The Night Before: Incredible 19th Century psychological poem about a mans final hours before exectuion

Edwin Arlington Robinson was born on the 22nd December 1869 in Tide in Lincoln County, Maine.

His childhood was described by him as `stark and unhappy'. His name was drawn out of a hat from a fellow vacationer from Arlington Massachusetts when fellow holiday makers decided that his parents had waited long enough at 6 months to name him. It was a name he despised and reflects the station to which his parents had placed him; their great hope at his birth were that he was a girl to complement ...