Versos English Edwin Arlington Robinson To me the groaning of world-worshippers

English poem

To me the groaning of world-worshippers

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Rings like a lonely music played in hell By one with art enough to cleave the walls Of heaven with his cadence, but without The wisdom or the will to comprehend The strangeness of his own perversity, And all without the courage to deny The profit and the pride of his defeat.