On her fifth birthday
You Eyes, you large and all-inquiring Eyes,
That look so dubiously into me,
And are not satisfied with what you see,
Tell me the worst and let us have no lies:
Tell me the meaning of your scrutinies.
And of myself. Am I a Mystery?
Am I a Boojum-or just Company?
What do you say? What do you think, You Eyes?
You say not; but you think, beyond a doubt;
And you have the whole world to think about,
With very little time for little things.
So let it be; and let it all be fair-
For you, and for the rest who cannot share
Your gold of unrevealed awakenings.
For Arvia
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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Consuelo Chronis : This was the first English language poem I really liked. There is something marvelous about addressing "You, eyes" so that the writer is addressing the little girl in a novel way and I imagine the young child and can relate to the way in which children sometimes observe adults musing but not telling. There is a whole world of beautiful possibilities in this poems lines.
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