Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TWICE IN THE YEAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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Last Line: Twice in the sweep of the swinging year
Subject(s): Seasons


Twice in the year
The heavens are near.
Closing softly upon the eye.
Tenderly pressed
As a mother's breast
On the hungry mouth and the groping cry.

Once when the slow,
Hesitant snow
Spreads a silence on vale and hill.
And awes the trees
To their praying knees,
And draws the curtains and says. "Be still!"

And once again
When the walks of men
Are suddenly roofed with a trembling screen,
In a day, an hour,
Of sun and shower,
A laugh of leaves and a burst of green !

And high and far
The heavens are,
Twice in the sweep of the swinging year.





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