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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GLASS HOUSES, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Learn if you must, but do not come to me
Last Line: That we may not be here a thousand years.
Subject(s): Neighbors
First Line: Learn if you must, but do not come to me
Last Line: That we may not be here a thousand years.
Subject(s): Neighbors
Learn if you must, but do not come to me
For truth of what your pleasant neighbor says
Behind you of your looks or of your ways,
Or of your worth and virtue generally;
If he's a pleasure to you, let him be --
Being the same to him; and let your days
Be tranquil, having each the other's praise,
And each his own opinion peaceably.
Two brothers once did love each other well,
Yet not so well but that a pungent word
From each came stinging home to the wrong ears.
The rest would be an overflow to tell,
Surely; and you may slowly have inferred
That we may not be here a thousand years.
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