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The Snow-Storm Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house at the garden’s end. The sled and traveller stopped... Poet: Ralph Waldo Emerson	A Storm in the Distance I see the cloud-born squadrons of the gale, Their lines of rain like glittering spears deprest, While all the affrighted land grows darkly pale In flashing charge on earth’s half-shielded breast. Sounds like the rush of trampling columns float From... Poet: Paul Hamilton Hayne	Summer Storm UNTREMULOUS in the river clear, Toward the sky’s image, hangs the imaged bridge; So still the air that I can hear The slender clarion of the unseen midge; Out of the stillness, with a gathering creep, Like rising wind in leaves, which now... Poet: James Russell Lowell	A Storm in the Distance I See the cloud-born squadrons of the gale, Their lines of rain like glittering spears deprest, While all the affrighted land grows darkly pale In flashing charge on earth’s half-shielded breast. Sounds like the rush of trampling columns float From... Poet: Paul Hamilton Hayne
The Snow-Storm Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow; and, driving o’er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight; the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farmhouse at the garden’s end. The sled and traveller stopped... Poet: Ralph Waldo Emerson	The Snow-Storm The Great soft downy snow-storm like a cloak Descends to wrap the lean world head to feet; It gives the dead another winding-sheet, It buries all the roofs until the smoke Seems like a soul that from its clay has broke. It broods moon-like upon the Autumn... Poet: Ethelwyn Wetherald	A Snow-Storm Scene in a Vermont Winter ’T IS a fearful night in the winter time, As cold as it ever can be; The roar of the blast is heard like the chimes Of the waves on an angry sea. The moon is full; but her silver light The storm dashes out with its... Poet: Charles Gamage Eastman	Storm in the Alps From “Childe Harold,” Canto III. THE SKY is changed!—and such a change! O night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags... Poet: Lord Byron
The Storm Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! List, ye landsmen, all to me, Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea; From bounding billows, first in motion, When the distant whirlwinds rise, To the tempest-troubled ocean,... Poet: George Alexander Stevens	Glee — The great storm is over — Glee ! the great storm is over ! Four have recovered the land ; Forty gone down together Into the boiling sand. Ring, for the scant salvation... Poet: