Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR THE NIGHT TO WEAR, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER First Line: For the twilight, the wet snow Last Line: The polar wind. Subject(s): Snow; Wind; Winter | ||||||||
For the twilight, the wet snow, Heaped on the branch, The soft white blurring with solids All angles and edges. But the dry snow, Granular, Sand out of space, Jewel cut, Is for the night to wear. Polished aloft in the metaphysical tides That swirl between stars, Its meanings are other Than the frozen rain of a low cloud. Orion's belt, hung in the fork Of the stripped beech Is kin to this snow, Restless on eaves and fence-rails, Fanned like the plume of Everest, To make visible The polar wind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOOKING EAST IN THE WINTER by JOHN HOLLANDER WINTER DISTANCES by FANNY HOWE WINTER FORECAST by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN AT WINTER'S EDGE by JUDY JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 34 by JAMES JOYCE 800,000 VIBRATIONS TO THE SECOND by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER |
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