Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OCTAVES: 23, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LA RONDE DU DIABLE by AMY LOWELL WITH MERCY FOR THE GREEDY by ANNE SEXTON MARIE MIGNOT by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM ENTERTAINMENT by JOSEPH BEAUMONT A POEM FOR MAX NORDAU by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |
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