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I	A
A HAPPY MAN	B
Carphyllides	C
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When these graven lines you see	C
Traveler do not pity me	C
Though I be among the dead	D
Let no mournful word be said	D
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Children that I leave behind	E
And their children all were kind	E
Near to them and to my wife	F
I was happy all my life	F
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My three sons I married right	G
And their sons I rocked at night	G
Death nor sorrow ever brought	H
Cause for one unhappy thought	H
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Now and with no need of tears	C
Here they leave me full of years	C
Leave me to my quiet rest	I
In the region of the blest	I
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II	A
A MIGHTY RUNNER	J
Nicarchus	C
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The day when Charmus ran with five	K
In Arcady as I'm alive	K
He came in seventh Five and one	L
Make seven you say It can't be done	L
Well if you think it needs a note	M
A friend in a fur overcoat	M
Ran with him crying all the while	N
You'll beat 'em Charmus by a mile	N
And so he came in seventh	O
Therefore good Zoilus you see	C
The thing is plain as plain can be	C
And with four more for company	C
He would have been eleventh	O
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III	A
THE RAVEN	L
Nicarchus	C
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The gloom of death is on the raven's wing	P
The song of death is in the raven's cries	C
But when Demophilus begins to sing	P
The raven dies	C
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IV	K
EUTYCHIDES	C
Lucilius	C
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Eutychides who wrote the songs	C
Is going down where he belongs	C
O you unhappy ones beware	Q
Eutychides will soon be there	Q
For he is coming with twelve lyres	C
And with more than twice twelve quires	C
Of the stuff that he has done	L
In the world from which he's gone	R
Ah now must you know death indeed	S
For he is coming with all speed	S
And with Eutychides in Hell	T
Where's a poor tortured soul to dwell	T
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V	K
DORICHA	U
Posidippus	C
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So now the very bones of you are gone	R
Where they were dust and ashes long ago	V
And there was the last ribbon you tied on	W
To bind your hair and that is dust also	V
And somewhere there is dust that was of old	X
A soft and scented garment that you wore	Y
The same that once till dawn did closely fold	X
You in with fair Charaxus fair no more	Y
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But Sappho and the white leaves of her song	Z
Will make your name a word for all to learn	A2
And all to love thereafter even while	N
It's but a name and this will be as long	Z
As there are distant ships that will return	A2
Again to your Naucratis and the Nile	N
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VI	K
THE DUST OF TIMAS	V
Sappho	B2
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This dust was Timas and they say	V
That almost on her wedding day	V
She found her bridal home to be	K
The dark house of Persephone	A2
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And many maidens knowing then	A2
That she would not come back again	A2
Unbound their curls and all in tears	V
They cut them off with sharpened shears	V
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VII	K
ARETEMIAS	V
Antipater of Sidon	A2
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I'm sure I see it all now as it was	V
When first you set your foot upon the shore	Y
Where dim Cocytus flows for evermore	Y
And how it came to pass	V
That all those Dorian women who are there	Q
In Hades and still fair	Q
Came up to you so young and wept and smiled	C2
When they beheld you and your little child	C2
And then I'm sure with tears upon your face	V
To be in that sad place	V
You told of the two children you had borne	A2
And then of Euphron whom you leave to mourn	A2
One stays with him you said	D
And this one I bring with me to the dead	D
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VIII	K
THE OLD STORY	K
Marcus Argentarius	V
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Like many a one when you had gold	X
Love met you smiling we are told	X
But now that all your gold is gone	A2
Love leaves you hungry and alone	A2
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And women who have called you more	Y
Sweet names than ever were before	Y
Will ask another now to tell	T
What man you are and where you dwell	T
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Was ever anyone but you	D2
So long in learning what is true	D2
Must you find only at the end	E2
That who has nothing has no friend	E2
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IX	V
TO MORROW	V
Macedonius	V
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To morrow Then your one word left is always now the same	F2
And that's a word that names a day that has no more a name	F2
To morrow I have learned at last is all you have to give	K
The rest will be another's now as long as I may live	K
You will see me in the evening And what evening has there been	A2
Since time began with women but old age and wrinkled skin	A2
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X	V
LAIS TO APHRODITE	K
Plato	V
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When I poor Lais with my crown	A2
Of beauty could laugh Hellas down	A2
Young lovers crowded at my door	Y
Where now my lovers come no more	Y
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So Goddess you will not refuse	V
A mirror that has now no use	V
For what I was I cannot be	K
And what I am I will not see	K
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XI	K
AN INSCRIPTION BY THE SEA	K
Glaucus	K
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No dust have I to cover me	K
My grave no man may show	V
My tomb is this unending sea	K
And I lie far below	V
My fate O stranger was to drown	A2
And where it was the ship went down	A2
Is what the sea birds know	V

Edwin Arlington Robinson

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