<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529037" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Big Wind</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where were the greenhouses going, <br>Lunging into the lashing <br>Wind driving water <br>So far down the river <br>All the faucets stopped?— <br>So we drained the manure-machine <br>For the steam plant, <br>Pumping the stale mixture <br>Into the rusty boilers, <br>Watching the pressure gauge <br>Waver over to red, <br>As the seams hissed <br>And the live steam <br>Drove to the far <br>End of the rose-house, <br>Where the worst wind was, <br>Creaking the cypress window-frames, <br>Cracking so much thin glass <br>We stayed all night, <br>Stuffing the holes with burlap; <br>But she rode it out, <br>That old rose-house, <br>She hove into the teeth of it, <br>The core and pith of that ugly storm, <br>Ploughing with her stiff prow, <br>Bucking into the wind-waves <br>That broke over the whole of her, <br>Flailing her sides with spray, <br>Flinging long strings of wet across the roof-top, <br>Finally veering, wearing themselves out, merely <br>Whistling thinly under the wind-vents; <br>She sailed until the calm morning, <br>Carrying her full cargo of roses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Theodore+Roethke">Theodore Roethke</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529037" data-title="Big Wind de Theodore Roethke" data-description="Where were the greenhouses going, Lunging into the lashing Wind driving water So far down the river All the faucets stopped?— So we drained the manure-machine For the steam plant, Pumping the stale mixture Into the rusty boilers, Watchi..."></div> </div> </div>

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