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FIRST SNOW IN ALSACE by RICHARD WILBUR

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE SNOW CAME DOWN LAST NIGHT LIKE MOTHS
Last Line: HE WAS THE FIRST TO SEE THE SNOW
Subject(s): ALSACE, FRANCE; WORLD WAR II;

Poem Sources:

THE OXFORD BOOK OF WAR POETRY.
  STALLWORTHY, JON (ED.)
  (1984)
 
ARTICLES OF WAR; A COLLECTION OF AMERICAN POETRY ABOUT WORLD WAR II.
  STOKESBURY, LEON (ED.)
  (1990)
 
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY. 3RD ED. ED, BY ALEXANDER ALLISON, BLAKE HERBERT, ET AL.
  ALLISON, ALEXANDER (ED.)
  (1983)
 
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY. FOURTH EDITION.
  FERGUSON, MARGARET, SALTER, MARY JO, & STALLWORTHY, JON (EDS.)
  (1996)
 
WAR POEMS.
  HOLLANDER, JOHN (ED.)
  (1999)
 
NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS.
  WILBUR, RICHARD
  (1988)
 



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