Poems (Meynell, 1921)/West Wind in Winter

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WEST WIND IN WINTER

ANOTHER day awakes. And who—
Changing the world—is this?
He comes at whiles, the winter through
West Wind! I would not miss
His sudden tryst: the long, the new
Surprises of his kiss.


Vigilant, I make haste to close
With him who comes my way.
I go to meet him as he goes;
I know his note, his lay,
His colour and his morning-rose,
And I confess his day.


My window waits; at dawn I hark
His call; at morn I meet
His haste around the tossing park
And down the softened street;
The gentler light is his; the dark,
The grey—he turns it sweet.


So too, so too, do I confess
My poet when he sings.
He rushes on my mortal guess
With his immortal things.
I feel, I know him. On I press—
He finds me 'twixt his wings.