK HILLS Dark hills at evening in the west,...last of days Were fading, and all wars were done. v RICHARD CORY1 Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was...

...years." Could anything be more nearly perfect than the two poems which are given below? THE DARK HILLS Old bones of warriors under ground, Far now from all...last of days Were fading, and all wars were done. Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869- ) MONADNOCK THROUGH THE TREES Before there was in Egypt any sound Of...

...as poignant as "The Mill" and a lyric which is the very epitome of Robinson's musical condensation. THE DARK HILLS Dark hills at evening in the west,...last of days Were fading, and all wars were done. All of Robinson's books already mentioned may be found, with the addition of a dozen new poems and...

...a thousand years." Could anything be more nearly perfect than the two poems which are given below? THE DARK HILLS Dark hills at evening in the west,...last of days Were fading, and all wars were done. Edwin Arlington Robinson (1889- ) MONADNOCK THROUGH THE TREES Before there was in Egypt any sound Of...