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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DECEMBER SONNET, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Round the december heights the clouds are gray
Last Line: Fair as an angel clad in silver mail!
Subject(s): December
First Line: Round the december heights the clouds are gray
Last Line: Fair as an angel clad in silver mail!
Subject(s): December
ROUND the December heights the clouds are gray --
Gray, and wind-driven toward the stormy west,
They fly, like phantoms of malign unrest,
To fade in sombre distances away.
A flickering brightness o'er the wreck of day,
Twilight, like some sad maiden, grief-oppressed,
Broods wanly on the farthest mountain crest;
All nature breathes of darkness and decay
Now from low meadow land and drowsy stream.
From deep recesses of the silent vale,
Night-wandering vapors rise formless and chill,
When, lo! o'er shrouded wood and shadowy hill,
I mark the eve's victorious planet beam,
Fair as an angel clad in silver mail!
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