| Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935). Collected Poems. 1921. |
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| V. The Town Down the River |
| 14. Leonora |
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| THEY have made for Leonora this low dwelling in the ground, | |
| And with cedar they have woven the four walls round. | |
| Like a little dryad hiding she’ll be wrapped all in green, | |
| Better kept and longer valued than by ways that would have been. | |
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| They will come with many roses in the early afternoon, | 5 |
| They will come with pinks and lilies and with Leonora soon; | |
| And as long as beauty’s garments over beauty’s limbs are thrown, | |
| There’ll be lilies that are liars, and the rose will have its own. | |
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| There will be a wondrous quiet in the house that they have made, | |
| And to-night will be a darkness in the place where she’ll be laid; | 10 |
| But the builders, looking forward into time, could only see | |
| Darker nights for Leonora than to-night shall ever be. | |
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