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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINTER: 2. SNOW-STORM, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poet's Biography
First Line: How gloom the clouds! Quite stifled is the ray
Last Line: Of thee, the dread avatar is reveal'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Snow; Winter
First Line: How gloom the clouds! Quite stifled is the ray
Last Line: Of thee, the dread avatar is reveal'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Snow; Winter
How gloom the clouds! quite stifled is the ray,
Which from the conquer'd sun would vainly shoot
Through the blank storm; and, though the winds be mute,
Lo! down the whitening deluge finds its way:
Look up!—a thousand thousand fairy motes
Come dancing downwards, onwards, sideways whirl'd,
Like flecks of down, or apple-blossoms curl'd
By nipping winds. See how in ether floats
The light-wing'd mass—then, mantling o'er the field,
Changes at once the landscape, chokes the rill,
Hoaries with white the lately verdant hill,
And silvers earth. All to thine influence yield,
Stern conqueror of blithe Autumn: yearly still
Of thee, the dread avatar is reveal'd.
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