Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WEST WIND IN WINTER, by ALICE MEYNELL


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First Line: Another day awakes. And who
Last Line: He finds me 'twixt his wings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Wind


ANOTHER day awakes. And who --
Changing the world -- is this?
He comes at whiles, the winter through,
West Wind! I would not miss
His sudden tryst: the long, the new
Surprises of his kiss.

Vigilant, I make haste to close
With him who comes my way,
I go to meet him as he goes;
I know his note, his lay,
His colour and his morning-rose,
And I confess his day.

My window waits; at dawn I hark
His call; at morn I meet
His haste around the tossing park
And down the softened street;
The gentler light is his: the dark,
The grey -- he turns it sweet.

So too, so too, do I confess
My poet when he sings.
He rushes on my mortal guess
With his immortal things.
I feel, I know, him. On I press --
He finds me 'twixt his wings.





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