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.
courage strong prayer
Ah, when shall come love's courage to be strong! Tell me, O Lord--tell me, O Lord, how long Are we to keep Christ writhing on the cross!
beauty death causes
And we who delve in beauty's lore Know all that we have known before Of what inexorable cause Makes Time so vicious in his reaping.
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.
arlington youth seeing
Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.
lying mean long
I mean you last as long as lies.
emotional language said
Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.
love ships would-be
Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.
love men thinking
For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.
god thinking names
I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.
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