Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUMMER'S OVERTHROW, by WILLIAM WATSON


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First Line: Summer is fallen, is conquered, her greatness
Last Line: Then, sinking, shook on the world her golden ruins, and died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Summer


SUMMER is fallen, is conquered, her greatness ravished away.
We saw her broken with tempest on cliffs of the Irish shore;
We saw her flee like the wraith of a monstrous rose, before
The airy invisible hunters that hunted her night and day.
And once we believed them frustrate, believed them reft of their prey,
For she suddenly flashed anew into violent splendour, defied
The yelling pack of the storm, and turned, and held them at bay.
In superb despair she faced them, she towered like June once more, --
Then, sinking, shook on the world her golden ruins, and died.





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