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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CLERKS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not think that I should find them there Last Line: Clipping the same sad alnage of the years. Subject(s): Office Employees; Clerks | |||
I DID not think that I should find them there When I came back again; but there they stood, As in the days they dreamed of when young blood Was in their cheeks and women called them fair. Be sure, they met me with an ancient air, -- And, yes, there was a shop-worn brother-hood About them; but the men were just as good, And just as human as they ever were. And you that ache so much to be sublime, And you that feed yourselves with your descent, What comes of all your visions and your fears? Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OFFICE POLITICS by WANDA COLEMAN WHITE, WHITE COLLARS by DENIS JOHNSON A DEATH AT THE OFFICE by TED KOOSER OFFICE PARTY: DISTAFF VIEW by KAREN SWENSON THIRTY BOB A WEEK by JOHN DAVIDSON THE CLERK by SCUDDER MIDDLETON IN RE ALFRED EMERY CATHIE by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY A POEM FOR MAX NORDAU by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |
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