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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RETURN, by CLARA FOX
First Line: Late on a winter afternoon
Last Line: Are sweeter thoughts left to share.
Subject(s): Pain; Thought; Winter; Suffering; Misery; Thinking
First Line: Late on a winter afternoon
Last Line: Are sweeter thoughts left to share.
Subject(s): Pain; Thought; Winter; Suffering; Misery; Thinking
Late on a winter afternoon
When the sun was sinking all too soon,
When the wind was raw and the sun was pale
I watched a faded snowbank slowly fail.
The cold hard sunlight took its toll
With seeming innocence, the snowbank's soul.
The sun took only what it helped to give;
The snowbank, like us, wanted yet to live,
It appeared to shrink and suffer pain
At returning to the earth again.
Directly to my mind the thought was whirled:
Oh, the horror of the sadness in the world!
And yet in the dying snowbank's chilling air
Are sweeter thoughts left to share.
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