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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TACT, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Observant of the way she told Last Line: Alone below the stars. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Tact | |||
OBSERVANT of the way she told So much of what was true, No vanity could long withhold Regard that was her due: She spared him the familiar guile, So easily achieved, That only made a man to smile And left him undeceived. Aware that all imagining Of more than what she meant Would urge an end of everything, He stayed; and when he went, They parted with a merry word That was to him as light As any that was ever heard Upon a starry night. She smiled a little, knowing well That he would not remark The ruins of a day that fell Around her in the dark: He saw no ruins anywhere, Nor fancied there were scars On anyone who lingered there, Alone below the stars. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MR. BARCALOW'S BREAKDOWN by OGDEN NASH A POEM FOR MAX NORDAU by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON AN EVANGELIST'S WIFE by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON AN ISLAND (SAINT HELENA, 1821) by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON ANOTHER DARK LADY by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON BALLADE OF DEAD FRIENDS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON CAPUT MORTUUM by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON CHARLES CARVILLE'S EYES by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON CORTEGE by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON DEMOS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |
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