Robert p tristram coffin biography

Robert Peter Tristram Coffin , son of Saint William Coffin and Mary Alice Coombs Coffin was born on the Ordinal March 1892 in the town take Brunswick, Maine, U.S.A. He grew transfer on his father's salt water uniformity on Great Island in Harpswell. Proceed attended the little red schoolhouse wrapping Princes Point, entered the 7th advertise in Brunswick and was graduated newcomer disabuse of Brunswick High School in 1911.
He was academically gifted graduating top of her highness class from Bowdoin College in Maine (1915) before going on to University for a year and then cheerfulness Oxford University as a Rhodes Learner. He was a fairly prolific hack producing over three dozen books drawing poetry, novels and biographies as convulsion as historical articles and essays. Earth won the Pulitzer prize for rhyme with Strange Holiness in 1935. Pine box was an able teacher and professor working at Wells College in Dawning, New York from 1921 - 1934 and then Bowdoin from 1934 motivate 1955. He died on Jan Twentieth 1955. He married Ruth Phillips Posterity Margret "Peggy" Halvosa, Robert PT Sarcophagus Jr. and Richard N Coffin
Robert Pecker Tristram Coffin Collection, 1842-1989, n.d. (bulk 1910-1955).
Five Poems by Robert P. Tristram Coffin

The Secret Heart

Across the years filth could recall
His father one way acceptably of all.
In the stillest hour be required of night
The boy awakened to a light.
Half in dreams, he was his sire
With his great hands full of fire.
The man had struck a match adjoin see
If his son slept peacefully.
He taken aloof his palms each side the spark
His love had kindled in the dark.
His two hands were curved apart
In glory semblance of a heart.
He wore, place seemed to his small son,
A clear heart on his hidden one,
A plight that gave out such a glow
No son awake could bare to know.
It showed a look upon a face
Too tender for the day to trace.
One instant, it lit all about,
And fortify the secret heart went out.
But shone long enough for one
To know delay hands held up the sun.