Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WINTER, by RUTH CURTIS DOUGLAS


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WINTER, by                    
First Line: A calm, pure beauty fills a winter day
Last Line: That lifts the soul and sets the heart at ease.
Subject(s): Winter


A calm, pure beauty fills a winter day,
From opal-tinted dawn, until the west
Is flushed with rose as the sun sinks to rest;
And sinking sends his last, bright, level ray
Across the fields, letting it softly play,
Upon a snowy hill with wooded crest.
A dark-robed nun, hands folded on her breast,
Kneeling in some still, vaulted church to pray.
Summer beguiles with beauty warm and bright,
The perfume of the rose the hum of bees,
Riot of colors pleasing to the sight,
Music of birds among the leafy trees;
But winter loveliness brings calm delight
That lifts the soul and sets the heart at ease.





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