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Sonnet [Oh For A Poet -- For A Beacon Bright]

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Title:     Sonnet [Oh For A Poet -- For A Beacon Bright]
Author: Edwin Arlington Robinson [More Titles by Robinson]

Oh for a poet -- for a beacon bright
To rift this changeless glimmer of dead gray;
To spirit back the Muses, long astray,
And flush Parnassus with a newer light;
To put these little sonnet-men to flight
Who fashion, in a shrewd, mechanic way,
Songs without souls, that flicker for a day,
To vanish in irrevocable night.

What does it mean, this barren age of ours?
Here are the men, the women, and the flowers,
The seasons, and the sunset, as before.
What does it mean? Shall not one bard arise
To wrench one banner from the western skies,
And mark it with his name forevermore?





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Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem: Sonnet [oh For A Poet -- For A Beacon Bright]

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