| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 46721 |
| QUOTATION: | A thousand golden sheaves were lying there,
Shining and still, but not for long to stay—
As if a thousand girls with golden hair
Might rise from where they slept and go away. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935), U.S. poet. The Sheaves (l. 11–14). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Robinson Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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