Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, STEADY WEATHER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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STEADY WEATHER, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The year is good that paces quietly
Last Line: The heart of life laid open to the sun.
Subject(s): Weather


The year is good that paces quietly
In steady courses to its myriad goals;
For earth's hot heart outrushes to the sun,
Eager to give herself in leaf and flower,
And over-ardent for her lover's arms.
A hint of welcome, and her veins athrill
Blossom with ready loveliness too soon,
Taught sadly, as her human sisters are,
By answering blight of cold indifference,
By March's rigors and an April frost,
That love, the queen, must not forget herself,
Nor ever leave her sceptre and her throne.

So watch the wise repressions of the trees,
The chastening ice that holds them prudently,
The granite ground that seals uncounted seeds
From their undoing, and rejoice to note
The fastnesses and caution of the cold.
Rejoice! for thus, my soul, in icy ways,
In frigid stern denials manifold,
Thy spring is cast, thy blossoming of love,
Thy bourgeoning of knowledge and of life.
Steady, me soul! and trust the circling Sun.
Steady, my soul! and know that love is sure,
And truth, and life. Against the icy walls
Press boldly and confidingly. Some day,
In rush and swirl of glad enfranchisement,
All barriers will break and melt and flow,
And love and truth and beauty will be thine,
The heart of life laid open to the Sun.





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