Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889 | | | | Song of the North Wind | | By James Benjamin Kenyon (1858–1924) |
| | [Born in Frankfort, Herkimer Co., N. Y., 1858. Died in New York, N. Y., 1924. From In Realms of Gold. 1887.] |
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HARK to the voice of me! | |
| Hear thou the singing | |
| Of him who has never | |
| Been paid for his song! | |
| This is the choice of me, | 5 |
| Still to go ringing | |
| The rhymes that forever | |
| Are surly and strong. | |
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| Know’st thou the regions cold | |
| Whence I have hasted? | 10 |
| Know’st thou the way I take | |
| Over the earth? | |
| Still stand the legends old— | |
| Ice-kings unwasted— | |
| Fending the frigid lake | 15 |
| Where I had birth. | |
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| Frost-banded fountains | |
| Snow-fed from far peaks; | |
| Firths of the polar sea | |
| Rigid as stone; | 20 |
| Shag-bearded mountains; | |
| Deeps that no star seeks; | |
| Strange lights that solar be— | |
| These I have known. | |
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| Men fear the breath of me; | 25 |
| Sorrow and anguish, | |
| Famine and fever | |
| Follow my path. | |
| I am the death of thee; | |
| I make thee languish; | 30 |
| Swiftly I sever | |
| Love’s ties in my wrath. | |
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| Chains cannot hold me, | |
| Gyves cannot bind me, | |
| Bolts cannot lock me, | 35 |
| Floods cannot drown! | |
| Fly—and I fold thee; | |
| Hide—and I find thee; | |
| Cry—and I mock thee; | |
| Howling thee down! | 40 | | |
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