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In reply to the discussion: What's your favorite poem? [View all]IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)67. Richard Cory
Richard Cory
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.
And he was rich yes, richer than a king
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
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Do you know that you can sing "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" to the tune of
Fortinbras Armstrong
Sep 2015
#27
As a former English teacher, I've got a bunch! "My Last Duchess"; "Ozymandias"; "Mother to Son";
WinkyDink
Sep 2015
#28
A few years back, Don Draper reading Mayakovsky by Frank O'Hara put the hook in me
Joe Shlabotnik
Sep 2015
#38
Now that I am on the wrong side of 65, I have come to understand Theodore Roethke's "Infirmity"
Fortinbras Armstrong
Sep 2015
#43