The Snow Storm Poem by Ethelwyn Wetherald

The Snow Storm

Rating: 4.3


The Great soft downy snow storm like a cloak
Descends to wrap the lean world head to feet;
It gives the dead another winding sheet,
It buries all the roofs until the smoke
Seems like a soul that from its clay has broke.
It broods moon-like upon the Autumn wheat,
And visits all the trees in their retreat
To hood and mantle that poor shivering folk.
With wintry bloom it fills the harshest grooves
In jagged pine stump fences. Every sound
It hushes to the footstep of a nun.
Sweet Charity! that brightens where it moves
Inducing darkest bits of churlish ground
To give a radiant answer to the sun.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi 22 August 2012

a good pizza poem! The last line is remarkable!

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Karen Sinclair 22 August 2012

beautifully descriptive and full of atmosphere, if a little predictable by todays standards but i do agree with veeraiyah the last line just lifts the whole piece

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Terry Craddock 22 August 2014

A beautifully written poem, I loved these lines the most for their imaginative freshness It gives the dead another winding sheet, It buries all the roofs until the smoke Seems like a soul that from its clay has broke. Even the first line seems to invite the reader in warm tucked up in bed, with the line 'The Great soft downy snow storm like a cloak' or perhaps, it is the eternal invitation to go out and explore the new winter white changes coming in an Autumn storm?

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the snow always muffles the sounds of Winter and is beautiful to watch as lacy snowflakes dance on the wind..how beautiful this poem is as in your words you capture the essence and spirit of the season..

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Savita Tyagi 22 August 2014

Beautiful poem. smoke like soul broken from its clay. Loved the lines.

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Gajanan Mishra 22 August 2013

giving radiant answer to the sun, I like it.

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Anita Sehgal 22 August 2012

Every sound It hushes to the footstep of a nun. Beautiful

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