Tag Archives: E. A. Robinson

Let Us Sail into the Promise of the Day

By Robin Bates | Published: October 12, 2019

E. A. Robinson’s “Children of the Night” finds spiritual hope in a dark world.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Children of the Night", Alfred Lord Tennyson, Doubt, Faith, In Memoriam | Comments closed

Poetic Excuses for Losing at Tennis

By Robin Bates | Published: March 16, 2013

Between the motion and the act of my tennis game falls the shadow. Translation: too much thinking.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Hollow Men", "Minniver Cheevy", Hamlet, Marshall McLuhan, Sports, T. S. Eliot, tennis, William Gladwell, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Poetry in a Time of Mourning

By Robin Bates | Published: October 5, 2012

Poetry by E. A. Robinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay played a key role in my cousin’s memorial service.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "I burn my candle at both ends", "L'Envoi", "Luke Havergal", "Minniver Cheevy", Ballad of the Beanetown Bosox, Daniel Bates, death and dying, Edna St. Vincent Millay | Comments closed