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Poem by George William Russell
Winter
A DIAMOND glow of winter o’er the world:
Amid the chilly halo nigh the west
Flickers a phantom violet bloom unfurled
Dim on the twilight’s breast.
Only phantasmal blooms but for an hour,
A transient beauty; then the white stars shine
Chilling the heart: I long for thee to flower,
O bud of light divine.
But never visible to sense or thought
The flower of Beauty blooms afar withdrawn;
If in our being then we know it not,
Or, knowing, it is gone.
George William Russell
Poem Theme: Winter
George William Russell's other poems:- A Woman's Voice
- Kinship
- Brotherhood
- The Place of Rest
- Dusk
Poems of the other poets with the same name:
William Shakespeare Winter ("When icicles hang by the wall") Dante Rossetti Winter ("How large that thrush looks on the bare thorn-tree!") Robert Southey Winter ("A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee") Samuel Johnson Winter ("No more the morn with tepid rays") Robert Burns Winter ("THE wintry wast extends his blast") William Morris Winter ("I am Winter, that do keep") Charles Mackay Winter ("When the tempests fly") Janet Hamilton Winter ("Loud blaw the wild an' wintry win's") Edith Nesbit Winter ("HOLD your hands to the blaze") Anne Hunter Winter ("Behold the gloomy tyrant’s awful form") Archibald Lampman Winter ("The long days came and went; the riotous bees") John Lapraik Winter ("STERN Winter comes, with threat’ning frown") Henry Alford Winter ("Had I the wondrous magic to invest")
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