Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WINTER-FEAR, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY



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First Line: The rain has come
Last Line: The sun, then, god! What agony these days of rain!
Subject(s): Fear; Rain; Wind; Winter


The rain has come.
Gone the empurpled air
Which hung upon the golden wreckage of the trees.
The rain has come,
And one no longer sees
The sun. The radiance that lay upon the vair
And crimson of the earth is vanished with these.

The wind is up.
It greits; nor dazzles now
The quiet lanes with ruined autumn's gorgeousness.
The wind is up,
But tho' the boughs confess
Its potency, of jeweled tribute they allow
No leaf. The earth, Danae once, is treasureless.

Winter is come --
The night-cursed, fearful days,
Stained and blurred with tears and querulous with pain.
Winter is come,
And if my heart refrain
Most bitterly from backward looks when pitying stays
The sun, then, God! what agony these days of rain!





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