Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DECEMBER IN ARNOLD WOOD, by MERRILL MOORE


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DECEMBER IN ARNOLD WOOD, by                    
First Line: Now arnold wood lies white with snow
Last Line: Out all the things to say.
Subject(s): Snow; Winter


Now Arnold Wood lies white with snow
Where Arnold Wood lay green,
And from the north the four winds blow
Along the winter scene,
And I still walk where we both walked
Together last in May,
But I am silent where we talked
Out all the things to say.

On every side I see spots
Where we would stop to rest,
The thickest, greenest, coolest plots
Where the pasture grass sprung best,
And now these tufts are covered thick
With a wintry weight of white
And the gray field-mouse and the partidge-chick
Are hid beneath from sight.

And men have come since we were here
And hauled away the stone
Of that low rock wall over there
You once called as your own
When we would lean and watch the moon
Rise while the huge sun set,
When midnight came on all too soon
For those that loved as yet.

Now Arnold Wood lies white with snow
Where Arnold Wood lay green,
And from the north the four winds blow
Along the winter scene,
And I still walk where we both walked
Together last in May,
But I am silent where we talked
Out all the things to say.





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