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HOME: 3. FIRELIGHT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against the curtained casement wind and sleet Last Line: Diviner dreams the years shall yet fulfil. Subject(s): Home | ||||||||
Against the curtained casement wind and sleet Rattle and thresh, while snug by our own fire In dear companionship that naught may tire We sit, -- you listening, sewing in your seat, Half-dreaming in the glow of light and heat, I reading some old tale of love's desire That swept on gold wings to disaster dire Then sprang re-orient from black defeat. I close the book, and louder yet the storm Threshes without. Your busy hands are still; And on your face and hair the light is warm, As we sit gazing on the coals' red gleam In a gold glow of happiness, and dream Diviner dreams the years shall yet fulfil. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EL FLORIDA ROOM by RICHARD BLANCO DESTINATIONS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN TO THIS HOUSE by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE UPSTAIRS ROOM by WELDON KEES HOME IS SO SAD by PHILIP LARKIN DUTCH INTERIOR by DAVID LEHMAN |
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