Out of the Northland sombre weirds are calling;
A shadow falleth southward day by day;
Sad summers arms grow cold; his fire is falling;
His feet draw back to give the stern one way.
It is the voice and shadow of the slayer,
Slayer of loves, sweet world, slayer of dreams;
Make sad thy voice with sombre plaint and prayer;
Make gray thy woods, and darken all they streams.
Black grows the river, blacker drifts the eddy:
The sky is grey; the woods are cold below:
Oh make the bosom, and thy sad lips ready,
For the cold kisses of the folding snow.
The Coming Of Winter
Archibald Lampman
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Poem topics: fire, river, sky, snow, world, sweet, ready, black, prayer, voice, shadow, Valentine's Day, sad, cold, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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