Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WIND OF SUMMER, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY


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WIND OF SUMMER, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wind, thou hast thy kingdom in the trees
Last Line: Lavish, large, soothing, refluent summerwind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper)
Subject(s): Summer; Wind


O WIND, thou hast thy kingdom in the trees,
And all thy royalties
Sweep through the land to-day.
It is mid June,
And thou, with all thine instruments in tune,
Thine orchestra
Of heaving fields, and heavy, swinging fir,
Strikest a lay
That doth rehearse
Her ancient freedom to the universe.
All other sound in awe
Repeals its law;
The bird is mute, the sea
Sucks up its waves, from rain
The burthened clouds refrain,
To listen to thee in thy leafery,
Thou unconfined,
Lavish, large, soothing, refluent summerwind.





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