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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A WINTER NIGHT, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poet's Biography First Line: The winter wind is raving fierce and shrill Last Line: Till wake the sleeping summers in thy smile. | |||
THE winter wind is raving fierce and shrill And chides with angry moan the frosty skies, The white stars gaze with sleepless Gorgon eyes That freeze the earth in terror fixed and still. We reck not of the wild night's gloom and chill, Housed from its rage, dear friend; and fancy flies, Lured by the hand of beckoning memories, Back to those summer evenings on the hill Where we together watched the sun go down Beyond the gold-washed uplands, while his fires Touched into glittering life the vanes and spires Piercing the purpling mists that veiled the town. The wintry night thy voice and eyes beguile, Till wake the sleeping summers in thy smile. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JIM BLUDSO [OF THE PRAIRIE BELLE] by JOHN MILTON HAY MILES KEOGH'S HORSE by JOHN MILTON HAY RELIGION AND DOCTRINE by JOHN MILTON HAY THE STIRRUP-CUP by JOHN MILTON HAY A DREAM OF BRIC-A-BRAC by JOHN MILTON HAY A HAUNTED ROOM by JOHN MILTON HAY A PHYLACTERY by JOHN MILTON HAY |
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