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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BLIZZARD, by WINIFRED K. MARICLE
First Line: A blizzard shakes and rattles the doors
Last Line: Heard on the wind outside the room.
Subject(s): Snow
First Line: A blizzard shakes and rattles the doors
Last Line: Heard on the wind outside the room.
Subject(s): Snow
A blizzard shakes and rattles the doors;
Its cold creeps in across the floors --
A bitter cold with a grip that clings
To marrow and bone of helpless things,
And people warm in snug abodes
Can hear the tramp of men on the roads;
The cry of children underfed,
Their home a shack with the floor a bed;
The bellowing herds that huddle in vain
Against the sweep of the open plain;
The flutter of wings in frozen trees;
The wail of brutes that starve and freeze;
And pity answers the voice of doom
Heard on the wind outside the room.
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