Richard Cory
Edwin Arlington Robinson
1869 to 1935
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To make us wish that we were in his place.
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
And admirably schooled in every grace:
And he was rich—yes, richer than a king—
In fine, we thought that he was everything
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
We people on the pavement looked at him:
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