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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINTERLIGHT, by FRANK WILMOT Poet's Biography
First Line: Oft have I seen at evening by the lake
Last Line: To stencil a frosted pavement with jagged gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Winter
First Line: Oft have I seen at evening by the lake
Last Line: To stencil a frosted pavement with jagged gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Winter
OFT have I seen at evening by the lake
The swans sail past the willow-hooded boat,
Where broken light and spreading ripples make
A comet-train behind them as they float.
I have absorbed great artistry; song has wrought
Its magic upon me; often I have come
Out of a trance of passionate reading fraught
With power of vision to draw the faint hills home.
These and their company take me, magic, immense;
Yet in the morning equivalent wonders unfold
When the sun pours through the breaks in a paling fence
To stencil a frosted pavement with jagged gold.
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