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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A STORM IN THE DISTANCE (AMONG THE GEORGIAN HILLS), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see the cloud-born squadrons of the gale Last Line: To meet the healing kisses of the sun. Subject(s): Nature; Storms | |||
I SEE the cloud-born squadrons of the gale, Their lines of rain like glittering spears deprest, While all the affrighted land grows darkly pale In flashing charge on earth's half-shielded breast. Sounds like the rush of trampling columns float From that fierce conflict; volleyed thunders peal, Blent with the maddened wind's wild bugle-note; The lightnings flash, the solid woodlands reel! Ha! many a foliaged guardian of the height, Majestic pine or chestnut, riven and bare, Falls in the rage of that aerial fight, Led by the Prince of all the Powers of air! Vast boughs like shattered banners hurtling fly Down the thick tumult: while, like emerald snow, Millions of orphaned leaves make wild the sky, Or drift in shuddering helplessness below. Still, still, the levelled lances of the rain At earth's half-shielded breast take glittering aim; All space is rife with fury, racked with pain, Earth bathed in vapor, and heaven rent by flame! At last the cloud-battalions through long rifts Of luminous mists retire: -- the strife is done, And earth once more her wounded beauty lifts, To meet the healing kisses of the sun. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...STORM AT HOPTIME by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THERE IS A SOLEMN WIND TONIGHT by KATHERINE MANSFIELD DEWEY AND DANCER by JOSEPHINE MILES MICHAEL IS AFRAID OF THE STORM by GWENDOLYN BROOKS BREACHING THE ROCK by MADELINE DEFREES THE CLOUDS ABOVE THE OCEAN by STEPHEN DOBYNS OF POLITICS, & ART by NORMAN DUBIE TREMENDOUS WIND AND RAIN by ANSELM HOLLO ASPECTS OF THE PINES by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE |
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