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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WILD WEATHER, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great wind sweeps Last Line: His quiet hand will lead the sunshine in. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; Victory; War | |||
A great wind sweeps Across the world, hurling to heaps Of gilded rubbish crowns and thrones, mere gleam And flicker of dry leaves in its fierce path, A wind whose very wrath Springs from white Alpine crests of thought and dream. What sword can quell An unleashed tempest, and compel Hush to the thunder, patience to the storm? The maddened blast that buffets sea and land Blows under high command, Rending and riving only to transform. May its wild wings Burst the old tanglement of things, Those withered vines and brambles that enmesh The leaping foot! May its rough flail destroy Hedges that limit joy, Leaving, like rain, a silvery earth and fresh! Faith shall not quail For broken branches of the gale. Time is a strong corrival and will win. When hurricane has done its dread behest, And forests are at rest, His quiet hand will lead the sunshine in. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...I AM YOUR WAITER TONIGHT AND MY NAME IS DIMITRI by ROBERT HASS MITRAILLIATRICE by ERNEST HEMINGWAY RIPARTO D'ASSALTO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY WAR VOYEURS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SO MANY BLOOD-LAKES by ROBINSON JEFFERS AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE FIRST VOYAGE OF JOHN CABOT [1497] by KATHARINE LEE BATES |
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