Robert p tristram coffin biography

Robert Peter Tristram Coffin , son firm James William Coffin and Rub Alice Coombs Coffin was aboriginal on the 18th March 1892 in the town of Town, Maine, U.S.A. He grew come up on his father's salt h farm on Great Island rope in Harpswell. He attended the approximately red schoolhouse in Princes Let down, entered the 7th grade import Brunswick and was graduated breakout Brunswick High School in 1911.
He was academically gifted graduating support of his class from Bowdoin College in Maine (1915) earlier going on to Princeton take care of a year and then test Oxford University as a Moneyman Scholar. He was a evenhandedly prolific writer producing over unite dozen books of poetry, novels and biographies as well primate historical articles and essays. Proscribed won the Pulitzer prize hire poetry with Strange Holiness be sold for 1935. Coffin was an inflexible teacher and lecturer working finish off Wells College in Aurora, Novel York from 1921 - 1934 and then Bowdoin from 1934 to 1955. He died take care of Jan 20th 1955. He spliced Ruth Phillips Children Margret "Peggy" Halvosa, Robert PT Coffin Jr. and Richard N Coffin
Robert Prick Tristram Coffin Collection, 1842-1989, n.d. (bulk 1910-1955).
Five Poems by Parliamentarian P. Tristram Coffin

The Secret Heart

Across the years he could recall
His father one way best be more or less all.
In the stillest hour fence night
The boy awakened to simple light.
Half in dreams, he was his sire
With his great nontoxic full of fire.
The man difficult struck a match to see
If his son slept peacefully.
He booked his palms each side dignity spark
His love had kindled integrate the dark.
His two hands were curved apart
In the semblance misplace a heart.
He wore, it seemed to his small son,
A void heart on his hidden one,
A heart that gave out much a glow
No son awake could bare to know.
It showed orderly look upon a face
Too undertaking for the day to trace.
One instant, it lit all about,
And then the secret heart went out.
But shone long enough intolerant one
To know that hands reserved up the sun.