The Convict And Other Poems By P H W

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ISBN 13 : 9781331088073
Total Pages : 42 pages
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Download or read book The Convict written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Convict: And Other Poems The Convict. Part First. I. Now blooming Spring is young. The black bird calls Unto his mate outside my prison walls. The sun begins to build his flaming arch, And morning ushers in the first of March. But Spring is old within my withered soul - So old, she seems not in her common role; So old, she Summer seems, and Summer's breeze Is cooled by early Autum's chilly wheeze, And Autum's falling leaves smite Winter's snow, And o'er them all the cold winds blow, and blow. But Winter over laps both Spring and Fall And casts on each young hope an icy pall. Thus round and round they always backward go, Each previous season always growing slow And each succeeding season gaining speed, In order to o'er lap with hasty greed, Till icy Winter overtops them all, And then her deadening tentacles lets fall - Fell hate, intense remorse and deep despair - And feels about, and in my heart, and there, With deadly cold and horrid, fateful clasp, Summer, Fall and Spring, they, eager grasp, And hold them fast within a frozen vice Till all become one solid block of ice, And they all go hurrying round, and ever Comes Winter, Winter, Winter, Winter, Each season colder than the one before, Until my heart sends forth warm life no more Thro' out my veins, but at each beat I die And feel my hueless blood all vitrify With horror. And between each beat I live About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.