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PWB Peeps Open Thread: Poetry of Fauset [1]

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Date: 2023-03-24  

Slanting, driving, Summer rain

How you wash my heart of pain!

How you make me think of trees,

Ships and gulls and flashing seas!

In your furious, tearing wind,

Swells a chant that heals my mind;

And your passion high and proud,

Makes me shout and laugh aloud!

Autumn rains that start at dawn,

“Dropping veils of thinnest lawn,”

Soaking sod between dank grasses,

Sweeping golden leaves in masses,—

Blotting, blurring out the Past,

In a dream you hold me fast;

Calling, coaxing to forget

Things that are, for things not yet.

Winter tempest, winter rain,

Hurtling down with might and main,

You but make me hug my hearth,

Laughing, sheltered from your wrath.

Now I woo my dancing fire,

Piling, piling drift-wood higher.

Books and friends and pictures old,

Hearten while you pound and scold!

Pattering, wistful showers of Spring

Set me to remembering

Far-off times and lovers too,

Gentle joys and heart-break rue,—

Memories I’d as lief forget,

Were not oblivion sadder yet.

Ah! you twist my mind with pain,

Wistful, whispering April rain!

Summer, Autumn, Winter rain,

How you ease my heart of pain!

Whispering, wistful showers of Spring,

How I love the hurt you bring!

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