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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WESTERN WIND (1), by ANONYMOUS
First Line: "o western wind, when wilt thou blow, / the small rain down can rain?"
Last Line: "christ, if my love were in my arms / and I in my bed again!"
Variant Title(s): The Lover In Winter Plaineth For The Spring;seventeenth-century Poem
Subject(s): Absence;longing;love;love - Loss Of;wind; Separation;isolation
First Line: "o western wind, when wilt thou blow, / the small rain down can rain?"
Last Line: "christ, if my love were in my arms / and I in my bed again!"
Variant Title(s): The Lover In Winter Plaineth For The Spring;seventeenth-century Poem
Subject(s): Absence;longing;love;love - Loss Of;wind; Separation;isolation
O Western wind, when wilt thou blow,
That the small rain down can rain?
Christ, that my love were in my arms,
And I in my bed again!
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THE EVENING OF THE MIND by DONALD JUSTICE
CHRISTMAS AWAY FROM HOME by JANE KENYON
THE PROBLEM by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES
WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by DAVID LEHMAN
THIS UNMENTIONABLE FEELING by DAVID LEHMAN
TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS