{"id":1908,"date":"2019-05-01T00:21:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T00:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/142.150.46.75\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2019-05-03T11:58:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T11:58:44","slug":"the-windy-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1908","title":{"rendered":"The Windy Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"

The four chief winds are giants, long<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> in length,
\nAnd as broad<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> set, and wondrous great in strength.
\nTheir heads are more (as it doth clear<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> appear)
\nThan all<\/span>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span> the months or seasons of the year.
\nNay, some say more than all the days and<\/span>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span> nights,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5
\nAnd some, they\u2019re numberless and infinite.<\/span>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The first four heads are largest of them all;
\nThe twelve are next, the thirty two but small,
\nThe rest so little, and their breath so weak,
\nTheir mouths so narrow that they hardly<\/span>7<\/sup><\/a><\/span> speak.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 10
\nThese giants are so lustful and so wild,
\nAs they by force do<\/span>8<\/sup><\/a><\/span> get the Earth with child,
\nAnd big she swells until the time of birth:<\/span>9<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\nHer bowels stretched, high bellied is the earth.<\/span>10<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\nThen doth she groan with grievous pains,<\/span>11<\/sup><\/a><\/span> and shake, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 15
\nUntil she\u2019s brought abed with her<\/span>12<\/sup><\/a><\/span> earthquake.
\nThis child of wind doth ruin all it<\/span>13<\/sup><\/a><\/span> meets,
\nRends<\/span>14<\/sup><\/a><\/span> rocks and mountains like to paper sheets;
\nIt swallows cities, and the heav\u2019ns<\/span>15<\/sup><\/a><\/span> doth tear;
\nIt threatens Jove, and makes the gods to fear.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 20<\/p>\n

The North Wind\u2019s cold; his nerves are<\/span>16<\/sup><\/a><\/span> dry and strong;
\nHe pulls up oaks, and<\/span>17<\/sup><\/a><\/span> lays them all along.
\nIn icy fetters he<\/span>18<\/sup><\/a><\/span> binds rivers fast,
\nImprisons fishes in the<\/span>19<\/sup><\/a><\/span> ocean vast,
\nPlows up the seas, and hail for seed in flings,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 25
\nWhence<\/span>20<\/sup><\/a><\/span> crops of overflows the tide in brings.
\nHe drives the clouds in troops, which<\/span>21<\/sup><\/a><\/span> makes them run,
\nAnd blows as if he would put out<\/span>22<\/sup><\/a><\/span> the sun.<\/p>\n

The Southern Wind, who is as fierce as he,
\nAnd to the Sun as great an enemy,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 30
\nDoth raise<\/span>23<\/sup><\/a><\/span> an army of thick clouds and mists,
\nWith which he<\/span>24<\/sup><\/a><\/span> thinks to do just as he lists,
\nFlinging<\/span>25<\/sup><\/a><\/span> up waters to quench out his light,
\nAnd<\/span>26<\/sup><\/a><\/span> in his face, black clouds to hide his sight.
\nBut the bright<\/span>27<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Sun cannot endure this scorn,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 35
\nAnd<\/span>28<\/sup><\/a><\/span> doth them all in showers of rain<\/span>29<\/sup><\/a><\/span> return.<\/p>\n

The Western Wind, without ambitious ends,
\nDoth what he can to join and make them friends,
\nFor he is of a nature sweet and mild,
\nAnd not so headstrong, rough, nor rude, nor<\/span>30<\/sup><\/a><\/span> wild.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 40
\nHe\u2019s soft to touch, and pleasant to the<\/span>31<\/sup><\/a><\/span> ear\u2014
\nHis voice sounds sweet and small, and very clear\u2014
\nAnd makes hot love to young fresh buds that spring;<\/span>32<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\nThey give him sweets, which he through th\u2019air doth fling,<\/span>33<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\nNot through<\/span>34<\/sup><\/a><\/span> dislike, but for to make them known,<\/span>35<\/sup><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 45
\nAs pictures are for beauteous faces shown.<\/span>36<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

But O, the Eastern Wind is<\/span>37<\/sup><\/a><\/span> full of spite,
\nDiseases brings, which cruelly do bite;
\nHe blasts young buds, and corn within the blade,<\/span>38<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\nHe rots the sheep; to men he brings the plague.<\/span>39<\/sup><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 50
\nNay, he\u2019s of such ill nature, that he would<\/span>40<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\nDestroy the world with poison, if he could.<\/span>41<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The four chief winds are giants, long in length, And as broad set, and wondrous great in strength. Their heads are more (as it doth clear appear) Than all the months or seasons of the year. Nay, some say more than all the days and nights,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5 And some, they\u2019re numberless and infinite. The first … Continue reading The Windy Giants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217,233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part4","category-poems-part4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}