Who is Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (September 27, 1861 – February 17, 1933) was an American poet, writer and lecturer. She was also the younger sister of former President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt and an aunt of future First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Early years

Corinne Roosevelt was born on September 27, 1861, at 28 East 20th Street in New York City, the fourth and youngest child of businessman/philanthropist Theodore "Thee" Roosevelt Sr. and socialite Martha Stewart "Mittie" Bulloch. Her siblings were Anna (called "Bamie" or "Bye"), Theodore Jr. (who became president), and Elliott (the father of future First Lady of the United States Anna Eleanor Roosevelt). As an Oyster Bay Roosevelt Corinne was a descendant of the Schuyler family. Sh...
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Corinne Roosevelt Robinson Poems

• Which
  We ask that Love shall rise to the divine,
  And yet we crave him very human, too;
  Our hearts would drain the crimson of his wine,
  Our souls despise him if he prove untrue!...
• The Path That Leads To Nowhere
  There's a path that leads to Nowhere
  In a meadow that I know,
  Where an inland island rises
  And the stream is still and slow;...

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Corinne Roosevelt Robinson Quotes

• Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

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• Ancientwisdomhq: "is life worth living?/ aye, with the best of us,/ heights of us, depths of us - / life is the test of us!" - corinne roosevelt robinson

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