Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AS IT LOOKED THEN, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a sick shade of spruce, moss-webbed, rock-fed Last Line: Arching a world where nothing had occurred. | ||||||||
In a sick shade of spruce, moss-webbed, rock-fed, Where, long unfollowed by sagacious man, A scrub that once had been a pathway ran Blindly from nowhere and to nowhere led, One might as well have been among the dead As half way there alive; so I began Like a malingering pioneer to plan A vain return -- with one last look ahead. And it was then that like a spoken word Where there was none to speak, insensibly A flash of blue that might have been a bird Grew soon to the calm wonder of the sea -- Calm as a quiet sky that looked to be Arching a world where nothing had occurred. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...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 DEMOS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON DOCTOR OF BILLIARDS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON ERASMUS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |
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