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The Gift of God - -- Edwin Arlington Robinson

Guest poem sent in by Rajeev
(Poem #300) The Gift of God -
  Blessed with a joy that only she
  Of all alive shall ever know,
  She wears a proud humility
  For what it was that willed it so -
  That her degree should be so great
  Among the favoured of the Lord
  That she may scarcely bear the weight
  Of her bewildering reward.

  As one apart, immune, alone,
  Or featured for the shining ones,
  And like to none that she has known
  Of other women's other sons -
  The firm fruition of her need,
  He shines anointed; and he blurs
  Her vision, till it seems indeed
  A sacrilege to call him hers.

  She fears a little for so much
  Of what is best, and hardly dares
  To think of him as one to touch
  With aches, indignities, and cares;
  She sees him rather at the goal,
  Still shining; and her dream foretells
  The proper shining of a soul
  Where nothing ordinary dwells.

  Perchance a canvass of the town
  Would find him far from flags and shouts,
  And leave him only the renown
  Of many smiles and many doubts;
  Perchance the crude and common tongue
  Would havoc strangely with his worth;
  But she, with innocence unwrung,
  Would read his name around the earth.

  And others, knowing how this youth
  Would shine, if love could make him great,
  When caught and tortured for the truth
  Would only writhe and hesitate;
  While she, arranging for his days
  What centuries could not fulfil,
  Transmutes him with her faith and praise,
  And has him shining where she will.

  She crowns him with her gratefulness,
  And says again that life is good;
  And should the gift of God be less
  In him than in her motherhood,
  His fame, though vague, will not be small
  As upward through her dream he fares,
  Half clouded with a crimson fall
  Of roses thrown on marble stairs.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson
I came across this in a random search for American poets. The site url is
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/authors/robnea.html
Immediate reaction on reading this was to send it to my mother. That, I
suppose, says it all.
I have no comments on the construction of the poem - I don't know that much.
But I've always read poetry because of the element of music attached
(sing-song, if you will)
- and this one has its own music.

Rajeev

PS - My mother loves it!!

[biography]
Edwin Arlington Robinson was born on Dec. 22, 1869, at Head Tide in Maine
and until 1897 lived at the family home in Gardiner, Maine, aside from
several years as a student at Harvard University. For the rest of his life
he moved in New York and devoted his life to writing poetry. Robinson earned
a small living first as a subway inspector and then in the city's customs
office. He resided in rooms at boarding houses in New York and Yonkers, at
the Hotel Judson on Washington Square, in Brooklyn at 810 Washington Ave.,
and at last on West 42nd Street. His Collected Poems in 1922 received the
Pulitzer Prize and earned him a degree as Doctor of Literature at Yale
University. Although best known for his short poems, long poems such as
Captain Craig (1902), Lancelot (1920), The Man Who Died Twice (1924), and
Tristram (1927) earned him acclaim from his peers. The last two of these won
Pulitzer Prizes in 1925 and 1927, when he was elected as a member of the
National Academy of Arts and Letters. Robinson never married but enjoyed the
company of many friends. He died of cancer in hospital in New York on April
6, 1935.

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