The Dark Hills by Edwin Arlington Robinson

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend August 9, 2015   The Dark Hills   Edwin Arlington Robinson

Dark hills at evening in the west, Where sunset hovers like a sound Of golden horns that sang to rest Old bones of warriors under ground, Far now from all the bannered ways Where flash the legions of the sun, You fade—as if the last of days Were fading, and all wars were done.            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   “The Dark Hills” was published in The Three Taverns: A Book of Poems (The Macmillan Company, 1920).   Edwin Arlington Robinson was born in Maine in 1869. He won the Pulitzer Prize three times for Collected Poems (1921), The Man Who Died Twice (1924), and Tristram (1927). Robinson died in New York City in 1935. Poetry by Robinson   Robinson: Poems (Everyman’s Library, 2007) "One Way or Another" by Naomi Shihab Nye "Sometimes with One I Love" by Walt Whitman "Dream Song 1" by John Berryman Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038