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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we can all so excellently give Last Line: The glory of eternal partnership. Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs | |||
When we can all so excellently give The measure of love's wisdom with a blow, -- Why can we not in turn receive it so, And end this murmur for the life we live? And when we do so frantically strive To win strange faith, why do we shun to know That in love's elemental over-glow God's wholeness gleams with light superlative? Oh, brother men, if you have eyes at all, Look at a branch, a bird, a child, a rose, Or anything God ever made that grows, -- Nor let the smallest vision of it slip, Till you may read, as on Belshazzar's wall, The glory of eternal partnership. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOY IN THE WOODS by CLAUDE MCKAY ELIZABETH KECKLEY: 30 YEARS A SLAVE AND 4 YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE by E. ETHELBERT MILLER EMANCIPATION by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER JOHN BROWN'S BODY by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET A POEM FOR MAX NORDAU by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |
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