The wind begun to rock the grass With threatening tunes and low, -- He flung a menace at the earth, A menace at the sky. The leaves unhooked themselves from trees And started all abroad; The dust did scoop itself like hands And throw away the road. The wagons quickened on the streets, The thunder hurried slow; The lightning showed a yellow beak, And then a livid claw. The birds put up the bars to nests, The cattle fled to barns; There came one drop of giant rain, And then, as if the hands That held the dams had parted hold, The waters wrecked the sky, But overlooked my father's house, Just quartering a tree. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BETROTHED ANEW by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN TWELVE SONNETS: 4. LONELY SEASONS by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) SHAKESPEARE READS THE KING JAMES VERSION by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: THE MASQUE-WRITER'S APOLOGY by THOMAS CAMPION PERSUASIONS TO JOY: A SONG by THOMAS CAREW SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 27 by BLISS CARMAN |