Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ERASMUS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he protested, not too solemnly Last Line: And they shook best who knew that he was right. Subject(s): Erasmus, Desiderius (1466-1536) | ||||||||
When he protested, not too solemnly, That for a world's achieving maintenance The crust of overdone divinity Lacked aliment, they called it recreance; And when he chose through his own glass to scan Sick Europe, and reduced, unyieldingly, The monk within the cassock to the man Within the monl, they called it heresy. And when he made so periously bold As to be scattered forth in black and white, Good fathers looked askance at him and rolled Their inward eyes in anguish and afright; There were some of them did shake at what was told, And they shook best who knew that he was right. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CLERIHEW by EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY A POEM FOR MAX NORDAU by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON AN EVANGELIST'S WIFE by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON AN ISLAND (SAINT HELENA, 1821) by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON ANOTHER DARK LADY by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON BALLADE OF DEAD FRIENDS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON CAPUT MORTUUM by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON CHARLES CARVILLE'S EYES by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON CORTEGE by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |
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