Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WIND AT FIDENAE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh from the sabines Last Line: Bloweth the wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Heaven; Rome, Italy; Wind; Paradise | ||||||||
Fresh from the Sabines, The Beautiful Hills, The wind bloweth. Down o'er the slopes, Where the olives whiten As though the feet Of the wind were snow-clad: Out o'er the plain Where a paradise Of wild blooms waveth, And where, in the sunswept Leagues of azure, A thousand larks are As a thousand founts 'Mid the perfect joy of The depth of heaven. Swift o'er the heights, And over the valleys Where the grey oxen sleepily stand, Down, like a wild hawk swooping earthward, Over the winding reaches of Tiber, Bloweth the wind! How the wind bloweth, Here on the steeps of Ancient Fidenae, Where no voice soundeth Now, save the shepherd Calling his sheep; And where none wander But only the cloud-shadows, Vague ghosts of the past. Sweet and fresh from the Sabines, Now as of yore, When Etruscan maidens Laughed as their lovers Mocked the damsels Of alien Rome, Sweet with the same young breath o' the world Bloweth the wind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE END OF LIFE by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 6 by CONRAD AIKEN THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER by MARVIN BELL THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A SKELETON FOR MR. PAUL IN PARADISE; AFTER ALLAN GUISINGER by NORMAN DUBIE BEAUTY & RESTRAINT by DANIEL HALPERN HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN by DORIANNE LAUX |
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