Collected Poems Author:Edwin Arlington Robinson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: "Sure I never took you for a mouse, John Gorham; All you say is easy, but so far from being true That I wish you wouldn't ever be again the one to think so;... more » For it isn't cats and butterflies that I would be to you."— "All your little animals are in one picture— One I've had before me since a year ago to-night; And the picture where they live will be of you, Jane Wayland, Till you find a way to kill them or to keep them out of sight."— "Won't you ever see me as I am, John Gorham, Leaving out the foolishness and all I never meant ? Somewhere in me there's a woman, if you know the way to find her. Will you like me any better if I prove it and repent ?"— "I doubt if I shall ever have the time, Jane Wayland; And I dare say all this moonlight lying round us might as well Fall for nothing on the shards of broken urns that are forgotten, As on two that have no longer much of anything to tell." STAFFORD'S CABIN Once there was a cabin here, and once there was a man; And something happened here before my memory began. Time has made the two of them the fuel of one flame And all we have of them is now a legend and a name. All I have to say is what an old man said to mo, And that would seem to be as much as there will ever be. "Fifty years ago it was we found it where it sat."— And forty years ago it was old Archibald said that. "An apple tree that's yet alive saw something, I suppose, Of what it was that happened there, and what no mortal knov Some one on the mountain heard far off a master shriek, And then there was a light that showed the way for men seek. "We found it in the morning with an iron bar behind, And there were chains around it; but no search could ever find Either in the ashes that were left, or anywhere, A sign to...« less