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Winds of Wrath

Gamaliel Bradford 1863 (Boston, Massachusetts) – 1932



Silly little bird,
Singing of its love,
Sang and never heard
Winds of wrath above.

Winds of wrath came down,
Tossed the world about.
Bird and song were gone
When the stars came out.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABAB XCXC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 182
Words 36
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4

Gamaliel Bradford

Gamaliel Bradford was an American biographer, critic, poet, and dramatist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the sixth of seven men called Gamaliel Bradford in unbroken succession, of whom the first, Gamaliel Bradford, was a great-grandson of Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony. His grandfather, Dr. Gamaliel Bradford of Boston, was a noted abolitionist. more…

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