Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SNOWY MORN, by MARY D. WALLACE First Line: The storm king came to earth last night Last Line: "need any help now over there?" Subject(s): Morning; Storms | ||||||||
The storm king came to earth last night, This morn the world's a fairy sight. The roofs of houses take strange shapes, They're frosted just like wedding cakes, And every twig and bush and tree Is outlined in white tracery. Across the roadway down below Our minister is shoveling snow. The soft light stuff is just as white As gospel truth he preached last night. With desperate haste he clears away For feet that might be led astray, Straight to the church, a broad white track; No turning there, nor looking back. He wields the shovel like the Word With earnestness, and not deterred By anything. His coat is black As sin. It's boundless white That makes that spot stand out so bright. The doctor's lawn, next to the manse, Is buried 'neath the white expanse. Its master fusses here and there With anxious eye and busy care As if he shoveled up in pills An antidote for human ills. Though carefully he cleans the walk, At the least chance he stops to talk, And sends across a grouch barrage Which we all know is camouflage. "He doesn't like this kind of work! The minister is sure a shirk Who hasn't shoveled to the line!" Ah, we are thinking all the time Of who it was that just last year To that same minister brought cheer, Spaded his garden, cut the grass, Nor let one deed of kindness pass Within a neighbor's thought or care When sickness lay so heavy there. A heart more soft I do not know, He never turns deaf ear to woe; With sympathy he mixes pills To ease both mind and body ills. The minister, his task all done, Shoulders his shovel like a gun, In boyish fun turns toward his friend With kind intent a hand to lend. His cheery voice rings on the air, "Need any help now over there?" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...STORM AT HOPTIME by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THERE IS A SOLEMN WIND TONIGHT by KATHERINE MANSFIELD DEWEY AND DANCER by JOSEPHINE MILES MICHAEL IS AFRAID OF THE STORM by GWENDOLYN BROOKS BREACHING THE ROCK by MADELINE DEFREES THE CLOUDS ABOVE THE OCEAN by STEPHEN DOBYNS OF POLITICS, & ART by NORMAN DUBIE TREMENDOUS WIND AND RAIN by ANSELM HOLLO STREAMLINED by MARY D. WALLACE |
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