Winifred Welles
Winifred Welles was born around 1893. She authored many books of poetry and prose, including The Hesitant Heart (B. W. Huebsch, 1919); This Delicate Love (Viking, 1929); and The Lost Landscape: Some memories of a family and a town in Connecticut, 1659-1906 (Grey Walls Press, 1948). She died around 1939. Source
Dogs and Weather
I’d like a different dog
For every kind of weather--
A narrow greyhound for a fog,
A wolfhound strange and white
With a tail like a silver feather
To run with in the night,
When snow is still, and winter stars are bright.
In the fall I’d like to see
In answer to my whistle,
A golden spaniel look at me.
But best of all for rain
A terrier, hairy as a thistle,
To trot with fine disdain
Beside me down the soaked, sweet-smelling lane.
Published:
None
Length:
Regular
Literary Movements:
Children's
Anthology Years:
2022
Themes:
Nature
Literary Devices:
Alliteration
the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words appearing in succession
End Rhyme
when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same
Imagery
visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work
Metaphor
a comparison between two unrelated things through a shared characteristic
Simile
a comparison between two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”