{"id":420,"date":"2010-05-05T00:50:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T00:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=420"},"modified":"2017-07-11T05:13:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T05:13:08","slug":"fragment-by-edwin-arlington-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/fragment-by-edwin-arlington-robinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Fragment by Edwin Arlington Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fragment by Edwin Arlington Robinson<\/p>\n

Faint white pillars that seem to fade
\nAs you look from here are the first one sees
\nOf his house where it hides and dies in a shade
\nOf beeches and oaks and hickory trees.
\nNow many a man, given woods like these,
\nAnd a house like that, and the Briony gold,
\nWould have said, “There are still some gods to please,
\nAnd houses are built without hands, we’re told.”<\/p>\n

There are the pillars, and all gone gray.
\nBriony’s hair went white. You may see
\nWhere the garden was if you come this way.
\nThat sun-dial scared him, he said to me;
\n“Sooner or later they strike,” said he,
\nAnd he never got that from the books he read.
\nOthers are flourishing, worse than he,
\nBut he knew too much for the life he led.<\/p>\n

And who knows all knows everything
\nThat a patient ghost at last retrieves;
\nThere’s more to be known of his harvesting
\nWhen Time the thresher unbinds the sheaves;
\nAnd there’s more to be heard than a wind that grieves
\nFor Briony now in this ageless oak,
\nDriving the first of its withered leaves
\nOver the stones where the fountain broke.<\/p>\n

About Edwin Robinson: Born at Head Tide, Maine, Dec. 22, 1869. Educated at Harvard University. Mr. Robinson is a psychological poet of great subtlety; his poems are usually studies of types and he has given us a remarkable series of portraits. He is recognized as one of the finest and most distinguished poets of our time. He won <\/em>three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About Edwin Robinson: Born at Head Tide, Maine, Dec. 22, 1869. Educated at Harvard University. Mr. Robinson is a psychological poet of great subtlety; his poems are usually studies of types and he has given us a remarkable series of portraits. He is recognized as one of the finest and most distinguished poets of our time. He won three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,84,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s","category-1900s","category-nature-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}