Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WRITTEN DURING A STORM OF WIND, by SUSAN EVANCE


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WRITTEN DURING A STORM OF WIND, by                    
First Line: Cease your desolating sound
Last Line: —winds, in pity blow no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hooper, Susan Evance
Subject(s): Storms; Wind


Cease your desolating sound,
O ye furious winds! forbear—
Every gust that swells around
Chills my shuddering heart with fear.

Ah! the thoughtless time is past
When I mark'd the rapid flight
Of each wildly rushing blast,
With romantic gay delight.

When in sportive frolic dance,
With the gale I skimm'd the plain,
Or would breathlessly advance,
Laughing at its fury vain.

Often too, in graver mood,
I have heard the tempest roll,
While a joy sublimely rude
Has possess'd and charm'd my soul.

But I cannot listen now
To the wild, the dreadful sound;
Sad I see the forest bow,
Mournful mark its groans around.

Fanciful I seem to hear
Ocean roaring in the storm:
And behold the bark appear,
Which contains a Brother's form.

Hope had pictur'd scenes of joy
When he reach'd his native shore—
Should the tempest these destroy!
—Winds, in pity blow no more.





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