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SONG by RUPERT BROOKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: ALL SUDDENLY THE WIND COMES SOFT
Last Line: AND MY HEART PUTS FORTH ITS PAIN.
Subject(s): LOVE; SOLDIERS' WRITINGS;
All suddenly the wind comes soft,
And Spring is here again;
And the hawthorn quickens with buds of green,
And my heart with buds of pain.

My heart all Winter lay so numb,
The earth so dead and frore,
That I never thought the Spring would come,
Or my heart wake any more.

But Winter's broken and earth has woken,
And the small birds cry again;
And the hawthorn hedge puts forth its buds,
And my heart puts forth its pain.





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