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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO WINTER, by AMELIA OPIE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Power of the awful wind, whose hollow blast
Last Line: Spangling the icy robe that wraps thy breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia
Subject(s): Winter
First Line: Power of the awful wind, whose hollow blast
Last Line: Spangling the icy robe that wraps thy breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia
Subject(s): Winter
Power of the awful wind, whose hollow blast
Hurls desolation wide, thy sway I hail!
Thou o'er the scene around can'st beauties cast,
Superior far to aught that Summer's gale
Can, in the ripening year, to bloom awake;
To view thy majesty, the cheerful tale,
The dance, the festive song, I, pleased, forsake;
And here, thy power and thy attractions own,
Now the pale regent of thy splendid night
Decks with her yellow rays thy snowy throne;
Richly her beams on Summer's mantle light,
Richly they gild chill Autumn's tawny vest
But, ah! to me they shine more chastely bright,
Spangling the icy robe that wraps thy breast.
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