Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, OCTAVES: 23, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON


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First Line: To curse the chilled insistence of the dawn
Last Line: Forever from the crumbled wharves of time.
Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


Here by the windy docks I stand alone,
But yet companioned. There the vessel goes,
And there my friend goes with it; but the wake
That melts and ebbs between that friend and me
Love's earnest is of Life's all-purposeful
And all-triumphant sailing, when the ships
Of Wisdom loose their fretful chains and swing
Forever from the crumbled wharves of Time.






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