The tempest-wind that shouts along the pass,
Pours flood-like on the plain and cuts the skin
With tingling thong. The thick clouds break and spin
Round pools of sky that dapple the whirled mass.
The shaken tussocks of the sering grass
Whistle disconsolate beneath the din,
A flurrying greyness breaking cold and thin
On the chill river's dull and troubled glass.
Above the stream an eddy of pale leaves.
A spiral helplessness, a twittering check,
A slanting flutter, and the waifs are gone!
An old stripped willow o'er its image grieves,
In the deep desolation of its wreck,
Drooped over memory, disillusioned, wan.
First published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 May 1926;
and later in
Patria: Poems by L. H. Allen, 1941.
Author reference sites: Austlit, Australian Dictionary of Biography
See also.
Pours flood-like on the plain and cuts the skin
With tingling thong. The thick clouds break and spin
Round pools of sky that dapple the whirled mass.
The shaken tussocks of the sering grass
Whistle disconsolate beneath the din,
A flurrying greyness breaking cold and thin
On the chill river's dull and troubled glass.
Above the stream an eddy of pale leaves.
A spiral helplessness, a twittering check,
A slanting flutter, and the waifs are gone!
An old stripped willow o'er its image grieves,
In the deep desolation of its wreck,
Drooped over memory, disillusioned, wan.
First published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 May 1926;
and later in
Patria: Poems by L. H. Allen, 1941.
Author reference sites: Austlit, Australian Dictionary of Biography
See also.
