Arlo Bates
Best-known poems
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The Watchers
We must be nobler for our dead, be sure,
Than for the quick. We might their living eyes
Deceive with gloss of seeming; but all lies …
All poems (9)
- A Winter TwilightPale beryl sky, with clouds
- AmericaFor, o America, our country!—land
- ConceitsI
- In Paradise“o pitying angel, pause, and say
- Like to a CoinLike to a coin, passing from hand to hand,
- On the Road to ChorreraThree horsemen galloped the dusty way
- The CyclamenOver the plains where Persian hosts
- The WatchersWe must be nobler for our dead, be sure,
- “There is such power”From “Sonnets in Shadow”