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... ii Three Books of Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...tate University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. T... ...transmission, in any way. Three Books of Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series , Jim Mani... ...hed, instead, Till his cheeks were sere and his hairs were gray. “There are women enough, God knows,” he said. . . . “There are stars enough — when ... ...m going, to Tilbury Town. The men are asleep, — or awake, may be, — But the women are calling John Evereldown. Ever and ever they call for me, And wh... ...oing so late, so late, — Why are you going, John Evereldown?” “I follow the women wherever they call, — That’s why I’m going to Tilbury Town. God kn... ...n may fall, The shadows may creep and the dead men crawl, — But I follow the women wherever they call, And that’s why I’m going to Tilbury T own.” 1...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it -- 2. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house o...

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...Excerpt: CHORUS. Not marching in the fields of Thrasymene, Where Mars did mate the warlike Carthagens; Nor sporting in the dalliance of love, In courts of kings where state is overturn?d; Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds, Intends our Muse to vaunt he...

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glori...

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... Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a contributor, and later was for a time i...

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...A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occu... ...le occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who continued all t... ... before. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...I lived; indeed, nothing was to be seen but waggons and carts, with goods, women, servants, children, &c.; coaches filled with people of the better so... ...; but the voice of mourners was truly heard in the streets. The shrieks of women and children at the win- dows and doors of their houses, where their ... ...cunning people propagating them, that I have often wondered there was any (women es- pecially) left behind. 20 Journal of the Plague Y ear In the fir... ..., as there did the year after an- other, a little before the fire. The old women and the phleg- matic hypochondriac part of the other sex, whom I coul...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and un...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on th...

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...Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES................................................................................ 1...

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