Jessica Duchen's classical music blog: Longfellow for Christmas Eve
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Jessica Duchen's classical music blog: Longfellow for Christmas Eve

Music and writing, with ginger, in London, UK

  • BLOG OF THE WEEK - The Times, 22 October 2005
  • "Everything she writes is worth reading...

    " - The Times

  • Out of the bosom of the Air.
    Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
    Over the woodlands brown and bare,
    Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
    Silent and soft and slow
    Descends the snow.

    Even as our cloudy fancies take
    Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
    Even as the troubled heart doth make
    In the white countenance confession,
    The troubled sky reveals
    The grief it feels

    This is the poem of the air,
    Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
    This is the secret of despair,
    Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
    Now whispered and revealed
    To wood and field.

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