Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINTER-FEAR, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poet's Biography 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! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOOKING EAST IN THE WINTER by JOHN HOLLANDER WINTER DISTANCES by FANNY HOWE WINTER FORECAST by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN AT WINTER'S EDGE by JUDY JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 34 by JAMES JOYCE OVERTONES by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY |
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