How roars this wintry tempest, fierce and loud, Borne from far passes of the ice-locked hills! How raves this desolate rain, whose tumult fills The whole dark heaven up-piled with cloud on cloud; While yonder quivering pine-trees, drenched and bowed, Blend their strange moaning with the noise of rills, And one swift stream, whose angry clarion shrills, Piercing the mists which o'er it cling and crowd! Roar, mighty wind! rave on, thou merciless rain! Uproot, and madly ravage -- whilst ye may; Your furious voices smite mine ears in vain, For, housed and warmed by this bright fireside cheer, -- Safe as on some calm springtide's calmest day, I mock your ire, nor heed your wild despair. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WOOING by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE DYING WORDS OF STONEWALL JACKSON by SIDNEY LANIER YARROW REVISITED by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 30. CHRIST AND WOMAN by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 6. OF PATIENCE by WILLIAM BASSE MORGIANA DANCES by WILLIAM ROSE BENET NEW ENGLAND'S GROWTH by WILLIAM BRADFORD THE HERON BALLADS: 1. FIRST BALLAD IN THROAT by ROBERT BURNS |