Social Commentaries

Boston

by Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869–1935

From The Children of the Night (1897)

Social Commentaries

My northern pines are good enough for me,
But there's a town my memory uprears --
A town that always like a friend appears,
And always in the sunrise by the sea.
And over it, somehow, there seems to be
A downward flash of something new and fierce,
That ever strives to clear, but never clears
The dimness of a charmed antiquity.

MLA

Robinson, Edwin Arlington. “Boston.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/robinson_ea/29/.

Chicago

Robinson, Edwin Arlington. “Boston.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/robinson_ea/29/.

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