| Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935). Collected Poems. 1921. |
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| VII. The Three Taverns |
| 19. Firelight |
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| TEN years together without yet a cloud, | |
| They seek each other’s eyes at intervals | |
| Of gratefulness to firelight and four walls | |
| For love’s obliteration of the crowd. | |
| Serenely and perennially endowed | 5 |
| And bowered as few may be, their joy recalls | |
| No snake, no sword; and over them there falls | |
| The blessing of what neither says aloud. | |
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| Wiser for silence, they were not so glad | |
| Were she to read the graven tale of lines | 10 |
| On the wan face of one somewhere alone; | |
| Nor were they more content could he have had | |
| Her thoughts a moment since of one who shines | |
| Apart, and would be hers if he had known. | |
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