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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EVENING IN JANUARY, by AGNES LOUISE HOVDE
First Line: The marsh lay spread with newly sifted snow
Last Line: Numb with a need.
Subject(s): Winter
First Line: The marsh lay spread with newly sifted snow
Last Line: Numb with a need.
Subject(s): Winter
The marsh lay spread with newly sifted snow;
The sky sent forth no signal that the sun
Had set in that unbroken reach of grey
With afterglow.
On noiseless feathers from the whiter slope
A snowy owl swooped low to roost upon
A snow enveloped mound of meadow hay.
It was my hope
This rigid bird or some furred creature in
Survey of this white land should signify
My presence not as alien -- I might
As well have been
One of the stiffened ranks of jutting weed.
Cold to intrusion even was this hour
Of starkest winter beauty, leaving me,
Numb with a need.
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