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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
UPON THE WINDS OF SPRING, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poet's Biography
First Line: I feel the terror in the world tonight
Last Line: Pain stabs my heart and binds the wound with fear!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; Spring; World War I; Dead, The; First World War
First Line: I feel the terror in the world tonight
Last Line: Pain stabs my heart and binds the wound with fear!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; Spring; World War I; Dead, The; First World War
I feel the terror in the world tonight—
Unbridled lust of power, and bridled lust
More cold but no less merciless. The dust
Of perished legions drifts upon the bright
And tender winds of spring, a seal, blood-red,
Upon man's last insanity. Surcease
Of war? Ah, so they thought! To purchase peace
For aye, with their young blood! Ah, so they said!
But peace is not upon the winds of spring.
The nostrils of new wars flare wide, and sniff
The dust of heroes greedily, and fling
An evil breath upon the world—and if
I chance to laugh because the spring is here,
Pain stabs my heart and binds the wound with fear!
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