Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IF ICE, by WILLIAM WRIGHTSON EUSTACE ROSS


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First Line: If / ice shall melt
Last Line: Forest-bed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, W. W. E.
Subject(s): Ice; Spring


If
ice shall melt if
thinly the fresh
cold clear water
running shall make
grooves in the sides
of the ice;
if life return
after death,
or depart not at death,
then shall buds
burst into may-
leafing, the blooms of may
appear like stars
on the brown dry
forest-bed.





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