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Richard Cory

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Richard Cory
BY E DW I N A R LI NGTON ROBI NSON BY EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON

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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.
Edward Arlington Robinson was
And he was rich—yes, richer than a king— born on December 22, 1869 in
And admirably schooled in every grace: Head Tide, Maine. Although he
In fine, we thought that he was everything was one of the most prolific
To make us wish that we were in his place. American poets of the early 20th
century—and his Collected Poems
So on we worked, and waited for the light, (1921) won the first Pulitzer Prize
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread; ever awarded to poetry—he is
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, remembered now for...
Went home and put a bullet through his head. Read Full Biography

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