Kemper Hammond Broadus. Blizzard. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Blizzard

By Kemper Hammond Broadus


From “Rough Ways” ALL day the wind has sent along the trail
A cry of battle. Now night falls again.
Swept through the dusk like horsemen spectral-pale,
The charging snow-gusts spur across the plain.

Beneath their onslaught fades each wagon-mark.	5
The winding road is captured. Mad to slay,
They thunder down upon me in the dark;
They strike me, blind me—I have lost the way!