Still westward with the lessening light ye go, Dejected people, and the forests tall, Bewidowed of their dusky children, fall Behind you with an echoing wail of woe. Year after year the warrior winds lay low The leafy tribes, and with prophetic call Denounce the silent massacre of all Before the pale usurper's conquering bow. Heed ye the signs? or look your longing eyes Beyond the winter, where the selfsame voice, Warm with the breath of unawakened flowers, Comes softly singing to the world, "Rejoice! The snow is gone: and with the April showers Each buried seed is hastening to rise!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS ON A THEME: ROMANCE by EDITH SITWELL A VALENTINE TO SHERWOOD ANDERSON by GERTRUDE STEIN NOEL: CHRISTMAS EVE, 1913 by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES DICK, A MAGGOT by JONATHAN SWIFT THESE ENDURE by MARION H. ADDINGTON FROM A YOUNG WOMAN TO AN OLD OFFICER WHO COURTED HER by ELIZABETH FRANCES AMHERST PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 47. AL-HAKIM by EDWIN ARNOLD SONNET: 8 by RICHARD BARNFIELD THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 68. THE THREE AGES OF WOMAN: 3 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |