Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINTER, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How large that thrush looks on the bare thorn-tree! Last Line: And leave memorial forest-kings o'erthrown. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Winter | ||||||||
How large that thrush looks on the bare thorn-tree! A swarm of such, three little months ago, Had hidden in the leaves and let none know Save by the outburst of their minstrelsy. A white flake here and there--a snow-lily Of last night's frost--our naked flower-beds hold; And for a rose-flower on the darkling mould The hungry redbreast gleams. No bloom, no bee. The current shudders to its ice-bound sedge: Nipped in their bath, the stark reeds one by one Flash each its clinging diamond in the sun: 'Neath winds which for this Winter's sovereign pledge Shall curb great king-masts to the ocean's edge And leave memorial forest-kings o'erthrown. | 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 FOUND' (FOR A PICTURE) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI |
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