Children of the night : a book of poems / Edwin Arlington Robinson [electronic text]
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Children of the night : a book of poems / Edwin Arlington Robinson [electronic text]
Author
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
1905
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CHARLES CARVILLE'S EYES
A MELANCHOLY face Charles Carville had,But not so melancholy as it seemed, —When once you knew him, — for his mouth redeemedHis insufficient eyes, forever sad:In them there was no life-glimpse, good or bad, — Nor joy nor passion in them ever gleamed;His mouth was all of him that ever beamed,His eyes were sorry, but his mouth was glad.
He never was a fellow that said much,And half of what he did say was not heardBy many of us: we were out of touchWith all his whims and all his theoriesTill he was dead, so those blank eyes of hisMight speak them. Then we heard them, every word.
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