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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
YOUTH. A SONNET SEQUENCE: IN WINTER, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poet's Biography
First Line: Always before, the clear unbroken snow
Last Line: For untracked snow along some city way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Winter
First Line: Always before, the clear unbroken snow
Last Line: For untracked snow along some city way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Winter
ALWAYS before, the clear unbroken snow
Lay from our doorway to the riverside
Trackless and plain. Our feet had never tried
The depth of it. We never sought to go
Out to the water, where its narrow flow
Wound off among tall hemlocks, bent to hide
The upper valley meadows with their wide
Branches snowed down, and young trees leaning low.
Strange that we never broke the snow, my friend,
But sought our fire, and books, and day by day
Watched at a distance through the window-pane;
And never knew that there would come an end
To watching, or that eyes would seek in vain
For untracked snow along some city way.
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