Arlington Robinson

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    “Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn
    Grew lean while he assailed the seasons;
    He wept that he was ever born,
    And he had reasons.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “So on we worked, and waited for the light,
    And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
    And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
    Went home and put a bullet through his head.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “Your Dollar is your only Word,
    The wrath of it your only fear.

    “You build it altars tall enough
    To make you see, but your are blind;
    You cannot leave it long enough
    To look before you or behind.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)