Luke Havergral

Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal,

There where the vines cling crimson on the wall,

And in the twilight wait for what will come.

The leaves will whisper there of her, and some,

Like flying words, will strike you as they fall;

But go, and if you listen she will call.

Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal—

Luke Havergal.

No, there is not a dawn in eastern skies

To rift the fiery night that’s in your eyes;

But there, where western glooms are gathering,

The dark will end the dark, if anything:

God slays Himself with every leaf that flies,

And hell is more than half of paradise.

No, there is not a dawn in eastern skies—

In eastern skies.

Out of a grave I come to tell you this,

Out of a grave I come to quench the kiss

That flames upon your forehead with a glow

That blinds you to the way that you must go.

Yes, there is yet one way to where she is,

Bitter, but one that faith may never miss.

Out of a grave I come to tell you this—

To tell you this.

There is the western gate, Luke Havergal,

There are the crimson leaves upon the wall.

Go, for the winds are tearing them away,—

Nor think to riddle the dead words they say,

Nor any more to feel them as they fall;

But go, and if you trust her she will call.

There is the western gate, Luke Havergal—

Luke Havergal.

In a world of rhythmic romanticism, Edward drew most a lot of inspiration
from motifs presented in the works of Robert Frost, as well as Edgar Lee
Masters. He used Frost's gift of bending meter to create vivid, vernacular
speech, while at the same time creating resplendent images with Masters'
approach to breach the human psychology. Robinson's style was adored by
Teddy Roosevelt, among others, for his catchy contemporary tone. He found
that drawing from his personal views of human behavior led to the
generation of wholly original works that everybody could relate to.

Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poem Luke Havergal is a dark love poem that is a

close to a sequel to Robinson’s poem the Winds Are Tearing Them Away. Luke

Havergal has a dark and depressing tone to it since it covers the topic of

a man debating to comic suicide to be with his lover in hell. Though

Robinson’s poem uses a mournful rhythm it was a poem that caught the

attention of President Theodore Roosevelt. President Roosevelt adored Luke

Havergal so much that he gave Robinson a job as a clerk in New York, which

is what finally, helped Robinson start his career. Not only that but

President Roosevelt wrote a review on The Children of the Night, which

featured Luke Havergal, to the public that made Robinson a best selling

author. It is very well that Robinson was inspired by the 19th century and

did not follow the rest of the 20th century writers. Robinson’s inspiration

is said to be Thomas Hardy’s romanticism and the naturalism of Emile Zola,

which we see reoccurring in his other poems.

Robert Frost

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