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WEST WIND IN WINTER by ALICE MEYNELL

Poet Analysis

First Line: ANOTHER DAY AWAKES. AND WHO
Last Line: HE FINDS ME 'TWIXT HIS WINGS.
Subject(s): WIND;

ANOTHER day awakes. And who --
Changing the world -- is this?
He comes at whiles, the winter through,
West Wind! I would not miss
His sudden tryst: the long, the new
Surprises of his kiss.

Vigilant, I make haste to close
With him who comes my way,
I go to meet him as he goes;
I know his note, his lay,
His colour and his morning-rose,
And I confess his day.

My window waits; at dawn I hark
His call; at morn I meet
His haste around the tossing park
And down the softened street;
The gentler light is his: the dark,
The grey -- he turns it sweet.

So too, so too, do I confess
My poet when he sings.
He rushes on my mortal guess
With his immortal things.
I feel, I know, him. On I press --
He finds me 'twixt his wings.



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