Edwin A. Robinson
Edwin A. Robinson
children singing
Do you hear the children singing?
singing needs
Where's the need of singing now?
heaven arlington ifs
To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.
spiritual block religion
The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.
squares may wonder
I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square.
time kings years
Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.
morning writing afternoon
This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.
tree fruit shakes
Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.
love ships would-be
Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.
women logic curse
seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.
stars heaven way
I cannot find my way: there is no star In all the shrouded heavens anywhere
knives may sometimes
Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.
wisdom book reading
I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.
wrath long dollars
Your Dollar is your only Word, / The wrath of it your only fear. / You build it altars tall enough / To make you see, but your are blind; / You cannot leave it long enough / To look before you or behind.