Edwin A. Robinson
Edwin A. Robinson
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.
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.
thanksgiving thankful gratitude
Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.
live-life games arlington
Life is the game that must be played.
ages power wisdom
The power is yours, but not the sight; / You see not upon what you tread; / You have the ages for your guide, / But not the wisdom to be led.
arlington cry ends
And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.
women logic curse
seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.