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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON, by EDWIN CARTY RANCK
First Line: The world is what it is, no more nor less
Last Line: And drives us forth with deft and busy broom.
Subject(s): Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935)
First Line: The world is what it is, no more nor less
Last Line: And drives us forth with deft and busy broom.
Subject(s): Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935)
The world is what it is, no more nor less;
And we who live in it and laugh or sigh
Must walk the plank while other ships go by
With men aboard in search of happiness,
Fleeing before the lash of life's duress.
And so, jeered on by pirate laughs, we die,
And raise bewildered faces to a sky
That seems to mock our haltered helplessness.
God may be in his heaven; I don't know,
But we are dust of destiny, no more.
And when the winds of passion cease to blow,
Like dust we settle down upon the floor,
And then the housemaid comes into the room
And drives us forth with deft and busy broom.
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