Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WINTER, by E. H. SMITH


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WINTER, by                    
First Line: The naked trees rattle their gaunt limbs
Last Line: After death will spring come again?
Subject(s): Cold; Frost; Seasons; Winter


THE naked trees rattle their gaunt limbs
In the gusts of the biting wind.
Deeper sinks the chill into the frozen earth.

The song of the streams is choked
By an unrelenting pall of ice.
The sky is gray with gathering snows.

Then, like the hand of time on sorrow,
The pitying snow will cover the scar of the earth
And, as a curtain, hide the shame of nature.

But after the winter comes the spring.
The trees will clothe their limbs with tender leaves;
The frozen streams will wake with new life.

The blasts of old age strip me naked;
Helpless, I ask only the blessedness of covering snows.
After death will spring come again?





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