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Sunday, October 28, 2018

October Snow / Lew Sarett


October Snow

Swiftly the blizzard stretched a frozen arm
From out the hollow night –
Stripping the world of all her scarlet pomp,
And muffling her in white.

Dead white the hills; dead white the soundless plain;
Dead white the blizzard's breath –
Heavy with hoar that touched each woodland thing
With a white and silent death.

In inky stupor, along the drifted snow,
The sluggish river rolled –
A numb black snake caught lingering in the sun
By autumn's sudden cold.

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Lew Sarett (1888-1954)
from The Box of God, 1922

[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]

Lew Sarett biography

1 comment:

  1. A wonderful poet who seems to be overlooked in a lot of schools nowadays. Let’s not kill off this kind of poetry by not reading it! I barely found one of his books. Seems like a miracle.

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