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ANONYMOUS (1100-2010)

Western Wind, When will thou Blow?


              1Western wind, when will thou blow?
              2The small rain down can rain.
              3Christ, if my love were in my arms,
              4And I in my bed again!


Online text copyright © 2010, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: British Library Royal Appendix 58. Text from Early English Lyrics, Amorous, Divine, Moral and Trivial, ed. E. K. Chambers and F. Sidgwick (London: A. H. Bullen, 1907), p. 69. PR 1203 C6 Robarts Library.
Publication date note: early 16th century
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1998.
Recent editing: 2:2002/5/9

Rhyme: abcb


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