Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WINTER: EAST ANGLIA, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN


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First Line: In a frosty sunset
Last Line: And hard as winter dies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Winter; English


In a frosty sunset
So fiery red with cold
The footballers' onset
Rings out glad and bold;
Then boys from daily tether
With famous dogs at heel
In starlight meet together
And to farther hedges steal;
Where the rats are pattering
In and out the stacks,
Owls with hatred chattering
Swoop at the terriers' backs.
And, frost forgot, the chase grows hot
Till a rat's a foolish prize,
But the cornered weasel stands his ground,
Shrieks at the dogs and boys set round,
Shrieks as he knows they stand all round,
And hard as winter dies.





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