| Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935). Collected Poems. 1921. |
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| VIII. Avon’s Harvest, Etc. |
| 4. The Tree in Pamela’s Garden |
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| PAMELA was too gentle to deceive | |
| Her roses. “Let the men stay where they are,” | |
| She said, “and if Apollo’s avatar | |
| Be one of them, I shall not have to grieve.” | |
| And so she made all Tilbury Town believe | 5 |
| She sighed a little more for the North Star | |
| Than over men, and only in so far | |
| As she was in a garden was like Eve. | |
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| Her neighbors—doing all that neighbors can | |
| To make romance of reticence meanwhile— | 10 |
| Seeing that she had never loved a man, | |
| Wished Pamela had a cat, or a small bird, | |
| And only would have wondered at her smile | |
| Could they have seen that she had overheard. | |
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