Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE STORM, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the pale blue haze above Last Line: Brought thither from the blossom'd limes. Subject(s): Love; Storms | ||||||||
WITHIN the pale blue haze above, Some pitchy shreds took size and form And, like a madman's wrath or love, From nothing rose a sudden storm. The blossom'd limes, which seem'd to exhale Her breath, were swept with one strong sweep, And up the dusty road the hail Came like a flock of hasty sheep, Driving me under a cottage-porch, Whence I could see the distant Spire, Which, in the darkness, seem'd a torch Touch'd with the sun's retreating fire. A voice, so sweet that even her voice, I thought, could scarcely be more sweet, As thus I stay'd against my choice, Did mine attracted hearing greet; And presently I turn'd my head Where the kind music seem'd to be, And where, to an old blind man, she read The words that teach the blind to see. She did not mark me; swift I went, Thro' the fierce shower's whistle and smoke, To her home, and thence her woman sent Back with umbrella, shoes and cloak. The storm soon pass'd; the sun's quick glare Lay quench'd in vapour fleecy, fray'd; And all the moist, delicious air Was fill'd with shine that cast no shade; And, when she came, forth the sun gleam'd, And clash'd the trembling Minster chimes; And the breath with which she thank'd me seem'd Brought thither from the blossom'd limes. | 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 A LONDON FETE by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE |
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