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Subject: WINTER Matches Found: 1287 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "OF A ROSE, A LOVELY ROSE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lestenyt, lordynges, both elde and yinge" Last Line: And schyd us fro the fyndes bond Subject(s): Flowers;roses;winter "WINTER, BY DE MONSIEUR MARIGNY; DIRECTED TO SIR ROBERT COKE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Bleak winter is from norway come Last Line: I winter shall nor feel nor see Subject(s): Winter A BECK IN WINTER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the broad, the shallow, rapid stream Last Line: And pomp of antlers -- Subject(s): Winter A CERTAIN SLANT, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Etched on the window were barbarous thistles of frost Subject(s): Ice; Winter A CHRISTMAS CAROL AND ANTHEM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hark to the voices of the night Last Line: On that first christmas night. Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas Carols; Happiness; Holidays; Singing & Singers; Winter; Joy; Delight; Songs A CHRISTMAS GLEE; FEIGNED AS FROM ELIZABETHAN COMEDY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a hey! And a hi! And a hey-ho glee! Last Line: The christmas holly and the mistletoe! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Winter; Childhood; Nativity, The A COUNTRY BOY IN WINTER, by SARAH ORNE JEWETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind may blow the snow about Last Line: But I shall stay at home. Subject(s): Country Life; Winter A COURTYARD THAW, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was strong enough today Subject(s): Winter; Weather A DAY IN MARCH, by DAYTON THOMAS GOULD Poem Text First Line: A wraith - like mist drifts down the village street Last Line: And let life's storms unheeded pass me by. Subject(s): Storms; Winter A DEAD BIRD IN WINTER, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cold, hard sky and hidden sun Last Line: From nestled blossoms round my grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Birds; Winter A DREAM OF WINTER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: These flowers survive their lover bees Last Line: The fire that's on his own warm breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Autumn; Robins; Seasons; Winter; Fall A FENCECROW IN EARLY MARCH, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last snowdrifts Subject(s): Winter; Farm Life; Fences; Agriculture; Farmers A FRAGMENT, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: On battlemented morningside Last Line: The grasses and the leaves are still. Subject(s): Wind; Winter A FUNERAL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We carried you one sullen winter day Last Line: Not lovely, friend of friends, for you were dead. Subject(s): Funerals; Grief; Winter; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness A GLEE FOR WINTER, by ALFRED DOMETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence, rude winter! Crabbed Last Line: Make sweet may of winter weather. Subject(s): Nature; Winter A GRAVE IN WINTER, by CHARD POWERS SMITH Poem Text First Line: Like tremulous spirits the snow flutters down through the Last Line: Melt in the stream. Subject(s): Graves; Winter; Tombs; Tombstones A LOVER'S UNIVERSE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When winter comes and takes away the Last Line: Adventuring with my dear? Subject(s): Love; Winter A LYRIC CALENDAR, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black-winged robbers of the north Last Line: All day long in the sere oak wood. Subject(s): Autumn; Calendars; Life; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter; Fall A MID SONG FOR SPRING, by YORK SAMPSON Poem Text First Line: Early come the pasque flowers Last Line: When the winter's long! Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Spring; Winter A NEW YEAR GREETING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hark, the new year bells are pealing Last Line: Start the new year well today! Subject(s): Greetings; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Winter; Joy; Delight A NINTH BIRTHDAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three times thrice hath winter's rough white wing Last Line: Three times thrice. Subject(s): Birthdays; Love; Roundels; Winter A NOCTURNAL UPON ST. LUCY'S DAY, BEING THE SHORTEST DAY, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's Last Line: Both the year's, and the day's deep midnight is. Variant Title(s): A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day, Being The Shortest Day Subject(s): December; Holidays; Light; Mourning; New Year; Winter; Bereavement A QUIET WINTER MORNING, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here peace and quiet reign in undisturbed dominion Last Line: And gentle winds of spring and summer. Subject(s): Grief; Peace; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness A ROAR THRO' THE TALL TWIN ELM-TREES, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Am I, dear lady mine. Subject(s): Winter A SNOWFLAKE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once he sang of summer Last Line: T is winter all the year! Subject(s): Winter A SONG FOR WINTER, by F. H. MCMAHON Poem Text First Line: Love is red as the rose Last Line: Message of red and white. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Winter A SONG OF WINTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "cold, cold! / cold tonight is broad moylurg" Last Line: That is why I say 'cold!' Subject(s): Winter A SONG OF WINTER, by EMILY JANE (DAVIS) PFEIFFER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Barb'd blossom of the guarded gorse Last Line: Bear witness to his human will. Subject(s): Winter A SONG OF WINTER WEATHER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't the foe that we fear Last Line: And the mud. Subject(s): Death; War; Winter; World War I; Dead, The; First World War A VALLEY RIDE IN WINTER, by MARY DUNCAN UPHAM Poem Text First Line: The sunshine struck a glory on the day Last Line: Of state, the pageant vanishes,the day is fled. Subject(s): Day; Nature; Winter A VERY EXCEPTIONAL ESKIMO, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I tell you a few of the things I know Last Line: If he didn't, the cold might freeze his dreams! Subject(s): Arctic; Eskimos; Native Americans; Snow; Winter; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A VISION OF SPRING IN WINTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O tender time that love thinks long to see Last Line: Give back, and half my april back to me. Subject(s): Flowers; Spring; Vision; Winter A WIDOW SPEAKS TO THE AURORA'S OF A DECEMBER NIGHT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My yard with its pines is almost spherical in winter Last Line: Falling off the dangerous, true edge of daylight. Subject(s): Night; Quiet Life; Widows & Widowers; Winter; Bedtime A WINTER DAY, by ALBERT LINDLEY BEANE Poem Text First Line: A winter sky is overcast and gray Last Line: And free eternally from toil and care. Subject(s): Winter A WINTER DAYBREAK ABOVE VENCE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Winter; Nature A WINTER EDEN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A winter garden in an alder swamp Last Line: To make it worth life’s while to wake and sport Subject(s): Winter; Gardens & Gardening A WINTER HEDGEROW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wintry wolds are white; the wind Last Line: The shrewmice sleep 'mid nested leaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Wind; Winter A WINTER LANDSCAPE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night, all day, in dizzy downward flight Last Line: Herself a star beneath the starry sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Winter A WINTER NIGHT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a chilly winter's night Last Line: Were left in loneliness behind. Subject(s): Night; Solitude; Winter; Bedtime; Loneliness A WINTER NIGHT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When biting boreas, fell and doure Last Line: The most resembles god. Subject(s): Winter A WINTER NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My window-pane is starred with frost Last Line: My heart is crying in the cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Winter A WINTER NIGHT, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night is cold and frosty Last Line: Of radiant heav'nly love. Subject(s): Winter A WINTER NOSEGAY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wither'd winter blossoms Last Line: Hence! -- from my shelf! Subject(s): Flowers; Winter A WINTER PIECE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the heavy veil you wear Last Line: On love's warm bosom lies at rest. Subject(s): Winter A WINTER PIECE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time has been that these wild solitudes Last Line: Shall buffet the vexed forests in his rage. Subject(s): Winter A WINTER PIECE, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: A little while ago Last Line: "where are my blossoms now?" Subject(s): Winter A WINTER PIECE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when the freezing blasts of boreas blow Last Line: Whose dazling lustre whitens all the skies. Subject(s): Winter A WINTER REVERIE ON A WESTERN PLAIN, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No hills or mountains grace the vast expanse Last Line: Of earthly gain, the longest hope of many prayers. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness A WINTER RIDE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall declare the joy of the running! Last Line: Joy! With the vigorous earth I am one. Subject(s): Winter A WINTER SCENE AND REFLECTIONS, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To get at nature's finer nobler grace and power Last Line: Of mind and heart, a lumed light of all eternity. Subject(s): Life; Memory; Nature; Winter A WINTER SEA, by GRACE R. LLOYD Poem Text First Line: I love the sea, its mystery Last Line: On my snow-blocked new england farm. Subject(s): Sea; Winter; Ocean A WINTER SONG, by PAULINE FRANCES CAMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, little one with drowsy eyes Last Line: Come where they wait for thee! Subject(s): Winter A WINTER SONG; TO ALICE MEYNELL, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, through grasses stiff with rime Last Line: Of rapture! Subject(s): Meynell, Alice (1847-1922); Winter A WINTER SUNSET, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wonderful glory of color Last Line: Will guerdon thy trusting heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Evening; Winter; Sunset; Twilight A WINTER THOUGHT, by JABEZ EARLE Poem Text First Line: The man whose constitution's strong Last Line: "does all his damps and darkness clear." Subject(s): Winter A WINTER TWILIGHT, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The year has reached december days Last Line: And so he dreams himself to rest. Subject(s): Animals; December; Dogs; Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Winter; Male-female Relations A WINTER TWILIGHT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blood-shotten through the bleak gigantic trees Last Line: As each, alternate, nears or leaves the strand. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Evening; Winter; Sunset; Twilight A WINTER WALK, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We never had believed, I wis Last Line: The sun sets o'er the barren lands. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Winter A WINTER'S DAWN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the long and dreary night Last Line: And the voice that calls from a by-gone year. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Dawn; Winter; Sunrise A WINTER'S DAY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the hills and down the narrow ways Last Line: O reeking earth, thou whited sepulchre! Subject(s): Winter A WINTER'S DAY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into my garden sweet and fair Last Line: And she asks how long the sun will shine. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love; Night; Sun; Winter; Bedtime A WINTER'S NIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: It is a winter's night and cold Last Line: Still shines with undiminished light. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Winter A WINTER'S NIGHT, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind has reverenced the splendor of the night Last Line: I would to-night the storms were all awake! Subject(s): Night; Storms; Wind; Winter; Bedtime A WINTRY SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A robin said: the spring will never come Last Line: Dimpled his blue, yet thirsted evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Winter A WORD FOR WINTER, by STEPHEN MOONEY Poem Text First Line: Burn the tall brown bough Last Line: Glow as they perish. Subject(s): Winter A YEAR'S CHANGES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This nadir: the wet hole Last Line: Or return to draw me back to a home. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Nature; Winter; Dead, The ABOUT CHILDREN, by HARRY+(2) CLIFTON Poem Source First Line: At three on a winter afternoon Last Line: Of absolute darkness, and of absolute cold Subject(s): Children; Winter ABSENCE IN SPRING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What boots it me to see this verdure fair Last Line: Her who doth hold my life and death in hers. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Life; Spring; Wind; Winter; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The ADVENT, by HOWARD MCKINLEY CORNING Poem Text First Line: Last night / the shrill-voiced hounds of march Last Line: Walk with tomorrow. Subject(s): Spring; Winter AFTER A CITY WINTER, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hill tops are forms of silence Last Line: And the blue curve of a wing. Subject(s): Cities; Winter; Urban Life AFTER AUTUMNE, WINTER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Die ere long I'm sure, I shall Last Line: After leaves, the tree must fall. Subject(s): Winter AFTER THANKSGIVING, by SANDRA M. GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Lord, as rilke says, the year bears down toward winter, past Last Line: And the ways of the ice %will be narrow, delicate Subject(s): Winter AFTER THE FLOOD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As soon as the idea of the flood abated Subject(s): Winter AFTER THE FOURTH ICE STORM, by ANNE SHELDON Poem Source First Line: A bird could walk the crust but no bird does Last Line: Nothing here remembers what it was Subject(s): Ice; Survival; Winter AFTER TU FU (THEY SAY YOU'RE STAYING IN A MOUNTAIN TEMPLE), by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the damp evenings of summertime Last Line: On the other side of the clouds Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Summer; Winter; Fall AFTER WINTER, by CAROLYN SHERWIN BAILEY Poem Source First Line: A little bit of blowing Subject(s): Winter AGAINST THE REST OF THE YEAR, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The meadow's a dream I'm working to wake to Last Line: Forever comes to mind, and peaks where the snow stays Subject(s): Dreams; Rivers; Winter; Nightmares AGAINST WINTER, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The truth is dark under your eyelids. Subject(s): Winter AGING ONE, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning my hair shone white, covered with crystals of Last Line: Who would believe that I have not one gray hair to show %for my entire journey? Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter AH MY DERE, AH MY DERE SON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Winter AL THE MERYERE IS THAT PLACE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Winter ALBANY WINTER, by MICHAEL J. HENRY Poem Source First Line: In the foyer closet by the staircase Last Line: But the strange skulls and wings of death %still clear, still indelible Subject(s): Future; Home; Time; Winter ALKALI, by ALLEN BRADEN Poem Source First Line: The muscular flank of winter Last Line: Soured water in the well %and set the deed on fire Subject(s): Winter ALL HAIL TO A NIGHT, by WILLIAM DOUW LIGHTHALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All hail to a night when the stars ...' Alternate Author Name(s): Schuyler-lighthall, William Douw Subject(s): Sports; Winter ALL THINGS STAND OUT AGAINST THE SKY, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Between queen tiy (consort of amenophis iii, who reigned 1417-1379 b.C.) Last Line: That's wasted on the young Subject(s): Winter; Conduct Of Life ALREADY A LONG WAY OFF THEY KNEW IT WAS HIM, by EVA STROM Poem Source Last Line: The empty plate one had tried to induce him with Subject(s): Hunger; Snow; Winter AMORETTI: 4, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New year, forth looking out of janus' gate Last Line: Prepare your selfe new love to entertaine. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Winter; Spring; Youth; Old Age; Life; Death AN ADIRONDACK WINTER SONG, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Within our adirondack home Last Line: With light the soul doth know. Subject(s): Peace; Seasons; Snow; Weather; Winter AN OLD MAN'S WINTER NIGHT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: All out-of-doors looked darkly in at him Last Line: It's thus he does it of a winter night. Subject(s): Winter; Old Age ANCIENT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is cold as pearl Last Line: To a whiteness older than time. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Time; Winter AND NOW WINTER, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: And now, winter. Sunlight pales the air. Last Line: The interloper light, our thighs suffice. Subject(s): Sex; Winter ANORECTIC, by ANYA KRUGOVOY Poem Source First Line: I love a bare tree in the winter Last Line: Self the straight line the space with nothing %inside it no way to get in nothing to escape Subject(s): Self; Solitude; Winter ANOTHER SLEEP, by C. ALBERT LOUGHTON Poem Text First Line: It was almost spring today Last Line: While they have another sleep. Subject(s): Winter APART IN THE WINTER, by NARPATI NALHA Poem Source First Line: November saw the prince set off abroad Last Line: My golden body's yours to rule! Subject(s): Absence; Winter APPARITION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All rose before the aged apparition Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Winter APPROACH OF WINTER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The half-stripped trees Last Line: Edge the bare garden. Subject(s): Winter APRIL 5, 1974, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air was soft, the ground still cold. Subject(s): Winter; Spring ARCADIAN WINTER, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Woe is me to tell it thee Last Line: Shepherd maids no longer fair Subject(s): Winter ARMANI WEATHER, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In that long %navy blue %cashmere coat Last Line: Like the apple %against his dark skin Subject(s): Cold; Men; Winter ARRIVAL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And yet one arrives somehow Last Line: Like a winter wind . . . ! Subject(s): Winter AS DEAD LEAVES FALL, by KATHLEEN MONICA NICHOLSON Poem Text First Line: As dead leaves fall, crisp, feathery, and Last Line: Where live they now past earth and life and time? Subject(s): Holidays; Winter ASTRAEA REDUX: A POEM ON THE HAPPY RESTORATION AND RETURN OF HIS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now with a general peace the world was blest Last Line: The world a monarch, and that monarch you Variant Title(s): Poem On The Happy Restoration & Return Of His Sacred Majesty Charles; Astraea Redu Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Sforza, Ludovico (1452-1508); Winter AT WINTER'S EDGE, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard to imagine the creek without this luxury of destruction Last Line: The privet is doomed Subject(s): Winter; Dams AUTUMN IS GONE, by ROSELLA G. HANSON Poem Text First Line: The first drab fringes of winter appear Last Line: Autumn, past and gone! Subject(s): Winter AWAKE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A winter so hard you think the shrubs may never rouse Last Line: And the tail washes up on your boot. Subject(s): Rebirth; Spring; Winter B. CLINTON, MORTICIAN, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: It was all right for them to find him Last Line: Of that black night and thumb them shut Subject(s): Death; Winter BACK FROM TOWN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old friends allus is the best Last Line: And shake a friendly leg with me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Home; Winter BACKROAD, by AMY FLEURY Poem Source First Line: I remember the first whiskey kiss Last Line: And guilt, caught like a thorn in my throat Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Winter BACKWARD GLANCE, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fiery soles of my feet burn with every step, even Last Line: One more time, yes, even stagger back and stand quietly before %her house Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter BALLADE OF MID-WINTER NIGHTS, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: An icy wind sweeps up the dim-lit street Last Line: Our trees stand starkly nude upon the lawn. Subject(s): Frost; Weather; Winter BALLADE QUE VILLON FEIT A LA REQUESTE ... NOSTRE DAME, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dame des cieulx, regente terrienne Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Winter BALLADE TO THEOCRITUS, IN WINTER, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Leave the smoke, the wealth, the roar Last Line: Where breaks the blue sicilian sea! Subject(s): Theocritus (310-250 B.c.); Winter BARTER, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Now the winter seems a pseudonym Last Line: We possess the promise of the worm. Subject(s): Mortality; Seasons; Winter BEAUTIFUL ISLAND OF CEYLON, by PHILLIPS BROOKS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, this beautiful island of ceylon Subject(s): Nature; Winter BEFORE IT'S TIME TO GO TO BED, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: And slept and slept the winter away Subject(s): Sleep; Winter BEFORE SUNRISE IN WINTER, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A purple cloud hangs half-way down Last Line: That flows all round the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Winter BELATED WINTER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When winter is done, and its journey is Last Line: "since winter won't learn to behave." Subject(s): Snow; Winter BEYOND THE HAZE (A WINTER RAMBLE REVERIE), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the road was straight, the afternoon was gray" Last Line: And all of a sudden find a trite relief Subject(s): Happiness;travel;winter; Joy;delight;journeys;trips BEYOND WINTER, by ZSOFIA BALLA Poem Source First Line: Bushes scrape, bruise my chest Last Line: Tiny christmas tree skeleton %lolls in the drainage ditch Subject(s): Winter BILLY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Returning to the beginning Last Line: And descend the hill balanced in their weight. Subject(s): Children; Death; Winter; Childhood; Dead, The BIRCHES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I see birches bend to left and right Last Line: One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. Subject(s): Birch Trees; Children; Environment; Trees; Winter; Youth; Childhood; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation BIRD NOT IN THE BOOK, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: A bird, unnamed, comes among the familiars Last Line: What is his song? Where will he carry off his sun? Subject(s): Winter BIRD WITH BOSOM RED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When the winds of winter blow Subject(s): Nature; Winter BIRDS AT THE FEEDING STATION, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: In the brown branches the forsythia Last Line: Making our windows tapestries of praise Subject(s): Winter BIRDS AT WINTER NIGHTFALL; TRIOLET, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the house the flakes fly faster Last Line: And all the berries now are gone! Subject(s): Birds; Winter BIRTH OF THE SNOWSHOE, by SAMUEL MATHEWSON BAYLIS Poem Source First Line: Time the red-man had dominion Subject(s): Sports; Winter BITTER FOR SWEET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is gone with all its roses Last Line: And the last buds cease blowing. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Seasons; Winter; Fall BLEAK SEASON WAS IT, TURBULENT AND BLEAK, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To question us, “whence come ye? To what end?” Subject(s): Travel; Winter; Adversity BOARD OF TRADE SALOON, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: 5 p.M., shuffling west Last Line: An icy view that portends %the nome night's violence Subject(s): Eskimos; Ice; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Winter BODY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From the top of my head to my tiny toes Subject(s): Nature; Winter BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 8. WINTER MELODY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went into the dim wood Last Line: These rose for me -- a second time -- %the pageant moon Subject(s): Winter BOREAL SONG, by JEAN ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: Upon this winter night a floating arch Last Line: The player draws the bow across the strings! Subject(s): Winter BORN IN NOVEMBER, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Season of evenings always gray and backlit Last Line: She will always love november Subject(s): Catholics; Holidays; November; Thanksgiving; Winter BOY TRAVELLER IN SNOW, by KATHLEEN NICASTRO Poem Source First Line: A long path under the rose sky Last Line: The sifting snows of reason Subject(s): Boys; Snow; Travel; Winter BROTHER BEASTS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter is here / and there are no leaves Last Line: May have some goal. Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Soul; Stars; Winter; Nightmares BROWN CREEPER, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: I know, I know how it will be Last Line: Over a plain thing...With wings Subject(s): Winter BRUSHED BY THE MASTER'S HAND, by PAUL FLOYD CORNISH Poem Text First Line: Somebody's coming to my house Last Line: At the close of an autumn day. Subject(s): Autumn; Frost; Seasons; Winter; Fall BUT THESE THINGS ALSO, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But these things also are spring's Last Line: And spring's here, winter's not gone Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Winter BY THE STREAM, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear stream that once roared along, wild and sparkling Last Line: Are the waters beneath its surface as turbulent as yours? Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter CALIFORNIA WINTER, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is not winter: where is the crisp air Last Line: As a new purpose in the wiser soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): California; Winter CANADIAN WINTER SONG, by WILLIAM WYE SMITH Poem Source First Line: I sing you a song of canadian winter Subject(s): Sports; Winter CANARY'S STORY, by E. V. S. Poem Source First Line: I have a little mistress Subject(s): Nature; Winter CANCION Y GLOSA, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the almond trees Last Line: With these dry leaves in my hands Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Winter CANDLE LIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, true love, as we sit and think Last Line: And we kiss by candle light! Subject(s): Candles; Love; Night; Sea; Soul; Wind; Winter; Bedtime; Ocean CARDINAL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That great tree covered with snow Last Line: In a cloud of snow he pushed aside. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cardinals (birds); Snow; Winter CERTAIN SLANT, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Etched on the window were barbarous thistles of frost Last Line: The smooth cool plunder of celestial fire? Subject(s): Ice; Winter CHAMBER MUSIC: 34, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep now, o sleep now Last Line: O you unquiet heart! Subject(s): Sleep; Winter; Kisses; Love; Peace CHANGELING, by IRENE HALDERSON Poem Text First Line: It's nice to see it snow,' she said Last Line: "unparalleled security." Subject(s): Comfort; Rest; Snow; Winter CHANNEL-STANE, by JOHN USHER Poem Source First Line: Up! Curlers, up! Oor freen' john frost Subject(s): Sports; Winter CHANSON D'AUTOMNE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn wind wails thin, / like a sobbing violin Last Line: When the winter gusts begin to and fro Subject(s): Wind; Grief; Winter CHEER, by ANNYE LEWIS ALLISON Poem Text First Line: There is sleet and snow Last Line: And the fire on my hearth gleams red. Subject(s): Candles; Winter CHILD AND SNOW, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: Now sudenly from out the sky Last Line: Increase earth's beauty in great snow Subject(s): Winter CHILDISH JOYS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I went forth, on my ten toes, a snowball Last Line: "grist of pain."" and as I feebly tottered by, a snowball hit me in the eye." Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Snow; Winter; Childhood; Joy; Delight CHRISTMAS, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: The rills that winter-bound have been Last Line: Is smiling on the earth. Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Happiness; Holidays; Snow; Winter; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight CHRISTMAS HUNTER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With blare of horn and holloa Subject(s): Sports; Winter CHRISTMAS IN THE FOREST, by ALOYSIUS COLL Poem Source First Line: Softer than footfalls cushioned in the deep Subject(s): Sports; Winter CHRISTMAS MUSINGS; ADDRESSED TO INATHE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time flies apace - another year hath perished Last Line: Sweet as thy smile, and radiant as thine eyes! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Christmas; December; Holidays; Love; Winter; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS SILENCE, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Hushed are the pigeons cooing low Subject(s): Nature; Winter CIRCUMSCRIBED, by PAMELIA PEARL JONES Poem Text First Line: Sir winter is a bachelor Last Line: With roses at her sash! Subject(s): Winter CITY AFTER SNOWFALL, by JOSEPH M. DITTA Poem Source First Line: Some annoyances are trivial %and best forgot to smoothen your day Last Line: But the figure doesn't assuage %a mild vexation turned to rage Subject(s): Cities; Snow; Winter CLEAR AND COLDER; BOSTON COMMON, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I went down through the common Last Line: The pace of the winter town. Subject(s): Boston; Winter CLEAR JANUARY, ZERO DEGREES, MY LAST, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Day in that state's Last Line: Sunday morning light %about their white, white necks Subject(s): Fathers; Religion; Winter CLIPPER SEED, by EDWIN L. SABIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, for the winters that used to be! Subject(s): Sports; Winter CLOSING CEREMONIES FOR THE BICENTENNIAL (AFTER VIETNAM), by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a long fall, that particular Last Line: Outside of our reach, unwinding. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Death; Leaves; Snow; Winter; Dead, The COASTING DOWN THE HILL, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's a glory in the speeding of a horse Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will Subject(s): Sports; Winter COLD BLUE, by JOSIE KEARNS Poem Source First Line: It was that winter my sister and I Last Line: That cold blue had come into my life Subject(s): Winter COLD FINGER, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Mittenless, %a tree's long finger Last Line: Find the doorway %and - there's spring! Subject(s): Winter COLD MORNING, by JOSEPH M. DITTA Poem Source First Line: The bare limbs creaks %over the snow %and ice Last Line: Winter has set %a table with %the sun Subject(s): Winter COLLECT FOR COMPASSION, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: There in the rudest tree Last Line: To me with cup and crumb Subject(s): Winter COME HERE, LITTLE ROBIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Nature; Winter COME WINTER, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mad and homeless take shelter Subject(s): Winter COMMITTAL, by HELEN HARTNESS FLANDERS Poem Text First Line: A forest has small privacy Last Line: Tense in the dark of night. Subject(s): Winter COMPENSATION, by JOHN LANGDON JONES Poem Text First Line: No winter has there been whose raging cold Last Line: I can not hear the music that is thine. Subject(s): Children; Graves; Winter; Childhood; Tombs; Tombstones COMPENSATIONS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's goin' to be a chris'mas-tree next door! Last Line: Them upstarts know! Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Ice; Play; Snow; Winter; Childhood; Nativity, The CONFLUENCE, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: How the snow melts to keep this river flowing Last Line: The light of day on the other Subject(s): New England; Romance; Winter CONJECTURING A CLIMATE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nor eased -- of latitude Variant Title(s): Poem: 562; Poem: 55 Subject(s): Winter COUNTRY SLEIGHING (2), by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Push back the tables, and from the stables Subject(s): Sports; Winter COURAGE, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let the snow fly in my face. See how I shake it off! Let my Last Line: Wind and weather. If there be no god on earth, then we ourselves %must be gods! Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter CROW, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A crow has flown with me ever since I left the town Last Line: Crow, let me see at last what it means to be faithful %to the grave Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter CROWS, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hunch in the trees %to gossip Last Line: And snow sifts %down from the tree Subject(s): Aging; Birds; Crows; Night; Trees; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Winter CROWS, by MARLON OHNESORGE-FICK Poem Source First Line: Crows love midwitner mornings Last Line: So deep in me. The bitterness. %it's staggering Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Winter CUPID AND SWALLOWS FLYING FROM WINTER, BY DAGLEY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away, away, o'er land and sea Last Line: While the winter lords it here. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Winter CURLER'S ELEGY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When winter muffles up his cloak Subject(s): Sports; Winter CURLING SONG, by HENRY DUNCAN Poem Source First Line: The music o' the year is hush'd Subject(s): Sports; Winter CURLING SONG, by NORMAN+(2) MACLEOD Poem Source First Line: A' nicht it was freezin,' a' nicht I was Subject(s): Sports; Winter CYCLE, by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: Now, among familiar gulls and curlews Last Line: The effort of limbs pounding the air in panic Subject(s): Death; Dublin Bay, Ireland; Winter D'ANNE QUI LUY JECTA DE LA NEIGE, by CLEMENT MAROT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Anne par jeu me jecta de la neige Subject(s): Winter DAFYDD AP GWILYM RESENTS WINTER, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across north wales Last Line: Than the sea's graveyard. %when will rain come? Subject(s): Wales; Winter DAILIES: TOO MUCH POETRY NOT ENOUGH SNOW, by TIM DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I'll take mental heath refugee with Last Line: Now is the winter of our content Subject(s): Insanity; Winter DANCE OF THE MONTHS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The new year comes in with shout and laughter Subject(s): Nature; Winter DARK BAMBOOS, by CLIFFORD GESSLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dark bamboos against the sullen sky' Last Line: And dark bamboos against the sullen sky. Subject(s): Bamboo; Winter DARTMOUTH'S WINTER CAMPS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When we're crowdin' to the fireside up at Subject(s): Sports; Winter DAUGHTER OF THE SNOW, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though the panther's footprints show Subject(s): Sports; Winter DEAD OF WINTER, by SALVATORE QUASIMODO Poem Source First Line: Your clear hands call my name Last Line: And us, too, made of morning breeze Subject(s): Winter DEAREST M -, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In november when the days are short and dim Last Line: Is hazy as he looks out at the apple tree Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Winter; Dead, The; Bereavement DECEMBER, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more the scarlet maples flash and burn Last Line: Can even winter's crystal gems be spared. Subject(s): Winter DECEMBER, by WILLIAM CAULFIELD IRWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is bleak december noon Last Line: Of the dumb cold evening air. Subject(s): Abandonment; Cold; December; Snow; Winter; Desertion DECEMBER IN ARNOLD WOOD, by MERRILL MOORE Poem Text First Line: Now arnold wood lies white with snow Last Line: Out all the things to say. Subject(s): Snow; Winter DECEMBER NEWS, by JOHN+(1) CLARKE Poem Source First Line: It is late Last Line: And it is snow, first snow, %tapping its small canes Subject(s): December; Snow; Winter DECEMBER, OUTDOORS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds like fish shedding scales are stretched Subject(s): Winter; Nature DEEP WINTER, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A starling drops Subject(s): Winter DEJECTION, by GRACE E. ALBRIGHT Poem Text First Line: It is winter in my garden Last Line: Burial. Subject(s): Melancholy; Winter; Dejection DELUSION, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A friendly light dances before my eyes, enticing me this Last Line: Even delusion can be a blessing for one such as I Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter DEMOCRACY, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Politics & Government; Winter DESCENDANT FROM SNOW, by FOLKE ISAKSSON Poem Source First Line: I heard winter bees Last Line: Like a cold shot toward the sun Subject(s): Avalanches; Cold; Snow; Winter DESIRE IN WINTER, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With your white %that is almost blue Last Line: That will one day seem familiar Subject(s): Desire; Nostalgia; Winter DEVONSHIRE RHYME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Walk fast in snow Last Line: Sit by the fire and spare shoe leather Subject(s): Devonshire, England; Winter DID I SAY, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This time of year I kneel on my jacket. The ice Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Winter DID I SAY, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This time of year I kneel on my jacket. The ice Last Line: Too? Did I say I was winged and scattered? Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Winter DIRGE, by MARGARET BENGSTON SEVERNS Poem Text First Line: Green were the fields that are barren and gray Last Line: In love there is naught that is right but is wrong. Subject(s): Winter DISAPPOINTED SNOWFLAKES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Four and twenty snowflakes came tumbling from the sky Subject(s): Nature; Winter DOUBLE SPHERE, CLOVEN SPHERE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The black clouds swell up around the setting sun Last Line: Taking us over the horizon into atmosphere. Subject(s): Farewell; Love Affairs; Winter; Parting DR. DONNE AND GARGANTUA, SELS., by SACHEVERELL SITWELL Poet Analysis Subject(s): Winter DR. ZHIVAGO: WINTER NIGHT, by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A snowstorm made the earth tremble Last Line: Candle-flame upon a table, %only a candle-flame Subject(s): Winter DREAM DURING FIRST SNOW STORM, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: On this winter night a dream of susan Last Line: To a cold wind in the power lines Subject(s): Dreams; Snow; Winter DREAMS OF SPRING, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was dreaming of beautiful flowers-flowers the color of Last Line: Sweetheart in my arms? Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter EARLY LESSONS IN ELECTRICITY, by CAROL POTTER Poem Source First Line: Two feet of snow at the door, and the power gone three days Last Line: The dark field with her eyelids glowing Subject(s): Electricity; Home; Winter EARLY NIGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day was dead, with requiems of the wind Last Line: That shines for lovers, wheresoe'er they are. Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Moon; Night; Stars; Winter; World; Bedtime EARLY SNOW, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above the forest line Last Line: Divined the law of change. Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Seasons; Winter; Fall EARLY WINTER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brown grass, picked out with red of bushes, tones Last Line: For long-withholden loveliness of june. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; June; Winter ECLOGUE: FATHER COME HWOME, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mother, mother! Be the teaties done? Last Line: Zoo I shall goo up out o' the waÿ o' the waggon. Subject(s): Family Life; Farm Life; Fathers; Food & Eating; Homecoming; Winter; Relatives; Agriculture; Farmers ECLOGUES: WINTER, by ALEXANDER BARCLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The winter snowes, all covered is the grounde Last Line: If thou bide, faustus, thereof thou shalt have some Variant Title(s): Eclogue: Subject(s): Soccer; Winter ECSTASY, by FRANCES DELL MOORE Poem Text First Line: It's winter in the park today, and all Last Line: But it is springtime in my heart and ne'er was spring so sweet! Subject(s): Winter EDEN IN WINTER, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chant we the story now Last Line: Until the spring had come. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Winter EDGAR WILSON NYE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saddest silence falls when Last Line: Calling your love back to us laughingly. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Laughter; Silence; Winter; Dead, The EDGE, by CHARLOTTE FARRINGTON BABCOCK Poem Text First Line: The pond is cold, steel-blue, like the bright blade Last Line: We pierce the shadowy waters far below. Subject(s): Lakes; Winter; Pools; Ponds EFFETS DE NEIGE: IMPRESSIONISTS IN WINTER, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soaked as they were in the yellow light Last Line: Of winter, with a hundred icy shades %of arctic white Subject(s): Art And Artists; Winter ELEGY, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: It was there I went Last Line: Far among trees Subject(s): Winter ELEGY ON DEATH, SELS., by JOHN DONNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ravenous earth that now wooes her to be Subject(s): Winter END OF AUTUMN, by JULIO ORTEGA Poem Source First Line: The night falls between the hills as if they were real Last Line: And docility of another day -- always this fictitious moment Subject(s): Ohio; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Winter END OF DECEMBER, by JR. RALPH JOSEPH MILLS Poem Source Last Line: Flat with the grass Subject(s): Winter END OF MARCH, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: What does the white world know Last Line: The world begins all over again! Subject(s): March (month); Snow; Winter END OF WINTER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter ending in the last days of march. How many times Last Line: Moved by hunger. Subject(s): Nature; Winter END OF WINTER, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the still world, a bird calls Last Line: The one continuous line %that binds us to each other Subject(s): Relationships; Winter END OF WINTER, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: March, thin pane between in Last Line: Disappearing down the avenue into the rain. Subject(s): March (month); Rain; Spring; Winter EQUINOX, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: The horses leave, snows come Last Line: All the way to the fetlocks Subject(s): Winter ESCAPE FROM WINTER, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, had I the wings of a swallow, I'd fly Last Line: "no land is so lovely, when winter is o'er." Subject(s): Winter ETCHED IN FROST, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The corn is down Last Line: Makes merry within. Subject(s): Winter ETCHINGS: 1. COLD, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter...And still winter Last Line: Of the years! Subject(s): Cold; Hearts; Winter EUTHANASIA, by EDWARD WINSHIP Poem Text First Line: Beyond the far horizon, many - hilled Last Line: As weary winter lays him down to die? Subject(s): Death; Euthanasia; Life; Old Age; Winter; Dead, The EVENING IN JANUARY, by AGNES LOUISE HOVDE Poem Text First Line: The marsh lay spread with newly sifted snow Last Line: Numb with a need. Subject(s): Winter EX LIBRIS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the stream, where the ground is soft Last Line: No title, no name. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Cold; Earth; Seasons; Snow; Winter; World EYE OF THE COLD, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: First-time nome visitors see history Last Line: An impenetrable flux of culture and trash- %into winter's dark mirror of gold Subject(s): Cold; Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Tourists; Travel; Winter FABLE, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I led him on into the frosted wood Last Line: "I'm numb, I'm going home,"" he said." Subject(s): Fables; Unicorns; Winter; Allegories FAIR HAVEN (2), by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When winter fringes every bough Last Line: Along the forest path. Subject(s): Sanctuaries; Winter FAIRBANKS UNDER THE SOLSTICE, by JOHN HAINES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly, without sun, the day sinks Last Line: Word of the resurrection of silence. Subject(s): Death, Return From; December; Frost; Winter FAITH, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: If on this night of still, white cold Last Line: And immortality. Subject(s): Faith; Seasons; Spring; Winter; Belief; Creed FAR BACK, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: In one %of the valleys %of the whitewater Last Line: Deep %in winter %myself %I live on Subject(s): Cold; Solitude; Winter FARMHOUSE IN THE LANDSCAPE, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Seems like all rooms return to the kitchen, Last Line: I have to listen for my life %very carefully. Subject(s): Houses; Noises; Winter FARTHER NORTH, by DEVON MILLER-DUGGAN Poem Source First Line: Except for the ice in the air as snow or fog or simple cold Last Line: Writing on your face and throat, your thumbnails curling in around themselves Subject(s): Cold; Winter FEBRUARY, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter. Time to eat fat Subject(s): Winter; Cats; Food & Eating FEBRUARY, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The park hangs on to what keeps growing Last Line: To the end feel like %becoming? Subject(s): Arabs; February; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Snow; Winter FEBRUARY, by IRA SADOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mist appalls the windshield. Subject(s): Faces; Winter FEBRUARY, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A chimney, breathing a little smoke Subject(s): Winter; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FEBRUARY, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: Night approaching perfection Last Line: Certain movements and shadows Subject(s): Exiles; Winter FEBRUARY EVENING IN NEW YORK, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the stores close, a winter light Subject(s): New York City; Evening; Winter; Aging; Conduct Of Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Sunset; Twilight FEBRUARY MORNING, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old man takes a nap Last Line: The snow falls all day long. Subject(s): Books; February; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Morning; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Winter; Reading FEBRUARY MORNING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thankful was I to be there Last Line: First buds of willow. Subject(s): February; Morning; Nature; Winter FEBRUARY SUITE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Song, / angry bush Last Line: A long year has gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory; Seasons; Time; Winter FERRY FOR SHADOWTOWN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sway to and fro in the twilight gray Subject(s): Nature; Winter FIFTY YEARS APART, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They sit in the winter gloaming Last Line: But only the end is rest Subject(s): Winter FINDING COLOR, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Snow %is so %white Last Line: Just waiting for %the toasting light Subject(s): Winter FIRST FRUIT, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not pluck at all Last Line: O, shut hands, be empty another year. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Winter FIRST SNOW, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Fresh snow, first snow Last Line: Let the snow come down hard Subject(s): Cold; December; Seasons; Snow; Winter FIRST SNOW OF NOVEMBER, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: The clarity %makes me feel peaceful Last Line: That I will no longer have to curse, %each year %the impetuous coming %of the first snow %of novembe Subject(s): Love; Peace; Winter FIRST STORMS, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: The snow comes too soon Last Line: From its dark, close room Subject(s): Snow; Storms; Winter FISHERIES SCIENTIST SIGHTS A LARGE SCHOOL OF MYTH SWIMMING IN..., by PETER MUNRO Poem Source First Line: I cut the outboard %silence opens out Last Line: The sudden strike flashed out of nowhere %and I am caught Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Mythology; Water; Winter FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLE BEE'S MAGIC, by BARBARA SCHMITT WHITNEY Poem Text First Line: Summer slipped to us in the chill december Last Line: Winter had vanished! Subject(s): December; Summer; Winter FLIT, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: = Subject(s): Chickadees; Winter FLOODWATERS, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Streams of tears have fallen from my eyes into the snow Last Line: Where you feel my tears begin to burn will be my %sweetheart's house Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter FLOWERS IN WINTER; PAINTED UPON A PORTE LIVRE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How strange to greet, this frosty morn Last Line: Her darlings of the wood. Subject(s): Flowers; Winter FLOWERTIME WEATHER, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you and I are together Last Line: It is everywhere winter to me. Subject(s): Absence; Cold; Winter; Separation; Isolation FOG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What is the fog, mamma? Subject(s): Nature; Winter FOLKS AT LONESOMEVILLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pore-folks lives at lonesomeville Last Line: Goes to lonesomeville! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Poverty; Santa Claus; Winter; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint FOOTPRINTS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: The long white universe of snow Last Line: Though still it's unidentified Subject(s): Winter FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 6. SPRING DELAYED, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O why do you tarry so long, spring? Last Line: The breath and the raiment of god! Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Spring; Winter FOR HOKEY AND HENRIETTA, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now it is midsummer and the long sun shines Last Line: Than years unpredicted as weather, and days %adventurous as a lobby full of bears? Subject(s): Winter FOR THE NIGHT TO WEAR, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: For the twilight, the wet snow Last Line: The polar wind. Subject(s): Snow; Wind; Winter FOREST PATH IN WINTER, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Along this secret and forgotten road Subject(s): Sports; Winter FORTIFICATION, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI Poem Text First Line: When first we left the cool, enshadowed mountains Last Line: Shall hearten us, this winter of disaster. Subject(s): Nature; Winter FOUR QUARTETS: LITTLE GIDDING (1-5 COMPLETE), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midwinter spring is its own season Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Variant Title(s): Little Gidding Subject(s): Flowers; History; Perseverance; Roses; Self; Time; Winter; Historians FOUR QUARTETS: LITTLE GIDDING (1-5 COMPLETE), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midwinter spring is its own season Last Line: Into the crowded knot of fire %and the fire and the rose are one Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Variant Title(s): Little Giddin Subject(s): Flowers; History; Perseverance; Roses; Self; Time; Winter FOUR SONGS OF FOUR SEASONS: 1. WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the garden Last Line: Praise him whose hand is the strength of the sea. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Singing & Singers; Winter FOUR ZOAS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the aged mother which shook the heavens with wrath Last Line: The dark relisions are departed and sweet science reigns Variant Title(s): Vala, Or The Four Zoas, Sels Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter FOX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who / can blame her for hunkering Last Line: Not feeding, not being fed? Subject(s): Foxes; Hunger; Winter FOX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who %can blame her for hunkering Last Line: Not feeding, not being fed? Subject(s): Foxes; Hunger; Winter FRESH SNOW, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: Snow rolls off the roof Last Line: That stun you like rum Subject(s): Snow; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Winter FROM MY WINDOW, by ELNA L. VON PINGEL Poem Text Last Line: Clinging where they rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Rasmussen, Elna Subject(s): Snow; Winter FROST, by FLOYD SKLOOT Poem Source First Line: Wizened, spoiling for a fight, frost is here Last Line: Around the twist of winter on the wind Subject(s): Frost; Winter FROST FLOWERS, by LOUIS JENKINS Poem Source First Line: In the morning people go off to work all wrapped and bundled, through Last Line: Blossoms open around us all night Subject(s): Cold; Frost; Ice; Winter FROST PANE, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What's the good of breathing Last Line: In %winter Subject(s): Winter FROST SONG, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the bee slept and the orchis lifted Last Line: Kind winter flings her flowers and her stars. Subject(s): Winter FROST-WORK, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These winter nights, against my window-pane Last Line: In azure, damask, emerald, and gold. Subject(s): Winter FROSTED TREES, by CASTLE CRAIN Poem Text First Line: At night I lingered at my window Last Line: But I knew god had heard my prayer. Subject(s): Frost; Winter FROSTY SHADOWS, by PEARL POTTER ETZ Poem Text First Line: When peeping o'er the east's gray brink Last Line: Splashed green on winter's white. Subject(s): Frost; Sun; Winter FROZEN IN, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ours are the only mouths Subject(s): Winter FROZEN TEARS, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Frozen tears fall from my cheeks. How could I not have Last Line: Glowing hot, as if you were intent on melting all the ice of winter! Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter FUNERAL SONG, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Urns and odours bring away Subject(s): Winter FUR KING, by SAMUEL MATHEWSON BAYLIS Poem Source First Line: My kingdom by the frozen sea Subject(s): Fur Trade; Sports; Winter GARDEN DREAMS, by ANNE MURRY MOVIUS Poem Text First Line: Moonlight rests white fingers Last Line: Long hidden from our sight. Subject(s): Winter GARDEN IN WINTER, by DOROTHY WHITEHEAD HOUGH Poem Text First Line: My garden is all put to bed for the winter Last Line: For another season of blooming. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Winter GATHER ROUND, ALL YE GOOD MEN, by SAMUEL MATHEWSON BAYLIS Poem Source First Line: Parched 'mid the dust of the hot summer's Subject(s): Sports; Winter GATHERING WOOD FOR THE WINTER, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The soft rasp of a bow saw Last Line: Like split loaves of fresh bread Subject(s): Cold; Fireplaces; Winter; Wood GEORGICS: SCYTHIAN WINTERS, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In scythia's realms, no herbage on the fields Last Line: And icicles hang rigid from their beards Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Winter GETTING UP, by TOM HANSEN Poem Source First Line: The boy who fell from the tallest tree in the woods Last Line: All spring on the ground of begining %he rises and falls Subject(s): Boys; Winter GHAZAL 4, by JOHN FALK Poem Source First Line: Newsprint grey in the sog of snow Last Line: The garden can now drift to rest Subject(s): Winter; Wood GIVE PLACE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Starry crowns of heaven Last Line: Waits to fill your place! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Nature; Stars; Winter GLEAMS IN THE SNOW LANE, by DONALD REVELL Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Around the mountain over there %also the radio reports ice Subject(s): Automobiles; Ice; Roads; Winter GLOWING EMBERS ILLUMINATE THE SNOW, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm mired again in the horsehsoe-shaped valley Last Line: A log's glowing embers illuminate the snow Subject(s): Danube (river); Snow; Winter GO, WINTER!, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, winter! Go thy ways! We Last Line: In her first marigold. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Summer; Winter GOD'S WEATHER: DECEMBER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The dusk of the evening, with winter stars growing Last Line: We wait with the stars thro' his weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Weather; Winter GOD'S WEATHER: JANUARY, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Up the whitening blue, as the day-star grows dimmer Last Line: Whip out a mad peal to just weathergod's weather. Subject(s): Months; Snow; Time; Weather; Winter GOOD HOURS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had for my winter evening walk Last Line: At ten o'clock of a winter eve. Subject(s): Evening; Winter; Walking; Sunset; Twilight GOOD NIGHT, by SYDNEY DAYRE Poem Source First Line: Good night, pretty sun, good night! Subject(s): Nature; Winter GOOD NIGHT, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I cam as a stranger; as a stranger now I leave Last Line: Good night,' to let you know I thought of you Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter GRANDMOTHER POEM #1: SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY, by SEAN HILL Poem Source First Line: In the cold winter months ice'd sike up from red clay Last Line: Don't have no cold weather now - think it's a warning? Subject(s): Cold; Grandparents; Schools; Winter GREAT PLAINS IN WINTER, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Great Plains (united States); Winter GREEK SPRING; MARCH, ATHENS, 1913, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rainbows, rainbows! O fantastic vision Last Line: Or is it the snows again? Subject(s): Greece; Hope; Rainbows; Spring; Winter; Greeks; Optimism GREY-HAIRED DECEMBER, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to thee, hail to thee, summer day sun Last Line: No nectar so rich as the wassail-bowl flip. Subject(s): Winter GUDE GAUN GAME O' CURLIN', by JAMES A. SIDEY Poem Source First Line: Cheer up, my lads, for auld john frost Alternate Author Name(s): Sidney, James A. Subject(s): Sports; Winter HACHI NO KI, SELS., by SEAMI MOTOKIYO Subject(s): Winter HAIKU, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No talent Last Line: A winter day Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Winter HAIKU, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the end of the nose Last Line: Hang icicles Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Winter HAIKU, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pissing in the snow Last Line: It makes a very straight hole Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Winter HAIKU, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First snow Last Line: On a half-finished bridge Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Winter HAIKU, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A snowy morning Last Line: Chewing on dried salmon Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Winter HAIKU, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Winter solitude Last Line: The sound of wind Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Solitude; Winter HAIKU, by YOSA BUSON Poem Source First Line: Straw sandal half sunk Last Line: In the sleety snow Alternate Author Name(s): Buson; Taniguchi Buson Subject(s): Winter HAIKU, by YOSA BUSON Poem Source First Line: Blow of an axe Last Line: The winter woods Alternate Author Name(s): Buson; Taniguchi Buson Subject(s): Forests; Winter HAIKU, by YOSA BUSON Poem Source First Line: A tethered horse Last Line: In both stirrups Alternate Author Name(s): Buson; Taniguchi Buson Subject(s): Winter HALF ROUNDED, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I make no prayer Last Line: Consuming up and down Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Cold; November; Roundels; Winter HANOVER WINTER SONG, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, a song by the fire! Last Line: Skoal! Variant Title(s): Dartmouth Winter Song Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Sports; Winter HARVEST END, by CALEDFRYN Poem Source First Line: The seasons fly Last Line: With a rush we come %to winter in the grave Subject(s): Winter HAYLL, COMLY AND CLENE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Winter HAYLL, DERLYNG DERE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Winter HAYLL, SUFFERAN SAVYOURE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Winter HEDGES IN WINTER, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every year they have driven stake after stake after stake Subject(s): Winter; Hedges HELP ONE ANOTHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Nature; Winter HEMLOCK AND CEDAR, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thin sheets of blue smoke among white slabs Last Line: Mill to the ridge of hemlock and cedar. Subject(s): Winter HER HEART BREADS SILENCE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Because that thou art pale and cold and still Last Line: His holiest honour in this faithful breast! Subject(s): Knowledge; Love; Pain; Secrets; Winter; Suffering; Misery HERALD SQUARE, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who have felt the pressure and made good Last Line: God's sheet moves on. You would not change your places. Subject(s): Herald Square, New York City; Hunger; Winter HERONS IN WINTER IN THE FROZEN MARSH, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All winter / two blue herons Subject(s): Herons; Winter HIDDEN LIFE, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: Sleep on field and forest Last Line: In spring! Subject(s): Winter HIS CHRISTMAS SLED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch him with his christmas Last Line: All glad things overtake you! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Winter; Childhood; Nativity, The HOAR-FROST, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: The wee folk, the fairy folk, have shaken out their laces Last Line: And fairies' lacy petticoats all hanging out to air. Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Seasons; Winter HOARFROST, by STELLA PFEIFFER BAISCH Poem Text First Line: Pale, winter sunshine falls aslant Last Line: In fairy beauty of design. Subject(s): Winter HOARFROST AND FOG, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: I walk six blocks to the park. Last Line: The snow is nearly up to her knees. %I breathe, and I breathe, and I breathe. Subject(s): Snow; Weather; Winter HOCKEY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When you hack a fellow's shin Subject(s): Sports; Winter HOJOKI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Venus in the pale green sky Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter; Fall HOJOKI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Venus in the pale green sky Last Line: Busy all night long tonight Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter HOLLY, by SUSAN HARTLEY Poem Source First Line: Not one pretty flower would stay Subject(s): Nature; Winter HOODOO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Owned a pair o' skates onc't Last Line: And crick - tail-race - all together, %froze so tight, cat couldn't scratch Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sports; Winter HOPE, by HORTENSE DRUCKER WAGAR Poem Text First Line: Have you wished for summer sun Last Line: Takes the place of that which dies. Subject(s): Hope; Winter; Optimism HORUS, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The god kneph, trembling, rocked the universe Last Line: And the heavens streamed radiant from the scarf of iris. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Winter HORUS, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Le dieu kneph en tremblant ebranlait l'univers Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Winter HOT CAKE, by SHU HSI Poem Source First Line: Winter has come, fierce is the cold Subject(s): Winter HOUSE IN WINTER, by ERIC ORMSBY Poem Source First Line: Winter sweetens my house with its fragrance Last Line: Treasure your moment in this winter-gentled house! Subject(s): Houses; Smells; Winter HOUSE OF CARDS, by JULIE BUCHSBAUM Poem Source First Line: I suppose we were dis Last Line: Danced with the fervor, %that night, of orphans Subject(s): Winter HOUSE-FREE, by EDITH LOMBARD SQUIRES Poem Text First Line: Now the days shorten, the autumn is gone Last Line: I will go house-free and countrywide! Subject(s): Houses; Winter HOW ONE WINTER CAME IN THE LAKE REGION, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For weeks and weeks the autumn world stood still Last Line: Fast fell the driving snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Subject(s): Lakes; Winter; Pools; Ponds HUNGER OF THE LEMUR, by MATT ROHRER Poem Source First Line: On a hill he had climbed all winter Last Line: These are only the slimy bones of trees, %not trees Subject(s): Animals; Hunger; Winter HUNGRY HOUNDS OF WINTER, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: The hounds of winter now are here, they bare Last Line: You blast frail life, with black and certain death. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Winter HUNTERS, by ERNEST THOMPSON SETON Poem Source First Line: The white owl sits on a low snowdrift Subject(s): Sports; Winter HURDY-GURDY PLAYER, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just beyond the village is a hurdy-gurdy player. His Last Line: Strange old man, shall I go with you? Will you grind your %organ to my songs? Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter HURRAH FOR THE FLAG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There are many flags in many lands Subject(s): Nature; Winter I DO! DON'T YOU?, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer,' said the humming bee Last Line: "I like winter bestdon't you?" Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Winter; Childhood; Nativity, The ICE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No one this far south chances ice Last Line: And the lottery began. Subject(s): Drowning; Fear; Lakes; Winter; Pools; Ponds ICE, by AGNES NEMES NAGY Poem Source First Line: The world slowly freezes inside me Last Line: And glisten like fish Subject(s): Winter ICE, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When winter scourged the meadow and the hill Last Line: Wherein to sit and watch the fury pass. Subject(s): Ice; Nature; Winter ICE, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: Such as had an interest Last Line: And the fishes saw a well in the sun Subject(s): Ice; Snow; Winter ICE FISHING, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From open water at the lake's Last Line: By the blood-freckled cheek of the evening snow Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Winter ICE KING SLEEPS WITH HIS BRIDE, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: They lie in an embrace Last Line: That will contract %the world in pain Subject(s): Cold; Marriage; Winter ICE MELTING, OTSEGO LAKE, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Some things wait Last Line: Like a stand of birch trees quickening %in this good cold Subject(s): Cold; Silence; Winter ICE STORM, by UNA W. HARSEN Poem Text First Line: Winter is in no happy mood today Last Line: To build a wondrous fairyland of ice. Subject(s): Ice; Storms; Winter ICE WITCHERIES, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: Shingled in light and tipped with fire Last Line: To shattered crystal on the grasses. Subject(s): Crystallization; Ice; Physics; Winter ICE-FISHING IN WINTER, by JOHN HARRINGTON KEENE Poem Source First Line: Ho! Sing of your trout in the spring betimes Subject(s): Sports; Winter ICEBERGS, by ROGER BLAKELY Poem Source First Line: After a winter of cold nor'easters, summer halts at a threshold forty Last Line: Flown off the night before Subject(s): Antarctica; Ice; Winter ICEBOAT, by ALICE WARD BAILEY Poem Source First Line: There is a thing so fair, so free Subject(s): Sports; Winter ICEBOUND, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Nine below and each window's Last Line: And the perceptible chill invades Subject(s): Cold; Death; Ice; Snow; Winter IF, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt what thou art, and what thou wouldst be, let Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Life; Love; Winter; Nightmares IF YOU WERE HERE; A SONG IN WINTER, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love, if you were here Last Line: Of all our days that were. Subject(s): Winter IMPATIENCE, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: April / seems so far away Last Line: Of my heart? Subject(s): Waiting; Winter IMPRESSION DU MATIN, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thames nocturne of blue and gold Last Line: With lips of flame and heart of stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Prostitution; Thames (river); Winter; Harlots; Whores; Brothels IMPRESSIONS FROM A PRAIRIE WINDOW: WINTER SCENE, by LILLIAN SAVOIE HAHN Poem Text First Line: Snow crystals swirl through frosty air Last Line: And still. Subject(s): Winter IMPROMPTU ON MRS. RIDDEL'S BIRTHDAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old winter, with his frosty beard Last Line: And winter once rejoiced in glory. Subject(s): Birthdays; Winter IMPROMTU ON WINTER, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O winter, what a deadly foe Last Line: Kind autumn too, so liberal and so free %brings my old well-known present - poverty Subject(s): Winter IN DEAD WINTER, by JOSEPH M. DITTA Poem Source First Line: In dead winter winter's grip loosens Last Line: Life itself cares for what it lives in Subject(s): Sickness; Winter IN JANUARY, 1962, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With his hat on the table before him Last Line: Near the soft gray felt hat on the table Subject(s): Grandparents; Death; Winter; Country Life; Old Age IN LATE WINTER, by THOMAS R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: The frozen lake never loses its patience Last Line: With summer. The watery twin comes nearer Subject(s): Nature; Winter IN LIMBO, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: This past winter turkey buzzards, vultures Last Line: Have been told it meant, wary of anything like joy Subject(s): Snow; War; Winter IN MY MOUNTAIN HAMLET, by MINAMOTO NO MUNEYUKI Poem Source Last Line: And forlorn, for man %and grass both wither Subject(s): Winter IN SNOW TIME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How should I choose to walk the world with thee Last Line: But let me walk beside thee in its snow Subject(s): Snow;winter IN THE CLEAR COLD, by SERGEY ALEXANDROVICH YESENIN Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: In the clear cold the dales grow blue and tremble Last Line: In their white waters washes his blue toes. Alternate Author Name(s): Yesenin, Sergei Subject(s): Cold; Winter IN THE EVENINGS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go through my rooms Last Line: Like a ghost Subject(s): Cold; Evening; Ghosts; Poverty; Supernatural; Winter; Sunset; Twilight IN THE EVENINGS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go through my rooms Last Line: Shaking locks in the night %like a ghost Subject(s): Cold; Evening; Ghosts; Poverty; Supernatural; Winter IN THE GUTTER, by ANDREW FELD Poem Source First Line: Having outstayed her month, miss november Last Line: Another mouth, another way of speaking. It's not Subject(s): Time; Winter IN THE HELLGATE WIND, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: January ice drifts downriver Last Line: As the river I cross over. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Change; West (u.s.); Winter; Women; Southwest; Pacific States IN THE MIDNIGHT, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A splash on the dusky water Last Line: Crossing the great divide! Subject(s): Death; Winter; Dead, The IN THE STILLNESS O' THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ov all the housen o' the pleace Last Line: In the stillness o' the night. Subject(s): Love; Night; Walking; Winter; Bedtime IN THE VILLAGE, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dogs are barking, rattling their chains. People are sleeping Last Line: I am finished with dreaming. Why should I tarry with %those who are slumbering? Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter IN WINTER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The cold, ice-sucking wind has gone Last Line: At this fine winter's day. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Winter IN WINTER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to go back to the days of june Last Line: Under the wintry skies to marry? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Winter IN WINTER, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Winter; Love - Loss Of IN WINTER, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale from the watery west, with the pallor of winter a-cold Last Line: As I wait for my love in the fir-tree alley alone with the sun. Subject(s): Winter IN WINTER TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winter time is extra nice Last Line: We put him first, in case we bump. Subject(s): Children; Play; Winter; Childhood IN WINTER, DON'T EVER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To someone cold Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Tongues; Winter IN WINTRY WEATHER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, in wintry weather Last Line: We crept so close together? Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Winter IN WIRY WINTER, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow of a bird Subject(s): Winter; Birds INN, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My path has led me to a graveyard Last Line: Then we must trudge on, my faithful walking staff and I Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter INTO DEATH BRAVELY, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter/throws his great white shield Subject(s): Winter; Death; Dead, The IOWA & OTHER ACCIDENTS, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: There was snow that afternoon covering the road Last Line: Always there about to happen Subject(s): Accidents; Iowa; Middle West; Winter IRON BRIGADE HIGHWAY, by MARTHA MODENA VERTREACE Poem Source First Line: Old folks say snow days are for making love Last Line: Yes, if I had to, yes I would %yes I could choose you again Subject(s): Snow; Winter IT BLOWS A SNOWING GALE IN THE WINTER OF THE YEAR, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The passion of the gale. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Winter; Storms IT SNOWS AND IT BLOWS, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It snows and it blows, it is cold, stormy / weather Last Line: For it snows, etc. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Sky; Snow; Storms; Weather; Winter IT SNOWS! IT SNOWS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It snows! Yes, it snows! And the children are wild Subject(s): Nature; Winter IT'S 65 BELOW, by WINIFRED S. MACDONALD Poem Text First Line: The trees are draped with icicles Last Line: At 65 below! Subject(s): Winter JACK FROST, by THOMAS NICOLL HEPBURN Poem Text First Line: The door was shut, as doors should be Last Line: The lovely things you saw in dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Setoun, Gabriel Subject(s): Winter JACK FROST, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Ho! Ancient friend and honest peddler, jack Last Line: Of boys snowballing on the village green! Subject(s): Frost; Snow; Winter JACK FROST (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Some one has been in the garden Subject(s): Nature; Winter JACK FROST AND THE CATY-DID, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard - 'twas on an autumn night Last Line: To fan her wakeless dream. Subject(s): Crickets; Winter JACK FROST AT BEDTIME, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Angels is a-mindin' you, my baby Last Line: Picturs on de winder wid his bref. Subject(s): Winter JACK FROST IN MARCH, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How changeable the children grow Last Line: "and let dear spring come to the sky!" Subject(s): Children; March (month); Winter; Childhood JANUARY, by ELIZABETH S. ADCOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk and snow this hour Last Line: The stunning chaos of the world Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Betty Subject(s): January; Winter JANUARY, by MARGARET COTTER FERGUSON Poem Text First Line: A pale moon was watching 'jack frost' paint the trees Last Line: On the bosom of earth. Subject(s): January; Winter JANUARY, by WELDON KEES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning: blue, cold and still Last Line: Sleep is too short a death Subject(s): Winter; Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids JANUARY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the leaden skies Last Line: All the livelong day. Subject(s): January; Winter JANUARY 1, 1829, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter is come again. The sweet south-west Last Line: That winter with the dying year should come! Subject(s): Winter JANUARY NIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In front of me on my desk Last Line: And climb towards the sun Subject(s): January; Night; Seashore; Storms; Winter; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore JANUARY NIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In front of me on my desk Last Line: And climb towards the sun Subject(s): January; Night; Seashore; Storms; Winter JANUARY THAW, by KATE CRICHTON GREDLER Poem Text First Line: It was not for these days of searching cold Last Line: Above my heart until an april morn. Subject(s): Winter JANUARY THAW, by EDNA DOW NORTHEND Poem Text First Line: Pale fog, with sunshine showing through Last Line: So that I may wander where only fog can go. Subject(s): January; Winter JANUARY, 1795, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pavement slippery, people sneezing Last Line: Candour spurned, and art rewarded. Subject(s): Winter JEREMY JOY, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Red winter, with a sigh and shrug Last Line: When jeremy joy was singing! Subject(s): Winter; Yorkshire, England JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 52. WINTER SKETCHES, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that black ground and bushes Subject(s): Winter; Snow; New York City; Subways; Landscape; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple JINGLE BELLS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Dashing thro' the snow Subject(s): Sports; Winter JOLLY CURLERS, by JAMES HOGG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of a' the games that e'er I saw Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick Subject(s): Sports; Winter JUBILATE AGNO: MY CAT JEOFFREY, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I will consider my cat jeoffrey Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Winter JUBILATE AGNO: MY CAT JEOFFREY, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I will consider my cat jeoffrey Last Line: For he can creep Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Winter KIARTAN THE ICELANDER: DEDICATION TO F. H., by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When at one winter's end our boy looked forth Last Line: Fit for the world's one angel, love himself! Subject(s): Angels; Love; Voices; Winter KILLING THE WINTER WAS OUR CAUSE, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Killing the winter was our cause, Last Line: The mistral in our veins. Subject(s): Love; Winter KIMONO-MAKER CONTEMPLATES ICE, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: One dawn ice appears Last Line: Summer kimono %he knows Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers; Ice; Winter KIND OF CATASTROPHE, by RACHEL ZUCKER Poem Source First Line: About this snow I'd say Last Line: You're different-here -- (I never imagined) %three winters later Subject(s): Winter KINDLY WINTER, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The snow lies deep upon the ground Last Line: The friend and father of the year. Subject(s): Winter LADDER FROZEN AGAINST THE SHED, by JAN WEISSMILLER Poem Source First Line: The word is 'february', %a few dry leaves, the trees Last Line: Whole globe plucked from its%- one of its - courses Subject(s): February; Winter LADY OF SNOWS, by C. N. BUZZARD Poem Source First Line: Ghostly, etheral, mystical form! Subject(s): Sports; Winter LAMENT, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: A dead rabbit with Last Line: Into what hands? Subject(s): Winter LASH OF THE NORTHLAND, by ANDREW F. UNDERHILL Poem Source First Line: Where the rafters of the world-roof fade Subject(s): Sports; Winter LAST HOPE, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here and there colored leaves can be seen on the trees Last Line: I myself sink to the ground and weep on the tomb of %my hope Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter LAST HOURS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gray day and quiet Last Line: Slowly pass. Subject(s): Winter LATE AFTERNOON, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh see the gorgeous warring clouds Last Line: And other things I can't name I can't %be held responsible for Subject(s): Relationships; Winter LATE FEBRUARY, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The first warm day, Subject(s): Country Life; Winter LATE JANUARY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The elms' silhouettes Last Line: Time's sharp edge is slitting another envelope Subject(s): Winter LATE JANUARY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The elms' silhouettes Last Line: Time's sharp edge is slitting %another envelope Subject(s): Winter LATE WINTER RAMBLE IN ZASYEKA FOREST, by JAY PARINI Poem Source First Line: The woods in winter fill with birds Subject(s): Forests; Winter LENINGRAD SYMPHONY, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: The theater's swollen and static with winter Last Line: How soon will the war end? Will it end %soon? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; War; Winter LES SEPT VIELLARDS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fourmillante cite, cite pleine de reves Subject(s): Winter LETTER TO JOSEPH WARREN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter has beaten summer in fight Last Line: Her ruined city with salt. Subject(s): Winter LI FU-JEN, by WU-TI (157 B.C.- 87 B.C.) Poem Text First Line: The sound of her silk skirt has stopped Last Line: How slow she comes! Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Love - Loss Of; Winter LIKE BROOMS OF STEEL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Was all the one that played Subject(s): Winter LIKE SHOWER OVER THE HEART..., by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: It shall never, happy soul, winter Subject(s): Winter LILAC TIME, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winter was fierce, my dear Last Line: Will make me form-I-dable. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; Old Age; Seasons; Winter LINDEN TREE, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A linden tree grows by the well at the gate Last Line: You would have found repose there' Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter LINES ADDRESSED TO A WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUM, PRESENTED TO THE WRITER, by ANNA PEYRE DINNIES Poem Text First Line: Fair gift of friendship, and her ever bright Last Line: Thou bloom'st the fairest 'mid the frosts of life. Alternate Author Name(s): Shackleford, Anna Peyre Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Winter LINES FOR WINTER, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Tell yourself / as it gets cold and gray falls from the air Subject(s): Winter; Self-love LINES ON THE WINTER SOLSTICE, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A day of creaks and croaking! Ice in the skylight, Last Line: The branches shake, and a half-eaten apple plops %into the kindling pile: if only you were here. Subject(s): Nature; Weather; Winter LINES PLACED OVER A CHIMNEY-PIECE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surly winter, come not here Last Line: And thaw the winter in the soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Chimney Sweepers & Chimneys; Winter LITE PENDENTE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The leaves lie dead about my feet Last Line: Or art thou, as thou seemest, dead? Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness LITTLE ARTIST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, there is a little artist Subject(s): Nature; Winter LITTLE PINE-TREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Once a little pine-tree Subject(s): Nature; Winter LITTLE SHIPS IN THE AIR, by EDWARD AUGUSTIUS RAND Poem Source First Line: Flakes of snow, with sails so white Subject(s): Nature; Snow; Winter LITTLE SNOWFLAKES, by M. M. Poem Source First Line: The snowflakes fall so gently Subject(s): Nature; Winter LITTLE SNOWFLAKES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Still and gentle all around Subject(s): Nature; Winter LIVING IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE - I (WINTER), by CAROL ANN DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Light shrinks daily Last Line: In the ever-present snow the dictionary %on my lap unopened useless Subject(s): Language; Winter LIVING IN THE EARTHQUAKE ZONE, by ANTONY CHRISTIE Poem Source First Line: The house is stone and mortar Last Line: Your face blurred and bloody %through the ice window Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Houses; Winter LOCOMOTIVE, by MILLICENT SHINE Poem Text First Line: Snow hushed the earth: awhile Last Line: We went shuffling on through the snow. Subject(s): Locomotives; Winter LONELINESS, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like a dark cloud drifting across a clear sky as a tired gust Last Line: Even the raging storms did not rain upon me the misery %that I feel now Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter LONG SNOW, by ALEXANDRA THURMAN Poem Source First Line: I wanted something cool inside my mouth. Something cold Last Line: Cool as celery, but summer, just the same Subject(s): Cold; Snow; Winter LOOKING EAST IN THE WINTER, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walk on sixty-ninth street toward Last Line: Alights in some dark in-between Subject(s): Winter LOST SPIRITS, by H. GANDY Poem Source First Line: That gnomes abound on mountains, sad Subject(s): Sports; Winter LOST TRAIL, by FRANK LILLIE POLLOCK Poem Source First Line: While the drizzle falls on the slimy Subject(s): Sports; Winter LOUISE SIGHS, SUCH A LONG WINTER, THIS, by MARY JO BANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stone basin, stone breath, stone bric-a-brac Subject(s): Parties; Winter LOUISE SIGHS, SUCH A LONG WINTER, THIS, by MARY JO BANG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stone basin, stone breath, stone bric-a-brac Last Line: The five fluid ounce flask has gone missing Subject(s): Parties; Winter LOVE IN WINTER, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the berried holly-bush Last Line: "when love can warm a winter's day?""'" Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Love; Winter LOVE/SNOW, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When people say they love me I tell them/I wish I could stop thinking of robert Last Line: Give me a loaf of bread -- I loaf you!/frost whenever it snows Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Frost; Grief; Loss; Puns; Winter LOVELY MONOCHROMES OF WINTER, by KAREN L. ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Then comes the talking easily reconstructed then Last Line: -ungainly lives at best well-put savagery %at worst the visible bone the disappearing Subject(s): Relationships; Seasons; Solitude; Winter LUGGIE, SELS., by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now underneath the ice the luggie growls Subject(s): Sports; Winter LULLABY IN JANUARY, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bravely (it seems to me) you Subject(s): Winter; Sleep; Birthdays LUND, ONE WINTER NIGHT, by INGEMAR LECKIUS Poem Source First Line: In our district suddenly a naked scream Last Line: Kyrie eleison Subject(s): Winter LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 53, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lies the glow of summer Last Line: The summer in thy breast! Subject(s): Love; Summer; Winter MAGIC, by MARIE TODD Poem Text First Line: A candle blooms upon the sill Last Line: There's may upon my window ledge. Subject(s): May (month); Nature; Seasons; Winter MAGNOLIA SHOALS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up here among the gull cries Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Winter MAIL, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you leap up, my heart, at the sound of the Last Line: You want to take a look over there and see how she is, %don't you? Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter MALAISE, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bad news knows no boundaries Last Line: From [or, for] which to survive such falls Subject(s): Survival; Winter MANSHAPE, THAT SHONE, FR. THAT NATURE IS A HERACLITEAN ..., by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Winter MAP FOR LONG DISTANCES, by ELEONORE SCHONMAIER Poem Source First Line: It is all sharp edges and heated Last Line: Breeze pushes loose %the tangled winter days Subject(s): Maps; Travel; Winter MAPLE, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gray squirrels, fall-fat, having Last Line: Naked you wouldn't believe it survives Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Maple Trees; Squirrels; Winter MARCH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A sodden gray in the chilly dawn Last Line: And this is march Subject(s): Cold;march (month);seasons;spring;winter MARCH, by BERTHA RAFFETTO Poem Text First Line: In mullioned pools of wildwood bowers Last Line: Are clutched in earth's cold fingers. Subject(s): Death; March (month); Sleep; Winter; Dead, The ME HOLDING YOUR HAND HOLDING BACK, by DENNIS COOLEY Poem Source Last Line: Sound of blood rumbles in them Subject(s): Love; Snow; Togetherness; Winter MEMORIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a land, I, too Last Line: And sets my sail to seek another sky. Subject(s): Beauty; Home; Memory; Pacific Ocean; Soul; Winter; Youth MEMORY OF SNOW, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At times winter changes its mind Last Line: Peeling silently Subject(s): Snow; Winter MEN IN WINTER, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Stand out on the ice %over their holes, augers Last Line: The women. Who drive me out %onto the ice Subject(s): Mississippi; Winter MERRY CHRISTMAS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the rush of early morning Subject(s): Nature; Winter MERRY IT IS (MODERN VERSION), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "merry it is, while the summer last, / with birds in song" Last Line: "and I, being done so great a wrong, / sorrow and mourn and fast" Subject(s): Winter MID-WINTER, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day the clouds hung ashen with the cold Last Line: Of miseries on which he stared and smiled. Subject(s): Winter MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fairies; Supernatural; Winter MIDWINTER, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: My window looks upon a world grown gray Last Line: Could peace not bloom, too, in the world once more? Subject(s): Winter MIDWINTER, by FRANCES B. HUSTON Poem Text First Line: The fugitive seasons of the vanished year Last Line: This vacant time -- long silence, or brief words. Subject(s): Winter MIDWINTER ABSENCE, by EVAN LODGE Poem Text First Line: My love, when next the small soft feathered fifes Last Line: My love, of hope and fear and wonderings. Subject(s): Winter MIDWINTER SUNSET, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds blown together, like ragged whorls of smoke Last Line: A frightened squirrel scurries off in dismay. Subject(s): Evening; Winter; Sunset; Twilight MIDWINTER WALK IN CENTRAL PARK, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What heather is parading along the park in a Last Line: Underbrush. Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Death; Nature; Seasons; Winter; Dead, The MILKING THE COW, by MATTHEW LIPPMAN Poem Source First Line: I've been reading the paper all morning and can't get my eyes of the barn Last Line: As it races over the brown wheat grass to meet me head on %between the pink udders of one brown cow Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; News; Storms; Winter MIRTH, by EDITH COURTENAY BABBITT Poem Text First Line: I walked, one winter day Last Line: Of winter sun and bird at play. Subject(s): Chickadees; Walking; Winter MISERERE: LACHRYMAE, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slow are the years of light: and more immense Subject(s): Winter MISERERE: LACHRYMAE, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slow are the years of light: and more immense Last Line: Become thy stigmata. They are thy tears which fall Subject(s): Winter MONTREAL CARNIVAL SPORTS, by GEORGE MARTIN Poem Source First Line: The frost king sat on a throne of snow Subject(s): Sports; Winter MOOSE-HUNTING IN WINTER, by ISAAC MCLELLAN JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the winter snowfall lies heavy and deep Subject(s): Sports; Winter MORNING AFTER, by DENNIS COOLEY Poem Source Last Line: So loud it hurts Subject(s): Cold; Marriage; Skating And Skaters; Snow; Sports; Winter MORNING HYMN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Father, thou art near - so near Subject(s): Nature; Winter MOSS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O rain-bred moss that now dost hide Last Line: And warn me of the time that's gone. Subject(s): Memory; Moss; Nature; Winter MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: We built %a fortress Last Line: Did all %our armaments %erase Subject(s): Winter MOUNTAIN PAINTER, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: What shades of white Last Line: Only a winter artist hasm Subject(s): Winter MOUNTAIN SNOWSTORM, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Without warning, %the sky falls down Last Line: Covering the trees %with clouds Subject(s): Winter MY FATHER'S DREAM, by IONNA-VERONIKA WARWICK Poem Source First Line: That winter of the war Last Line: My heart just broke,' he said, 'when I saw %that beautiful bird go down.' Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Winter MY MOST. MY MOST. O MY LOST, by JOSE GARCIA VILLA Poem Source Subject(s): Winter MY TREE, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: It's the cedar--the mother of lingonberry--that is my tree Last Line: Among all the trees on earth it is nearest to the great snows, %to the blind son of the glacier. I w Subject(s): Glaciers; Snow; Strength; Trees; Winter MY WALK, by HICOK. BOB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am misunderstanding a song Last Line: Draws a breath to speak Subject(s): Winter MY WINTER ROSE, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you come when the trees were bare? Last Line: Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Winter NEUTRAL TONES, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stood by a pond that winter day Last Line: And a pond edged with grayish leaves. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Winter NEVER PLANNED IT THIS WAY, by DENNIS COOLEY Poem Source Last Line: Dry ice in the wrong season Subject(s): Desolation; Snow; Winter NEVER QUITE RIGHT, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: What can I do with this night Last Line: And never quite right Subject(s): Frost; Winter NEW NEIGHBORHOOD, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sold my brownstone windows full of leaves Last Line: Their clopping rhythm muffled in fresh snow. Subject(s): Cities; Moving & Movers; Winter; Urban Life NEW SPRING: 42, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With sullen thoughts in chilly bosom cherished Last Line: The worst of all comes next -- the rain's descending! Subject(s): Winter NEW YEAR'S DAY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is it: the night they've all selected Subject(s): New Year; Winter NEW YEAR, GOOD-MORNING!, by ALEXANDER MACLEAN Poem Text First Line: New year, good - morning! Come and bring Last Line: New year, good-morning! Subject(s): Day; Happiness; Holidays; Morning; New Year; Winter; Joy; Delight NIGHT MANCEUVRES, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through january night we climbed Last Line: I was not desolate before. Subject(s): Desolation; Night; Silence; Winter; World War Ii; Bedtime; Second World War NIGHT ON THE SKATING RINK, by GEORGE MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Our rink is in motion %like waves of the ocean Subject(s): Sports; Winter NIVE CANDIDUM SORACTE, by JACK MERTEN Poem Text First Line: There are those who laugh for the winter Last Line: Which persists in chattering and shivering outside. Subject(s): Cold; Mountain Climbing; Skiing; Winter NO SONGS IN WINTER, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is gray as gray may be Last Line: And golden orioles come again! Subject(s): Winter NO SOUND, by HENRY WORTHAM II Poem Text First Line: No sound in winter under the trees Last Line: Who knows that death comes in winter? Subject(s): Death; Winter; Dead, The NOCTURNE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: All the earth a hush of white Last Line: And . . . Your breast. Subject(s): Love; Winter NOEL, by JEANNETTE EVERETT LAWS Poem Text First Line: How soft the fingers of the snow Last Line: And let the christmas spirit pass. Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus; Snow; Winter; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint NOME BYPASS ROAD, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: The freak november of no snow Last Line: Of a limitless universe %and I was cycling, thrilled Subject(s): Eskimos; Frost; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Winter NOME CALENDAR, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Minus twenty, little wind, my dawdle Last Line: By timelessness, I began to enter %an easier, more human season Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Solitude; Teaching And Teachers; Winter NOME POST OFFICE, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Here where a cold july rain Last Line: At dawn. Fine, I replied, knowing %I had forever. And forever was now Subject(s): Cold; Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Winter NORDLAND, by MADELYN CAMRUD Poem Source First Line: This winter I've lost the feeling Last Line: In that space, so empty and so clean Subject(s): Arctic; Cold; North, The; Winter NORTH END, by RANDY BLASING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crows rule the roost Subject(s): Winter NORTH PALISADE, THE END OF SEPTEMBER, 1939, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun drops daily down the sky Subject(s): Winter NORTH PALISADE, THE END OF SEPTEMBER, 1939, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun drops daily down the sky Last Line: Ours is the peace to find Subject(s): Winter NORTH WINDOW, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Landscaped with frost and zippered fast with ice Last Line: Reality or a disabled chair. Subject(s): Cold; North, The; Winter NORTH WINTER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming of winter Last Line: North is / nothing Subject(s): Arctic; Winter NORTHERN TRAPPERS TRAIL, by GEORGE WELDON Poem Source First Line: Have you ever stooped in the frosty morn Subject(s): Sports; Winter NORTHERN WINTER'S WELCOME, by C. TURNER Poem Source First Line: Hurrah for the ski! And the taut snowshoe Subject(s): Sports; Winter NOT WRITING MY NAME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the snow, that is. The 'j' could have been Last Line: I have become the place the crow didn't appear. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Snow; Winter; Writing & Writers NOTE BOOK OF ROMANCES AND LAMENTS: LAMENT OF THE RUINED CHATEAUX IN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Lusignan, les baux, coucy, white towers in winter's fee, and autumn's king Last Line: Is it not bitter pain life's semblance to retain when death is in the air? Subject(s): Death; Lament; Pain; Winter; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery NOTHING HERE IS QUITE ALIVE, by DAVID HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: A small alberta spruce, %one side stricken Last Line: As this last corner of my heart Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Winter NOUMENON, by CASSIA BERMAN Poem Source First Line: It would snow so much in russia, my uncle told me, that the roads Last Line: The answers to their questions Subject(s): Memory; Russia; Snow; Winter NOVEMBER, by GIOVANNI PASCOLI Poem Source First Line: The air gemlike, the sun so clear Last Line: Summer of the dead Subject(s): Cold; November; Winter NOVEMBER AND THE WINDS ARE COMING FROM CANADA, by BOB VANCE Poem Source First Line: In the rude gloaming Last Line: My friend, %it is further than we can see Subject(s): Weather; Winter NOW IS WINTER GONE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long had I known you yet in truth I knew / you not Last Line: Flushes and flowers as gilded fields in april shine. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Nature; Nostalgia; Relationships; Winter; Parting NUMBNESS, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Vainly I search for a trace of her step in the snow-covered Last Line: Heart even soften, her image will dissolve and disappear Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter NUTTING-TIME, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the nights have lengthened Last Line: In triumph and in glee. Subject(s): Winter O DULL, COLD NORTHERN SKY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of honourable ways Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Winter ODE TO THE EARLIEST SNOWDROP, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Chaste flower, I fear to do thee wrong! Last Line: A rival host should mar. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Life; Winter ODE TO WINTER, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first the fiery-mantled sun Last Line: No bounds to human wo. Subject(s): Winter ODES 1, 9. VIDES UT ALTA, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep snow! Soracte stands solid under it Last Line: Or from a finger an easy forfeit. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Snow; Storms; Weather; Winter ODES I, 4. TO LUCIUS SESTIUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As biting winter flies, lo, spring with sunny Last Line: Nor woo the gentle lycidas, whom all are mad to win Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Winter ODES I, 9, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Snow's on the fellside, look! How deep Last Line: She won't make much fuss Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Winter ODES I, 9. TO THALIARCHUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One dazzling mass of solid snow Last Line: From wrist or hand that scarce rebels. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Variant Title(s): Odes I, 9. Socrate Subject(s): Winter ODES I, 9. TO WINTER, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold yon mountain's hoary height Last Line: These, these are joyes the gods for youth ordain. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Variant Title(s): To Thaliarchus Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Love; Translating & Interpreting; Winter; Youth ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 2. ON THE WINTER SOLSTICE, 1740, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The radiant ruler of the year Last Line: The liquid melody prolong. Subject(s): Winter Solstice OF ALL THE CORNERS TO FORGET: MINSTREL, by GIAN LOMBARDO Poem Source First Line: This tree knows when ice forms on the river, it's time to dream. In the ... Last Line: And fall among the branches of this tree Subject(s): Trees; Winter OF SKATING, by COULSON KERNAHAN Poem Source First Line: She's just at my back, and Subject(s): Sports; Winter OKTOBER, by D. E. STEWARD Poem Source First Line: Tree swallows in the hudreds feed in a quarter mile of sky off the Last Line: It is the way things always are so close to italy Subject(s): Birds; Europe; Migration; Winter OLD MAN'S NURSERY RHYME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the jolly winters Last Line: Oh! No! No! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Snow; Winter; Dead, The OLD MARCH HILL, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Worst winter in years Last Line: It felt like %half of us half-believed him Subject(s): Marching And Marches; Winter OLD NICK IN SOREL, by STANDISH HAYES O'GRADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old nick took a fancy, as many men tell Last Line: Will winter in hell and be here in the summer. Subject(s): Canada; Christmas; Santa Claus; Weather; Winter; Canadians; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint OLD WINTER, by THOMAS NOEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old winter sad, in snow yclad Last Line: We'll keep old winter out. Subject(s): Winter OLD WINTERS ON THE FARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have jest about decided Last Line: "groun'-hog's out and seed his shadder!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; February; Groundhogs; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers; Woodchucks ON A MARSH ROAD (WINTER, NIGHTFALL), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bluff of cliff, purple against the south Last Line: Nor none look back upon this world folding to-night, to rain and to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Nature; Night; Winter; Bedtime ON CROSSING THE RANGE OF HIGH LAND BETWEEN STONE AND MARKET DRAYTON, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dread inmate of the northern zone! Last Line: And fingers ghastly blue! Subject(s): Cold; Frost; Winter ON DECEMBER 21, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now let the weather do its worst Last Line: We'll greet the spring to-morrow! Subject(s): Winter ON THE DARK, STILL, DRY, WARM WEATHER ... IN WINTER MONTHS, by GILBERT WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The imprisoned winds slumber within their caves Last Line: And float the deluged paths and miry fields. Subject(s): Air; Snow; Weather; Wind; Winter ON TO CUBE!, by FRANKLIN MCDUFFEE Poem Source First Line: Listen to the wind, fellows Subject(s): Sports; Winter ONCE IN A LIFETIME, SNOW, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Winters at home brought wind Last Line: And another child Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Australia; Snow; Winter ONE DEGREE SHY OF SNOW, by CAROL KIVO Poem Source First Line: I stumble over half frozen earth Last Line: It is one degree shy of snow Subject(s): Frost; Skiing; Snow; Winter ONE SWALLOW DOES NOT MAKE A SUMMER', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rose which spied one swallow Last Line: But that rose never more Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Winter; Spring OUR BROOK IN WINTER, by LOVINA E. OVERLOCK Poem Source First Line: The little brook behind our house Subject(s): Brooks; Winter OUR FLAG (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Flag of our country brave Subject(s): Nature; Winter OUR SIR ROBIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When icicles shine so bright Subject(s): Nature; Winter OUT-BREEDERS, by TIMOTHY RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: To breed us out is a mistranslation Last Line: Moving south to another city that could stand to be so blessed Subject(s): Children; Seasons; Sex; Winter OUTSIDE THE DOOR, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Outside the door the bare tree stands Last Line: Until a puffing wind comes by. Subject(s): February; Snow; Winter OVER THE ICE WITH A CURVING SWING, by EDWARD W. SANDYS Poem Source Subject(s): Sports; Winter PALM ENDING IN WINTER, by IRA SADOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something simple, something clear Subject(s): Winter; Family Life; Relatives PANTRY, by EMOKE PULAY Poem Source First Line: Is the boy's hideaway Last Line: Bedtime nightly drags him out Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Poverty; Winter PASSING, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's winter and it will be for awhile Last Line: Until, as now, it up and walks %right through me Subject(s): Winter PEACH FIRES, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the orchards the dogs stood Subject(s): Trees; Fire; Winter PEGGIE'S CHARMS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where, braving angry winter's storms Last Line: Must be a stronger death. Subject(s): Winter PERISHIN' POEM, by WILLIAM NEILL Poem Source First Line: Winter's came Last Line: Wee josis frozis skintit %winter's diabolic - init? Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Winter PHANTOM SUNS, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw three suns outlined against the sky and stared at Last Line: If only the third would leave as well! Darkness is all %that I crave Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter PHYSICAL PERCEPTION I, by RAOUL SCHROTT Poem Source First Line: He fell out of november -- hail brought Last Line: Origin and from somewhere in the north Subject(s): Perception; Winter PICKEREL-FISHING, by ISAAC MCLELLAN JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wide o'er the lake's transparent plain Subject(s): Sports; Winter PINE WOODS IN WINTER, by INEZ CULVER CORBIN Poem Text First Line: Oh, little wood, knee - deep in snow Last Line: Just one more look before I go! Subject(s): Forests; Winter; Woods PIPING ROBIN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Piping robin, piping so Last Line: Tell the little flowers to grow, / piping robin, piping so! Subject(s): Robins; Winter PLANTING BULBS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Setting my bulbs arow Last Line: No more weeping, but laughter. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Winter; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life POEM FOR A NEW YEAR, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love that a reign of terror struck dumb Subject(s): Love; Winter; New Year POEM FOR NOVEMBER, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: Now the air holds its gray stiffly Last Line: As the white sun shivers against its dream Subject(s): Winter POEM ON THE FROST AND SNOW, by LEWIS+(1) MORRIS Poem Source First Line: Ere I freeze, to sing bravely Last Line: The key let him take home then %rightly to be kept in heaven! Subject(s): Winter POEMS ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY: VPON THE UNSEASONABLE TIMES, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fond vulgar, canst thou thinke it strange to finde Last Line: Men's sighes and teares are slight, and quickly done. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Mourning; Tears; Wind; Winter; Dead, The; Bereavement POETIC EPIGRAMS: 14. THE FROST, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How flowerlike the frost Last Line: Creative summer's ghost? Subject(s): Frost; Winter POETIC EPIGRAMS: 23. A BROOK IN WINTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange as a frozen dream Last Line: Is this stilled winter stream. Subject(s): Brooks; Dreams; Winter; Streams; Creeks; Nightmares POETIC EPIGRAMS: 24. WINTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under a priestly stole Last Line: With silence for a soul. Subject(s): Silence; Winter POETS IN LATE WINTER, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poets of missouri stare at astonishing winter Last Line: And ends that tiny, unearthly song Subject(s): Nature; Birds; Winter POST NUBES LUX, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sink, sullen rear-guard of the storm Last Line: I half adore thee as divine. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Storms; Winter POST-EQUINOX SPECTRA, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still weeks to ice-out Last Line: Or april fools' first Subject(s): Winter POSTCARD ELEMENT IN WINTER, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Supposing the wildlife became a person Last Line: I enjoyed getting it Subject(s): Winter PREY, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the gathering layers of gauze Subject(s): Winter PRIVATE GROUND, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First frost, and I walk among the rose-fruit, the marble toes Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Lakes; Winter; Pools; Ponds PSALM: MAGNOLIAS IN THE APRIL SNOW, by UROS ZUPAN Poem Source First Line: Let us bite through the chains of enchanted words, father, let us melt Last Line: Of my dreams, magnolias opening in the april snow Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Winter PURPLE OF WINTER, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: The man riding this particular day knows that Last Line: To the coming of snow over his purple mind Subject(s): Winter QUATRAINS: A WINTER DREAM, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The host of flakes that float thro' leafless trees Last Line: Come back to woo the roses that are dead. Subject(s): Winter QUIET INCARNATION, by PATRICIA G. ROURKE Poem Source First Line: Softly falls the snow Last Line: Int the night of our lives Subject(s): Religion; Winter RACE AT PETIT COTE, by WILLIAM EDWARD BAUBIE Poem Source First Line: Did you ever see mah ponay - Subject(s): Sports; Winter RAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What makes the rain, mamma? Subject(s): Nature; Winter REAL WONDER, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the stunned little interval Last Line: Preceding real wonder . Subject(s): Fences; Houses; Spring; Winter RED IS FOR WINTER, by JESSIE GODDARD BROMAN Poem Text First Line: The coffee steams in a silver urn Last Line: I have red books and a fire in the grate. Subject(s): Red (color); Winter REGARD, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In regard to their own movement Last Line: Turning through the fire . Subject(s): Fire; Winter REST, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now at last I begin to realize how tired I am Last Line: Sharp sting of the serpent as it stirs Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter RESURRECTION, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: When songsters were carolling matins betimes Last Line: Of the spring. Subject(s): Miracles; Nature; Seasons; Spring; Winter RETURN TO WINTER, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That day the starlings didn't eat. Subject(s): Winter RHYTHM CITY, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Winter salt stains white on the sidewalk Last Line: It is this, he admits, looking down %can't dance Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Cities; New York City; Orphans; Poetry And Poets; Winter RICE-PLANTING SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When winter comes Last Line: Has stretched and grown above Subject(s): Rice; Winter RIVER IN WINTER, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Winter wraps the river Last Line: Trying to keep it warm Subject(s): Winter RUNES FROM THE ISLAND OF HORSES: WINTER, by GEORGE MACKAY BROWN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Three winter brightnesses Last Line: Kirkyard spade Subject(s): Winter RUTHENIA, by JAMES SUTHERLAND-SMITH Poem Source First Line: Once and once and once upon all the time Last Line: They are not reminded of each other. Progress Subject(s): Hunting; Winter SAFE AND SOUND (A LITTLE ACTION SONG), by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Safe and sound in the ground Last Line: While mr. Rough wind rides around Subject(s): Plants; Seeds; Winter; Spring SAID TULIP, 'THAT IS SO', by MADGE ELLIOTT Poem Source First Line: One christmas time some roots and bulbs Subject(s): Nature; Winter SAINT FRANCIS IN WINTER, by RUTH KNOWLES Poem Text First Line: It is a sorry slight to leave out there Last Line: If so he yet can speak, he knows not death. Subject(s): Ice; Snow; Stones; Winter; Granite; Rocks SCENE LENDS ITS AID, by O'HARA BAYNES Poem Source Subject(s): Sports; Winter SEASON SONG, FR. THE FINN-CYCLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here's a song Last Line: Icy time %that's my rime Subject(s): Winter SEASONS: WINTER, by JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When seasons' images pass out of sight and mind Last Line: Nature burns, a gorgeous unbroken ring Alternate Author Name(s): Holderlin, J. C. F.; Holderlin, Friedrich Subject(s): Winter SEASONS: WINTER, by DAVID SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: Hard winter %unlivable house Last Line: You used to say oh you could say anything Subject(s): Winter SECOND SNOW, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Trees grow wild in the pasture Last Line: Lanterns, light calling %'come home' Subject(s): Bones; Death; Memory; Winter SELF-PORTRAIT: NOVEMBER, by SANDY LONGHORN Poem Source First Line: Walking home in the first hard freeze Last Line: To the metallic bite of birch bark and rust in my throat Subject(s): Homeless; Hunger; Portraits; Solitude; Winter SERFS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter has planted the fields black with crows Last Line: To make an earth that can be made a hell. Subject(s): Birds; Dirt; Farm Life; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers SESTINA D'INVERNO, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this bleak city of rochester Subject(s): Rochester, New York; Winter SESTINA D'INVERNO, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this bleak city of rochester Last Line: That is neither to our mind nor of our making Subject(s): Rochester, New York; Winter SEVENTH WINTER, by HARRY+(2) CLIFTON Poem Source First Line: That schnittke quartet ... Let me hear it again Last Line: My longdistance call. I knew I was waiting for something Subject(s): Telephones; Winter SHADOW AND SHINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Storms of the winter, and deepening Last Line: And the world was dear to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sea; Soul; Storms; Winter; Ocean SHAKESPEREAN BEAR, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When, on our casual way Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Winter SHAWHAN, KENTUCKY: WINTER 1978, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The trees explode outward Last Line: In the snow and fiercely live Subject(s): Despair; Kentucky; Labor And Laborers; Snow; Winter SHE SKATES ALONE, AND SWIFT AS SWALLOWS FLY, by PHILIP VERRILL MIGHELS Poem Source Subject(s): Sports; Winter SHE SLEEPS BENEATH THE WINTER SNOW, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep; Winter SHEEP IN WINTER, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sheep get up and make their many tracks Last Line: And shun the hovel where they might be warm. Subject(s): Sheep; Winter SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR: JANUARY; A COTTAGE EVENING, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shutter closed the lamp alight Last Line: Those truths are fled and left behind %a real world and doubting mind Subject(s): Winter SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR: JANUARY; A WINTER'S DAY, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dithering and keen the winter comes Last Line: Thus doth the winters dreary day %from to evening wear away Subject(s): Winter SHOOTING OF THE MOOSE, by THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: All day through woodland stillnesses Alternate Author Name(s): Roberts, T. G. Subject(s): Sports; Winter SHUT-INS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're gittin' so we need again Last Line: The charm of every dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Winter SIGNPOST, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For what reason do I avoid the well-trod paths of other Last Line: Road from which there is no return Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter SIGNS, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night I dreamed of my home, Subject(s): Winter SIGNS OF THE TIMES, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: The omenon, he said, how it looks at us Last Line: But not settled, he said, not settled, not anywhere Subject(s): Home; Winter SIGNS OF WINTER, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat runs races with her tail. The dog Last Line: Snatch from the orchard hedge the mizzled clothes %and laughing hurry in to keep them dry Subject(s): Winter SIGNS OF WINTER, by LEONARD JENNEWEIN Poem Text First Line: Everywhere are signs of coming winter Last Line: Rustles leaves within my heart. Subject(s): Emotions; Sympathy; Winter; Empathy SILENT DEPTHS, by THOMAS ROSENLOCHER Poem Source First Line: As though tipped down from the top of the sky Last Line: Of great quantities of air trapped under the ice Subject(s): Snow; Winter SILVER, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fishing is life for towns along the sea Last Line: Yet they shall keep a people until spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Water; Winter; Anglers SILVER FILIGREE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The icicles wreathing Last Line: In the blue cave of night. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Ice; Winter SILVER SWANS: 19, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The drowned moon plunges Last Line: Their winter nests, in the moments of dark Subject(s): Nature; Winter SINGING SCHOOL: 6. EXPOSURE, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is december in wicklow Subject(s): Ireland; Winter; Irish SINGING SCHOOL: 6. EXPOSURE, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is december in wicklow Last Line: The once-in-a-lifetime portent, %the comet's pulsing rose Subject(s): Ireland; Winter SIR WINTER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir winter is coming across the wide sea Last Line: Till he sings us the very best song that he can. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Sea; Singing & Singers; Winter; Ocean SIX MEDITATIONS AT THE BEGINNING OF WINTER: 1, by RICHARD LYONS Poem Source First Line: Is this gratitude, everything the sun replaces Last Line: Carve our blue anatomies Subject(s): Winter SIX MEDITATIONS AT THE BEGINNING OF WINTER: 2, by RICHARD LYONS Poem Source First Line: Just when our circumlocutions are about to cease Last Line: There will be a dull joy as we articulate each other's names Subject(s): Winter SIX MEDITATIONS AT THE BEGINNING OF WINTER: 3, by RICHARD LYONS Poem Source First Line: Among the little tags where blue heron tulips will come Last Line: A shark's fin shadows down the west Subject(s): Winter SIX MEDITATIONS AT THE BEGINNING OF WINTER: 4, by RICHARD LYONS Poem Source First Line: After a go at prayer beads & the soot of candles Last Line: O, let none of us dissolve, let none of dissolve Subject(s): Winter SIX MEDITATIONS AT THE BEGINNING OF WINTER: 5, by RICHARD LYONS Poem Source First Line: When the yellow emperor ascended on a dragon Last Line: The vertebrae's vibrating harp Subject(s): Winter SKAITER'S MARCH, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This snell and frosty morning Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATER, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My glad feet shod with the glittering steel Last Line: And I turned and fled, like a soul pursued, %from the white,inviolate solitude Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATER, by ORTH HARPER STEIN Poem Source First Line: Beneath her skates the curved steel bars Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATER AND WOLVES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Swifter the flight! Far, far and high Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATER BELLE, by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Along the ice I see her fly Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATER'S SONG AT NIGHT, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Source First Line: When glass-like glints the cracking ice Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATER'S VALENTINE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What if the air has a nipping tooth! Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATERS, by CHARLES GORDON ROGERS Poem Source First Line: Far in the west the dead day's pyre Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATERS' SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Away on the glist'ning plain we go Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATING, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: It was saturday, Last Line: Through the rise of pines. Subject(s): Cold; Skating And Skaters; Sports; Water; Winter SKATING, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We speed o'er the star-lighted mirror along Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATING SONG, by JR. HORACE HOWARD FURNESS Poem Source First Line: Fresh the breeze, the morning bright! Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATING SONG, by ARTHUR GRISCOM Poem Source First Line: As swift and light as a bird in flight Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATING SONG, by DAVID POTTER Poem Source First Line: The sound of the bugle over the hill - Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATING SONG, by CHARLES GORDON ROGERS Poem Source First Line: Whisper a song as we glide along, ye pines Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKI CHANTY, by J. SWINBURNE Poem Source First Line: The sky is blue, the snow lies deep Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKI-JOURNEY, by BJORNSTJERNE MARTINIUS BJORNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How they go hurrying %how they go scurrying! Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKI-SONG OF THE BRAEMAR POSTMAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ah! The tang o' the snell hill-air Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKIER, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: He goes past so fast Last Line: Winter has no gender Subject(s): Winter SKIS, by WALTER PRICHARD EATON Poem Source First Line: A pale new moon hung in the western sky Subject(s): Sports; Winter SLEDDING SONG, by NORMAN C. SCHLICHTER Poem Source First Line: Sing a song of winter Last Line: Wintertime delight Subject(s): Winter SLEEP, MINSTREL, SLEEP, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, minstrel, sleep; the winter wind's awake Last Line: When winter winds awoke. Sleep, minstrel, sleep Subject(s): Sleep; Winter SLEEPING WITH TWO WOMEN, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY Poem Source First Line: As I remember it, we emptied Last Line: Continents. Perfectly at home, perfectly lost Subject(s): Kansas; Snow; Winter SLEIGH RIDE, by ARTHUR GRISCOM Poem Source First Line: When all the world is robed in white Subject(s): Sports; Winter SLEIGH SONG, by G. W. PETTEE Poem Text First Line: Jingle, jingle, clear the way Last Line: T is the merry, merry sleigh. Subject(s): Nature; Winter SLEIGH-RIDE SONG, by J. D. VINTON Poem Source First Line: The silver moon is beaming Subject(s): Sports; Winter SLEIGHING, by ORRIN CHALFONT PAINTER Poem Source First Line: Brightly beams the moon tonight Subject(s): Sports; Winter SMELL OF CHILLED DUST IN MY NOSTRILS, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The breeze, whipped up by cars, slaps me Last Line: Rambles inside grand snowfalls, euphorically Subject(s): Cold; Snow; Survival; Winter SNOW, by A. E. C. Poem Source First Line: Snow so fair Subject(s): Nature; Winter SNOW, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brave winter and I shall ever agree Last Line: Hurrah! Then hurrah! For the drifting snow! Subject(s): Snow; Winter SNOW, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Moon like an exhausted nickel Last Line: As television circles the globe %aerials strum the wind Subject(s): Cold; Man-woman Relationships; Snow; Winter SNOW, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I melted the snow Last Line: Timid, sky blue roses Subject(s): Snow; Winter SNOW, by TZU LAN Poem Source First Line: Dense, swirling, falling through azure emptiness Last Line: Vagrant flakes drift in and stain his inkstone black Subject(s): Ice; Snow; White (color); Winter; Zen Buddhism SNOW, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow comes down on new york city Last Line: You will later eat before it is cooked. Subject(s): New York City; Snow; Winter; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SNOW CHANGE, by MAY LEWIS Poem Text First Line: I saw a white house, in the snow Last Line: The sweep of the hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Goldstone, Mrs. Lafayette Anthony Subject(s): Seasons; Snow; White (color); Winter SNOW CLAD, by RUBY PRICE DEBOE Poem Text First Line: This morn the earth is wrapped in snow Last Line: And covers up our sin. Subject(s): Winter SNOW GRATE, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Winter's flag %has all white bars Last Line: No stars. %cold glory Subject(s): Winter SNOW IN JERUSALEM, by JERRY MAZZA Poem Source First Line: Reports the new york times Last Line: The simmering landscape's pyre Subject(s): Floods; News; Snow; Winter SNOW IS STORMING, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Like the poor, %like the prisoners-of-war Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Snow; Winter SNOW ON THE TREES, by ANNA O. SMITH Poem Text First Line: We wake to see a world the night has made Last Line: It seems the only scoffer is the wind! Subject(s): Winter SNOW ON THE TREES, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Somebody painted %the trees last night Last Line: With ivory paintpots %white on white Subject(s): Winter SNOW REST, by CARMELITA A. LECLAIR Poem Text First Line: The down of angels wafted slowly to the earth Last Line: Obscured as the floss in a blanket heaven-made. Subject(s): Angels; Snow; White (color); Winter SNOW SHOE TRAMP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Up! Up! The morn is breaking Subject(s): Sports; Winter SNOW SOLACE, by REBECCA FUSFELD Poem Text First Line: A clean wind ushers the new year in Last Line: A newly-made bridal shroud. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Snow; Winter SNOW STORM, by SUSAN GOLDMARK Poem Text First Line: All still and softly through the night Last Line: Realization of my dream. Subject(s): Snow; Winter SNOW STORM, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: Outside the night is winter Last Line: The storm looses Subject(s): Winter SNOW VISITS MAGGIORE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Luckily the sun isn't out and the snow Last Line: Be many a body bereft of its soul! Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Snow; Winter; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SNOW WEATHER, by LEONE RICE GRELLE Poem Text First Line: The hoar-frost lingers long on branch and bough Last Line: Tonight I brace the door, and heap the wood. Subject(s): Winter SNOW-FALL, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: Don't ask me how the blood qiuetens Last Line: Are caught by cheerfulness when the snow falls Subject(s): Snow; Winter SNOW-SHOWER, by MARY LUNDIE DUNCAN Poem Source First Line: See, mamma, the crumbs are flying Subject(s): Nature; Winter SNOW-STORM, by GIOSUE CARDUCCI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Large, slow snowflakes fall from an ashen heaven: the noisy Last Line: Shall to the silence descend, lay me to rest in the gloom Subject(s): Snow; Storms; Winter SNOWBIRD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the morning light trills the gay swallow Subject(s): Nature; Winter SNOWBIRD'S SONG, by F. C. WOODWARD Poem Source First Line: The ground was all covered with snow one day Subject(s): Nature; Winter SNOWBOUND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The sun that brief december day / rose cheerless over hills of gray Last Line: The benediction of the air. Variant Title(s): New England In Winter;a Winter Idyl;snow-bound;snow-bound: A Winter Idyll Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Massachusetts; Memory; Religion; Snow; Winter; Relatives; Theology SNOWDROP, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already now the snowdrop dares appear Last Line: And winter lingers in its icy veins Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Winter SNOWDROP AND CROCUS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long were the wintry days and cold Last Line: No wonder earth is glad to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Snow; Winter SNOWFLAKE BENTLEY, by ADRIE S. KUSSEROW Poem Source First Line: Even in fall, his brain craving Last Line: For the joy of the infinite %opening inside him Subject(s): Mankind; Snow; Winter SNOWLESS WINTER, by MERTA M. BROOKINGS Poem Text First Line: The earth is bleak and bare Last Line: Above the lake. Subject(s): Cold; Winter SNOWMOBILE, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: It growls %like a polar bear Last Line: Of that ursine race? Subject(s): Winter SNOWS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the long-bearded chilly-fingered winter Last Line: Green and unchanging to the wandering stars. Subject(s): Snow; Winter SNOWSHOE TRAIL, by ISAAC RUSLING PENNYPACKER Poem Source First Line: Out on the open windswept spaces Subject(s): Sports; Winter SNOWSHOE TRAMP, by BEATRICE HARLOWE Poem Source First Line: Away, away o'er the glittering snow Subject(s): Sports; Winter SNOWSHOER, by THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: Under the moon and the stars Alternate Author Name(s): Roberts, T. G. Subject(s): Sports; Winter SNOWSHOERS SONG, by JOSEPH NEVIN DOYLE Poem Source First Line: Tighten the toque, and girdle the sash Subject(s): Sports; Winter SNOWSTORM (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We are free! We are free! The snowflakes cried Subject(s): Nature; Winter SNOWSTORM IN THE DUSK, by EDWARD SAPIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great dabs of gray Last Line: And there's a moaning, moaning, in the gloom. Subject(s): Snow; Storms; Weather; Winter SOFT SNOW, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked abroad on a snowy day Last Line: And the winter called it a dreadful crime. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Snow; Winter SOLITARY NOTE, by VASILE IGNA Poem Source First Line: When the snowstorm sinks into sleep Last Line: The sea's language of coral and seaweed? Subject(s): Sea; Snow; Winter SOME, TOO FRAGILE FOR WINTER WINDS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Lambs for whom time had not a fold Subject(s): Winter; Cold SONG, by ANNE COLLINS Poem Text First Line: The winter being over, / in order comes the spring Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, An Subject(s): Winter SONG, by ANNE COLLINS Poem Text First Line: The winter of my infancy being over-past Last Line: Can e'er define. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, An Subject(s): Winter SONG FOR SNOW, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: In the forests falling snow Last Line: But who will know and who will care? Subject(s): Winter SONG OF THE CHAMOIS HUNTER, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, brave may be those bands, perchance Subject(s): Sports; Winter SONG OF THE SKI, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A king, I ween, it must have been Subject(s): Sports; Winter SONG OF THE SNOW FLAKES, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We're very small, we're very small Last Line: What a white, white world the world can be! Subject(s): December; Snow; Winter SONG ON THE EDGE OF WINTER, by ANNA SHAW BUCK Poem Text First Line: I shall remember, when my years are few Last Line: A melody surpassing that of birds. Subject(s): Memory; Singing & Singers; Winter; Songs SONG TOWARD WINTER, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: I walk an afternoon road Last Line: And the horn of the wind grieves Subject(s): Winter SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 2. JUST WHY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just why the wind more sadly blows Last Line: Believe what I will of naked trees. Subject(s): Trees; Wind; Winter SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 6. WARM DAYS IN WINTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When warm days come in the middle of winter Last Line: And you dream of a faun's, or wood-nymph's, fife. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Winter; Nightmares SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 7. ZERO, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hard of heart, winter has frozen the fields Last Line: One dares not even think of lambs or fawns. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Stars; Winter; Nightmares SONGS OF THE CANADIAN WINTER, by JAMES K. LISTON Poem Source First Line: Down the st. Lawrence winter storms begin Subject(s): Sports; Winter SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE WINTER DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky has turned its heart away Last Line: Green lies the summer grass. Subject(s): Cold; Day; Happiness; Laughter; Winter; Joy; Delight SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE WINTER NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back shining from the pane, the fire Last Line: My father, in my soul! Subject(s): Children; Cold; Death; Fathers; God; Memory; Night; Winter; Childhood; Dead, The; Bedtime SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 69, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the blue opal of a winter noon Last Line: Have perished one by one! Subject(s): Winter; Stars SONGS OF WINTER 1, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: Chill of dawn, cry of the crow Last Line: Came down into it and seared Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Winter SONGS OF WINTER 2, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: Still the frost is on the glass Last Line: I'll run myself to welcome it! Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Winter SONGS OF WINTER 3, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: And while I'm still on my front step Last Line: Of cheer, lively and full of din Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Winter SONGS OF WINTER 4, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: Oh, fall one me, frost! Last Line: Of the sun's rays - - rule in your strength! Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Winter SONGS OF WINTER 5, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: Morning's incense on the roofs Last Line: Seven times as mighty and as brave Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Winter SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; SEA-MEWS IN WINTER TIME, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked beside a dark grey sea Last Line: I walked in joy, and was not cold. Subject(s): Earth; Happiness; Sea; Snow; Winter; World; Joy; Delight; Ocean SONNET, by DOROTHY MOORE GARRISON Poem Text First Line: The autumn loitered through the valley lanes Last Line: And all our summer sowing had been lost. Subject(s): Winter SONNET (12), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, while the rear-guard of the flyinf year Last Line: And shouts of triumph peal along the shore. Subject(s): Winter SONNET TO WINTER, by STELLA MUSE WHITEHEAD Poem Text First Line: For every sorrow, every faded thing Last Line: I scent the honeysuckle in the lane. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Winter SONNET. THE DOUBLE ROCK, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since thou hast view'd some gorgon, and art grown Last Line: To make two rocks each others monument. Subject(s): Winter SONNET: A DISAPPOINTMENT, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, of a sudden, came to life one day Subject(s): Winter SONNET: 13, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee Last Line: Or taste the old october brown and bright. Variant Title(s): Winter Subject(s): Christmas; Old Age; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Winter; Nativity, The SONNET: 4. TO HONORA SNEYD, WHOSE HEALTH WAS ALWAYS BEST IN WINTER, by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now the youthful, gay, capricious spring Last Line: Dim winter's naked hedge and plashy field. Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Subject(s): Health; Winter SONNET: 97, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: How like a winter hath my absence been Last Line: That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Winter; Separation; Isolation SONNET: DECEMBER, 1879, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the earth at rest from sun and storm Last Line: Silent with joy, and pure with perfect love. Subject(s): Winter SONNET: ILLEGITIMATE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maiden spring came laughing down Last Line: And with brute buffet scars her shrinking face! Subject(s): Winter SONNET: JANUARY, 1879, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With bounding heart, with eyes and cheeks aglow Last Line: Who know not spring, or having known, forget. Subject(s): Winter SONNET: THE STORMY NIGHT (WRITTEN ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT, 1873), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How roars this wintry tempest, fierce and loud Last Line: I mock your ire, nor heed your wild despair. Subject(s): Winter SONNET: TO A HYACINTH IN JANUARY, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet household hyacinth, whose dainty breath Last Line: More full and fragrant than the promised joy. Subject(s): Hyacinths; Winter SONNET; DECEMBER MORNING, 1782, by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love to rise ere gleams the tardy light, / winter's pale dawn Last Line: From drear decays of age, outlive the old! Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Subject(s): Winter SONNETS FOR FIVE SEASONS: BETWEEN, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wet and weight of this half-born english winter Subject(s): Winter SONNETS OF SEASONS: 4. WINTER, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would some year my life were like this day Last Line: And smiling turn to pay death's wintry claim. Subject(s): Winter SOON SHALL THE WINTER'S FOIL BE HERE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For such the scenes the annual play brings on Subject(s): Winter SOUL WINTER, by KATHLEEN MCDONALD Poem Source First Line: Tightened muscles, tightened back Last Line: Where will it end? %when? Subject(s): Winter SOUNDS OF THE WINTER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sounds of the winter too Last Line: Forth from these snowy hairs we keep up yet the lilt. Subject(s): Winter SOUNDS OF WINTER, by THEA SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: Girl in a private-school skirt Last Line: A whole house raging with silence Subject(s): Girls; Winter SPATE IN WINTER MIDNIGHT, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The streams fall down and through the darkness bear Last Line: Where the cold adder sleeps in his small bed, %curled neatly round his neat and evil head Subject(s): Winter SPIRIT OF THE CARNIVAL, by LILY ALICE LEFEVRE Poem Source First Line: Onward! The people shouted Last Line: Their honour brilliant as thy skies, %and stainless as thy snow! Subject(s): Sports; Winter SPRING, by MARION J. CARLEY Poem Text First Line: When nature wakens from her sleep Last Line: To him who rules the earth and skies. Subject(s): Spring; Winter SPRING AND AUTUMN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green ripples singing down the corn Last Line: And full of winter pain. Subject(s): Corn; Gold; Green (color); Pain; Winter; Suffering; Misery SPRING AND WINTER, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world buds every year Last Line: But the thorns remain behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Spring; Winter SPRING IN WINTER, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For me there is no rarer thing Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme. Subject(s): Winter; Spring SPRING ON THE WOODLAND PATH, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So long a winter such an arctic night Last Line: With the old hearts in this forgotten way? Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Grief; Love; Relationships; Spring; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness SPRING SPARKLE AND THE COCK-BIRD SHRIEK, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: Yesterday the winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind Last Line: May this movement spare me a final humiliation Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Seasons; Singing And Singers; Time; Winter STANDING IN A WINTER FIELD GAZING AT A PHOTOGRAPH OF ICE, by J. C. TODD Poem Source First Line: Icefalls, mountains, frozen lake, all of it Last Line: I take in the whitening, the cold Subject(s): Cold; Ice; Photography And Photographers; Winter STANZAS, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dead leaves strew the forest-walk Last Line: Feel --that it all is cold and gone. Subject(s): Winter; Transience; Truth; Impermanence STANZAS WRITTEN WRITTEN ON THE FIRST OF DECEMBER, 1793, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though now no more the musing ear Last Line: And bid the flowret bloom. Subject(s): Love; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Seasons; Winter STARLIGHT, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chill sad evening wind of winter blows Last Line: Sad as the breathing of a human sigh. Subject(s): Death; Snow; Winter; Dead, The STARS' BALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh! The stars, one and all Subject(s): Nature; Winter STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose woods these are I think I know Last Line: And miles to go before I sleep. Subject(s): Duty; Evening; Forests; Religion; Snow; Solitude; Winter; Sunset; Twilight; Woods; Theology; Loneliness STORMY MORNING, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How violently the storm has torn apart the gray fabric of Last Line: Image: it is nothing more than winter-cold, raw winter! Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter SUCCESSION, by KAREN CARCIA Poem Source First Line: In winter we need %more sleep. It takes 5 years Last Line: We walked along the lake %talking, talking Subject(s): Night; Winter SUDDENLY. IN DECEMBER, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Suddenly. In december. I stand knee-deep in snow Last Line: Dearest, you who are sleeping. Eurydice. %--under the snow. Under the wreath of cedar Subject(s): Absence; Death; December; Love - Loss Of; Nostalgia; Winter SUGARING, by RAYMOND HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: A man may think wild things under the moon Last Line: So to be very near her when she stirs. Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond Peckham Subject(s): Trees; Winter SUMMER HAS DIED, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a lingering death that the summer died Last Line: And the mourner will mourn nevermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Winter; Dead, The; Bereavement SUMMER-TIME AND WINTER-TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the golden noon-shine Last Line: "cheep! Cheep! Cheep!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Katydids; Moon; Summer; Winter SYCAMORES IN WINTER, by JOANNE KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: A sudden white Last Line: Stripped down to beautiful bare bones Subject(s): Trees; Winter TALLY-HO, by SAMUEL MATHEWSON BAYLIS Poem Source First Line: I sing you a song tonight, my lads Subject(s): Sports; Winter TANKA, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter has come Last Line: And keep warm Subject(s): Winter TAOS WINTER, by PATTY HARJO Poem Source First Line: Sound of happy laughter leap with shadows on the walls Last Line: A place to be lonely for Subject(s): Winter TAPISSERIE 8 MONTHS' SNOW, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: Kaolin, drawing circles, dust, he said Last Line: There are quite a few of them by now Subject(s): Relationships; Snow; Winter TEACHING A GIRL TO SKATE, by THOMAS WINTHROP HALL Poem Source First Line: Oh, there's nothing in all the world so fine Subject(s): Sports; Winter TEMPLE BELLS, by MABEL BLACK MYERS Poem Text First Line: My window frames an artist's dream Last Line: I hear the temple bells! Subject(s): Bells; Temples; Winter; Mosques TERMINUS, by ALICE JONES Poem Source First Line: The snow ghost pursued me Last Line: Of the sierras in spring's last storm Subject(s): Snow; Winter THAT HOCKEY GAME, by JR. E. C. POTTER Poem Source First Line: What is that noise that rings out clear Subject(s): Sports; Winter THAT WINTER, by WELDON KEES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold ground and colder stone Last Line: And snow is raging, raging, in a darker world Subject(s): Winter THAT WINTER THE NIGHT FELL SEVEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To run under the ground Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Night; Winter THE APPROACH OF WINTER, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blockade of the senses. Mail steamers from the levant Last Line: In chorus I will try to give it its note. Subject(s): Winter THE ARBOUR, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll rest me in this sheltered bower Last Line: Confined by such a chain as this? Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Winter THE BEACH, by DAVID O'NEIL Poem Text First Line: The chill clung to the water Last Line: On snowy mornings. Subject(s): Seashore; Winter; Beach; Coast; Shore THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the dead man's skin turns black and blue, he thinks it is winter Last Line: The dead man in winter is not just winter. Subject(s): Death; Winter; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man in winter is the source of spring Last Line: The dead man in winter is in heaven. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Spring; Winter; Dead, The; Paradise THE BOTTICELLIAN TREES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The alphabet / of the trees Subject(s): Trees; Winter THE BRAES O' GLENIFFER, by ROBERT TANNAHILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Keen blaws the wind o'er the braes o' gleniffer Last Line: The dark days o' winter were summer to me! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Winter; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness THE BREATH, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A trembling crest Last Line: It signifies a flame. Subject(s): Nature; Winter THE BROOK: WINTER, by LAURA ABELL Poem Text First Line: Tawny grasses climb the fields Last Line: That spring will come, ere many moons. Subject(s): Cold; Snow; Solitude; Winter; Loneliness THE CHAIR, by DAVID FERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chair left out in the garden night all winter Last Line: All winter long even behind the day Subject(s): Chairs; Winter THE CHILD ALONE: 4. PICTURE-BOOKS IN WINTER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer fading, winter comes Last Line: Reading picture story-books? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Books; Winter; Reading THE CHILD AND THE ROSE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the child to the rose: I would that I Last Line: Dead, with a baby at her breast. Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Night; Roses; Winter; Childhood; Bedtime THE COACHMAN'S YARN, by EDWIN JAMES BRADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This a tale that the coachman told Last Line: Nimitybell on monaro. Alternate Author Name(s): Brady, E. J. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Cold; Death; Fire; Story-telling; Winter; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Dead, The THE COAL-FIRE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, we'll light the parlor fire Last Line: But coal of each sex shall contribute its part. Subject(s): Fireplaces; Guests; Winter; Women; Visiting THE COLD TAP, by BARBARA GUEST Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Winter THE COMPANION, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter is here, and the music gone Last Line: With dark and dew. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Winter; Songs THE COMPOSER'S WINTER DREAM, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vivid and heavy, he strolls through dark brick kitchens Last Line: In a struggle with the loud, combatant horns. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Cooking & Cooks; Deafness; Death; Music & Musicians; Winter; Cookery; Dead, The THE CRUMBS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often I watch, when violets are in season Last Line: From quick, or from the honeysuckle's horn. Subject(s): Aging; Lust; Winter THE DAFT DAYS, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now mirk december's dowie face Last Line: The city guard. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Winter THE DEEP, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I must have peace, increasing peace Last Line: Be spun from dust. Subject(s): Courage; Tides; Winter; Valor; Bravery THE DEFEAT OF WINTER, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But yester morn the frozen snow Last Line: Upon it all shall melt in bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Frost; Memory; Mourning; Snow; Winter; Bereavement THE DRUM: THE NARRATIVE OF THE DEMON OF TEDWORTH, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In his tall senatorial Last Line: Where the drum rolls up the stair, nor tarries. Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Winter; Witchcraft & Witches THE DWARF, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now it is september and the web is woven Subject(s): Winter THE ELVES OF WINTER, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI Poem Text First Line: In each ferny, frost-flower tree Last Line: Toss back sparkles elf-men chase! Subject(s): Fairies; Winter; Elves THE EMPIRE STATE, by LUCY BURGMAN Poem Text First Line: They tell me of lands that are fairer than Last Line: And free men are tilling thy soil. Subject(s): New York City; North, The; Winter; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE ENEMIES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As fish that take the motion of the sea Last Line: But god who made me so? Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Finality; Hearing; Love - Unrequited; Self; Sight; Touch (sense); Winter; Dead, The THE EVE OF ST. AGNES, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Agnes' eve - ah, bitter chill it was! Last Line: For aye unsought for slept among his ashes cold. Variant Title(s): Bitter Chill Subject(s): Agnes, Saint (d. 304 A.d.); Love; Saints; Winter THE EVENING STROLL, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quick o'er the wintry waste dart fiery shafts Last Line: Which gnaws his heart and bids him hope no more. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Evening; Poetry & Poets; Winter; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight THE FALL OF THE LEAF, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grown tired of this rank summer's wealth Last Line: Or pine upon the winter's crudity. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Winter; Fall THE FARM-WOMAN'S WINTER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If seasons all were summers Last Line: And what I love not, brings. Subject(s): Farm Life; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S BOY: WINTER, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With kindred pleasures moved, and cares opprest Subject(s): Farm Life; Winter; Animals; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S INGLE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whan gloaming grey out owr the welkin keeks Last Line: And a lang lasting train o' peaceful hours succeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Farm Life; Mills & Millers; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers THE FEBRUARY SPRITE, by EDITH EARNSHAW Poem Text First Line: The february sprite is here, for see! Last Line: Wrote daffodils! Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Winter THE FIRE WITHIN, by ROBERT BRENDON Poem Text First Line: A snow - covered garden in pain Last Line: Fades, -- but the I can never die. Subject(s): Future Life; Soul; Winter; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: The first bee that hummeth Last Line: O'er which wound his way. Subject(s): Schools; Winter; Students THE FIRST FIRE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ha, old acquaintance! Many a month has past Last Line: And feel a glow beyond material fire! Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Fire; Winter THE FIRST FROST, by EDITH H. SHANK Poem Text First Line: The world has changed her dress Last Line: Has paid the modiste's frightful fee. Subject(s): Frost; Winter THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE FIFTH AND SIXTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Infected mad he danced on his mountains high & dark as heaven Last Line: In their progressions & preparing urizens path before him Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE FIRST AND SECOND, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the aged mother which shook the heavens with wrath Last Line: Vala Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE NINTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And los & enitharmon builded jerusalem weeping Last Line: The dark religions are departed & sweet science reigns Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then urizen arose the spectre fled & tharmas fled Last Line: Babylon again in infancy calld natural religion Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE THIRD AND FOURTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now sat the king of light on high upon his starry throne Last Line: Into unusual forms dancing & howling stamping the abyss Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE GAP OF THE WINDS, by ROBERT NOTVEST Poem Text First Line: Rustling leaves, dancing with the breeze Last Line: And always the thorn protects the rose. Subject(s): Wind; Winter THE HAPPY DAYS WHEN I WER YOUNG, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In happy days when I wer young Last Line: In happy days when I wer young! Subject(s): Happiness; Memory; Winter; Youth; Joy; Delight THE HAT GIVEN TO THE POET BY LI-CHIEN, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago a white-haired gentleman Last Line: And the trees on your tomb are swayed by the autumn wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Hats; Winter THE HILLS, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: Through the twilight faint winds will ever waken Last Line: Out of the twilight. Subject(s): Winter THE HOP GARDEN: BOOK 1: HOPS AND PROPS, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When phoebus looks through aries on the right Last Line: They've felt; 'tis then we fell sublimer props. Subject(s): Cold; Plants; Seasons; Winter; Youth; Planting; Planters THE ICE CAGE, by JAMES METHVEN BALLANTYNE Poem Text First Line: A red bird in a frozen tree Last Line: That were a clarion call to prayer. Subject(s): Birds; Winter THE IDLER'S CALENDAR: DECEMBER. AWAY TO EGYPT, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough, enough! This winter is too rude Subject(s): Winter; Vacation; Egypt THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 3. WINTER, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the snow, / a frozen barefoot penitent I go Last Line: My sins are scarlet. She was white as snow. Subject(s): Death; Knights & Knighthood; Snow; Winter; Dead, The THE LAGGARD SONG, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had no heart to write to thee in prose Last Line: O winter of my heart! O nightingale! Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Hearts; Love; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs THE LANE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How are those berries lovely in Last Line: And plucking other flower of dreams. Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Winter; Childhood THE LAST FLOWER OF THE GARDEN, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: The last flower of the garden was blooming Last Line: And the once lovely flower was withered and dead. Subject(s): Flowers; Winter THE LAST LABOUR, by CHARLES R. MURPHY Poem Text First Line: From your short time of gladnes in fair weather Last Line: The triumph and the meekness of the grave. Subject(s): Winter THE LAST LOOK O' HAME, by HEW AINSLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Bare was our burn brae, december's blast had blawn Last Line: But the last look o' hame I can never forget. Subject(s): Memory; Winter THE LAST NIGHT OF WINTER, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: Whose whips are those cracking up the river Last Line: A crocus, not a candle, in my hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Winter THE LAST SALOON IN LUBBOCK, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bulky in coats Last Line: In stiff winds banging the roof. Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Dawn Of The Bitter Blizzard Subject(s): Bells; Birds; Buzzards; Ghosts; Snow; Supernatural; Winter THE LIFE OF TOWNS: LEAR TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clamor the bells falling bells Last Line: Into the kill-hole Subject(s): City & Town Life; Winter THE MAGNOLIA TREE, by EASTER ROHRER BECKER Poem Text First Line: Just a gorgeous bouquet of blossoms Last Line: When its green leaves unfold. Subject(s): Magnolias; Spring; Winter THE NIGHT WAS WIDE, AND FURNISHED SCANT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The sleet — than may, no thee Subject(s): Winter THE OLD CLOAK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This winter's weather it waxeth cold Last Line: And I'll take my old cloak about me Subject(s): Winter THE OLD PINE TREE, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND Poem Text First Line: Listen my child,' said the old pine tree to the little one nestling near Last Line: "drifts are lying." Subject(s): Snow; Sports; Winter THE OLYMPIANS, by AMORY HARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They said, 'it's bitter cold today' Last Line: But one had watched the olympian tournament! Alternate Author Name(s): Hutchinson, Amory Hare Subject(s): Trees; Winter THE ONSET, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always the same, when on a fated night Last Line: And there a clump of houses with a church. Subject(s): Winter; Death; Dead, The THE PARTING AND THE COMING GUEST, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who watched the worn-out winter die? Last Line: I think the coming sped the parting guest. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Seasons; Spring; Winter THE PHANTOM COMPOSER, by IRENE DAKIN Poem Text First Line: The round silver disk of a cold sun Last Line: On the cold white keyboard of a winter's day. Subject(s): Shadows; Snow; Sun; Winter THE PIGEONS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pigeons, following the faint warm light Last Line: As thou dost blot out all our miseries. Subject(s): Frost; Pain; Pigeons; Winter; Suffering; Misery THE PINE TREE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The somber pine is a norseman grave Last Line: And what remembering roots has he! Subject(s): Cold; Graves; Pine Trees; Soul; Trees; Winter; Tombs; Tombstones THE PINES, SIXTY-SEVENTH STREET; CENTRAL PARK, LOOKING SOUTHWARD, by HARVEY MAITLAND WATTS Poem Text First Line: Though winds are bleak this greening tells of may Last Line: And ceaseless flows this restless human tide. Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Pine Trees; Trees; Winter THE POET'S JOURNAL: DECEMBER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beech is bare, and bare the ash Last Line: But thou and I are true! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; December; Love; Winter; Dead, The THE POET'S JOURNAL: IN WINTER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The valley stream is frozen Last Line: Wait in the womb of the snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Future; Love; Past; Winter THE POOR TREES STAND AND SHIVER SO, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: Without a cloak in wind and snow Subject(s): Trees; Winter THE REAPER, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: All through the blood-red autumn Last Line: That the gleaner be glad in his gleaning. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers THE REDBIRD IN WINTER, by ETHEL M. HASSON Poem Text First Line: The redbird's singing to himself Last Line: And for his cheerful song. Subject(s): Birds; Winter THE RESURRECTION OF ALCILIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet song-flower of the mayspring of our song Last Line: Murmuring, we hear thee, bird and flower of love. Subject(s): Death; Life; Winter; Dead, The THE RETURN, by CLARA FOX Poem Text First Line: Late on a winter afternoon Last Line: Are sweeter thoughts left to share. Subject(s): Pain; Thought; Winter; Suffering; Misery; Thinking THE ROBIN IN JANUARY, by HENRY CHARLES BEECHING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green again, o green to-day Subject(s): Robins; Winter THE ROSE IN WINTER, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When last I saw this opening rose Last Line: Who could have dreamed so strange a thing? Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Winter THE ROSE SHE WORE IN WINTER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O rose, so subtly sweet Last Line: The summer's by-gone bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Winter THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: DECEMBER, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gentle shepheard satte beside a springe Last Line: Tell rosalind her colin bids her adieu.' Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Aging; December; Seasons; Winter THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: JANUARY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shepheards boye (no better doe him call) Last Line: Whose hanging heads did seeme his carefull case to weepe. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): January; Love - Complaints; Winter THE SILVER SWANS: 19, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The drowned moon plunges Subject(s): Nature; Winter THE SLOUGHING WIND, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some leaves hang late, some fall Last Line: The tale of winter branches and old bones. Subject(s): Leaves; Winter THE SNOW, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When freezing winter smites the whirling globe Last Line: In all the universe of star and sun? Subject(s): Cold; Death; Graves; Homeless; Snow; Winter; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE SNOW, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The snow! The snow! 'tis a pleasant thing Last Line: Upon the falling snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Cold; Memory; Mysticism; Snow; Thought; Winter; Thinking THE SNOW-SHOWER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand here by my side and turn, I pray Last Line: At rest in the dark and silent lake. Subject(s): Nature; Snow; Winter THE SNOWFLAKES, by J. A. HARM Poem Text First Line: Soft, starry, crystal snow-flakes Last Line: All the earth on christmas day. Subject(s): Christmas; Snow; Winter; Nativity, The THE STORM, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lie in bed and hear the storm cavorting on Last Line: Weather misbehaves, a whoop-la he can raise. Subject(s): Snow; Storms; Winter THE STUDENT'S SERENADE, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have slept upon my couch Last Line: Though that bliss be shared with me. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Students; Winter; Freedom; Togetherness; Liberty THE TASK: BOOK 4. THE WINTER EVENING, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! 'tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge Last Line: Found here that leisure and that ease I wished. Subject(s): Country Life; Winter THE TASK: BOOK 6. THE WINTER WALK AT NOON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is in souls a sympathy with sounds Last Line: Whose approbation prosper--even mine. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Bells; Country Life; Winter; Animal Abuse; Vivisection THE TOWN IN FEBRUARY, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who turns laneward these dear, subtle days Last Line: And all of march halts at the very door. Subject(s): Winter THE TWENTY-SECOND OF DECEMBER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild was the day; the wintry sea Last Line: This hallowed day like us shall keep. Subject(s): Winter THE UNLOOSENING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter was weary. All his snows were / failing Last Line: Above their eyesa pale and shaking crown. Subject(s): Cold; Snow; Winter THE VOYAGEUR, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND Poem Text First Line: Dere's somet'ing stirrin' ma blood tonight Last Line: An' drink to de voyageur. Subject(s): Sports; Winter THE WEST WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come from out the west Last Line: Wild tempests to each shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Spring; Storms; Wind; Winter THE WHARF ON THAMES-SIDE: WINTER DAWN, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day begins: cold and misty on soiled snow Subject(s): Morning; Winter; London; Wharves; City & Town Life; Piers THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONGS OF THE WRENS: WINTER, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The frost is here Last Line: But not into mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Winter THE WINTER FLOWER; A BIRTHDAY OFFERING (FOR MUSIC), by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bloom, beloved flower! Last Line: Of the dull world's caressing. Subject(s): Flowers; Winter THE WINTER HOUR, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the hours of day or night Last Line: Book, picture, music, friend, and flower. Subject(s): Winter THE WINTER IS LONG, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low autumn clouds and a wind to take them anywhere Last Line: The winter is long. Subject(s): Winter THE WINTER LAKES, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in a world of death, far to the northward lying Last Line: Death and hate on the rocks, as sandward and landward it roars. Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Subject(s): Lakes; Winter; Pools; Ponds THE WINTER NOSEGAY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What nature, alas! Has denied Last Line: The truth of a friend such as you. Subject(s): Winter THE WINTER SCENE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rutted roads are all like iron; skies Last Line: The crimson dragon dies in dusky gold. Subject(s): Winter THE WINTER SHORE, by THOMAS WADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mighty change it is, and ominous Last Line: Reigneth omnipotent. Subject(s): Seashore; Seasons; Water; Wind; Winter; Beach; Coast; Shore THE WINTER SLEEP, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A maiden o'erwearied Last Line: Thy lover is here. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Kisses; Sleep; Spring; Winter; World THE WINTER SOLSTICE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the time of the year? Last Line: And god for earth is born! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Nature; Winter THE WINTER TRAVELER, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God help thee, traveler, on thy journey far Last Line: His lonely bark through the tempestuous tide. Subject(s): Travel; Winter; Journeys; Trips THE WINTER WILD, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sudden hath the snow come down! Last Line: The early lost, and long deplored! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Cold; December; Memory; Snow; Winter THE WINTER WOOD ARRIVES, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think / I could have Subject(s): Winter THE WISE MEN HAVE NOT TOLD ME, by CULLY DRAKE KIRKHAM Poem Text First Line: The winter long I have fumbled in the dark Last Line: The why that winters come, and aprils go. Subject(s): Ignorance; Winter; Dullness; Stupdity THE WITHERING OF THE BOUGHS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cried when the moon was murmuring to the birds Last Line: The boughs have withered because I have told them my dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Winter; Dreams THE YOUNG CATS' CLUB FOR POETRY-MUSIC, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The philharmonic young cats' club Last Line: And simper'd and look'd the wiser. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Winter THERE IS A BUDDING MORROW IN MIDNIGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wintry boughs against a wintry sky Last Line: Or about to break. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Winter THERE IT IS!, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let it go, then; let it go! Last Line: Loving you, to doubt you! Subject(s): Life; Love; Pity; Spring; Winter THERE'S A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On the look of death Subject(s): Winter; Light; Death THESE ARE THE DAYS THAT REINDEER LOVE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And finland of the year Subject(s): Winter; Finland THESE DEATHY LEAVES, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though the grey year scatter these deathy leaves Last Line: With a quick sculpture of a fresh grace. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Leaves; Winter THEY DON'T JUST GO AWAY, EITHER, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In scandinavia, where snow falls frequently Last Line: And the rabbit who await us in the dooryard Subject(s): Children; Memory; Winter THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 12, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now winter nights enlarge / the number of their hours Last Line: They shorten tedious nights. Variant Title(s): Winter Nights Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Night; Parties; Winter; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Bedtime THIS WAS IN THE WHITE OF THE YEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sometimes, almost more Subject(s): Spring; Winter; Memory THIS WAY TO WINTER, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day by day Last Line: -- 'tis a hardy day! Subject(s): Winter THIS WINTER, by WENDY M. MNOOKIN Poem Source First Line: Nearly home from doing errands Last Line: Will easily give way in my hands Subject(s): Birds; Winter THIS WINTER THINGS HAVE CHANGED, by PESHA GERTLER Poem Source First Line: Remember the days Last Line: You have a wife Subject(s): Change; Relationships; Winter THIS WORLD'S JOY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Wynter wakeneth al my care Last Line: "for y not whider y shal, ne hou longe her duella" Variant Title(s): A Winter Song Subject(s): Winter THISTLEDOWN: 9. WINTER, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: The bare trees look like spectres in a shroud Last Line: Ah, winter's face looks lean and pinched and pale. Subject(s): Winter THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Sundays too my father got up early Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Fathers; Home; Men; Sabbath; Winter; Childhood; Relatives; Sunday THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sundays too my father got up early Last Line: What did I know, what did I know %of love's austere and lonely offices? Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Fathers; Home; Men; Sabbath; Winter THOUGHT IN WHITE WINTER, by MARGUERITE E. ROSEBERY Poem Text First Line: The mountains high are white with snow Last Line: For human pity's sake. Subject(s): Cold; Rocky Mountain Range; Snow; White (color); Winter THOUGHTS ON WINTER, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Few long-time city dwellers who move to the country for peace and quiet Last Line: I was able to accomplish all that in just three hours, and the guys at the firestone didn't get a ce Subject(s): Winter; Country Life THREE TREES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The pine-tree grew in the wood Subject(s): Nature; Winter THRUSH, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When winter's dead Last Line: And that's ahead and behind Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes; Winter TIRED OF SNOW, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The world is tired of snow Last Line: We want to welcome spring! Subject(s): March (month); Snow; Winter TO A COLD BEAUTY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, wouldst thou heiress be Last Line: It is no snow, but flow'r of may! Subject(s): Cold; Love - Complaints; Winter TO A MOTH SEEN IN WINTER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's first a gloveless hand warm from my pocket Last Line: Who am tasked to save my own a little while. Subject(s): Moths; Winter TO HAMPSTEAD (2), by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter has reached thee once again at last Last Line: The second, and the last, away from thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Hampstead, England; Winter TO HIS HONOURED KINSMAN, SIR WILLIAM SOAME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can but name thee, and methinks I call Last Line: As benjamin, and storax, when they meet. Subject(s): Winter TO LARR, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more shall I, since I am driven hence Last Line: Warme by a glit'ring chimnie all the yeare. Subject(s): Winter TO MARCUS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have been far, and I Last Line: We shall succeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Christianity; Friendship; Future; Winter TO MY HOCKEY STICK, by VIOLET HELEN FRIEDLAENDER Poem Source First Line: Time's up! The season starting next october Subject(s): Sports; Winter TO PROTECT ITSELF THIS POND, by SIMON PERCHIK Poem Source Last Line: And the now invisible silence Subject(s): Ice; Lakes; Winter TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 3. WINTER, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, singularly moved Last Line: By something still more tranquil. Subject(s): Winter TO WINTER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O winter! Bar thine adamantine doors Last Line: Is driv'n yelling to his caves beneath mount hecla. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Winter TO WINTER, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, season of calm love and soulful snows! Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Winter TO WINTER, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Power of the awful wind, whose hollow blast Last Line: Spangling the icy robe that wraps thy breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Winter TOBOGGAN SONG, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Source First Line: Tonight, how crisp the air Subject(s): Sports; Winter TOKENS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green mwold on zummer bars do show Last Line: To eyezight's woone, but two to thought. Subject(s): Grass; Seasons; Storms; Summer; Winter TOWARD WINTER; FOUR FRAGMENTS: 1, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sliab cua, dark and broken, is full of wolf packs Last Line: And the crane cries out across its rocks Subject(s): Winter TOWARD WINTER; FOUR FRAGMENTS: 2, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The night is cold on the great bog Last Line: Echoing through the cowering wood Subject(s): Winter TOWARD WINTER; FOUR FRAGMENTS: 3, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We are shattered and battered, engulfed Last Line: Swallowed in a red flame out of heaven Subject(s): Winter TOWARD WINTER; FOUR FRAGMENTS: 4, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Want and winter are upon us Last Line: The pleasant wave has started muttering Subject(s): Winter TRACKIN' RABBITS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The fleecy flakes come fallin' down Subject(s): Sports; Winter TRANSIT MUNDUS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another winter comes. The last comes soon, I know Last Line: Though after me one come, and take the abandoned place. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fortune; France; Life; Moon; Winter TREE WITH ORNAMENTS BY MY MOTHER, by ELIZABETH MACKLIN Poem Source First Line: It could be a wintering bear this year Last Line: Invisible bird fir fragrance, who says they could even be broken Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Trees; Trees; Winter TREES IN WINTER, by ARTHUR WILLIAM BEER Poem Text First Line: Like ghosts of happier days, they stand Last Line: Abroad their canopy of spring. Subject(s): Death; Trees; Winter; Dead, The TREES IN WINTER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through a dumb-shifting veil of snow Last Line: Into a tranced immensity. Subject(s): Snow; Trees; Winter TRISTIA: WINTER AT TOMI, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Snow lies deep: nor sun nor melting shower Last Line: And horses' hoofs ring loud where once their oarsmen plied. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Death; Snow; Storms; Winter; Dead, The TRIUMPH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Despite the north wind's boast Last Line: "of ""life and victory!" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Survival; Winter TWAS HERE MY SUMMER PAUSED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Go manacle your icicle %against your tropic bride Variant Title(s): Poem: 1756; Poem: 177 Subject(s): Winter TWAS YESTERDAY AT EARLY DAWN, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Spring; Winter; Homecoming TWELFTH NIGHT SONG, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heaped be the fagots high Subject(s): Sports; Winter TWENTY POEMS OF ANNA AKHMATOVA: 1, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The memory of sun weakens [or, sickens] in my heart Last Line: It's possible. And this may be the first night of winter Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Winter TWO AND ONE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Two ears and only one mouth have you Subject(s): Nature; Winter TWO FOR THE FIRE: 1. LATE SPRING, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: The old wooden witch they call winter in the old country Last Line: If a heart were there Subject(s): Cold; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Winter TWO LITTLE KITTENS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Nature; Winter TWO PINES: 1. YUNG CHIA RECONSIDERED, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: A wind in the pine Last Line: What does it mean Subject(s): Cold; Pine Trees; Trees; Winter TWO RONDEAUX TO NEW YORK: 1. WINTER, by MAY FOLWELL HOISINGTON Poem Text First Line: I love new york in winter time Last Line: I love new york! Subject(s): New York City; Winter; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TWO SEASONS, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: Winter, stalking like a crane, cold stitched on bone Last Line: Sing, sing you symbols! Bless me, and bless the weed! Subject(s): Spring; Winter UNDAUNTED EVERGREENS, by MARY JANE CARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The evergreens stand proudly now Last Line: And sing triumphantly of spring! Subject(s): Storms; Trees; Winter UNDER THE SNOWS, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Thousands of things do the soft snows cover Last Line: Will there ever a spring-tide be for the heart? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Snow; Winter; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones UNKNOWN TERRAIN: THE LANDSCAPES OF ANDREW WYETH [WHITNEY MUSEUM 1998], by FRANCES RICHEY Poem Source First Line: [1. Winter fields for gail] it isn't the crow talons crossed Last Line: Holding itself up to the cold the wind %the beauty of the root Subject(s): Nature; Winter UNREST IN AUTUMN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Beside my window sighs the last lone rose Last Line: Ah, god! Ah, god! And I am growing old. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Seasons; Winter; Fall UNTIL AT LENGTH THE NORTH WINDS BLOW, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Leaving behind the cold, cold year Subject(s): Winter; Geese; Time UNTITLED, by GEOFFREY+(1) O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: The snow was the future perfect of snow Last Line: As I will have been, seized from voice like ice Subject(s): Future; Perfection; Snow; Winter VENICE IN WINTER, by ED ROSSMANN Poem Source First Line: Venice in winter: the sea is gray Last Line: And stirs a tall drink with a spoon Subject(s): Venice, Italy; Winter VERSES FOR PICTURES: WINTER, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am winter, that do keep Last Line: What should be remembered? Variant Title(s): The Seasons: Winter Subject(s): Winter VERY STRONG FEBRUARY, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man and a woman pretend to be white ice Subject(s): Time; Winter VESPERS, by LOUIS MERCIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a sunday at home Last Line: Vespers sound. Subject(s): Calm; Grief; Peace; Silence; Winter; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Sorrow; Sadness VIOLIN SONGS: HOPE DEFERRED, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is come again. The sun is bright Last Line: And summer winds were out! Subject(s): Death; Despair; Future Life; God; Hope; Seasons; Summer; Winter; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism VIOLIN SONGS: WINTER SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were parted then at last? Last Line: Why will it not go by! Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Winter; Parting WAKNG IN WINTER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can taste the tin of the sky --- the real tin thing. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Winter WALKING IN JANUARY, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: Along the roads january wears Last Line: We can turn, walking or running, and be saved Subject(s): Winter WALKING WITH FATHER IN COLORADO, by ROBERT KING Poem Source First Line: Everywhere I followed him back in time Last Line: I knelt and drank from the shining in my hands Subject(s): Colorado (state); Snow; Travel; Winter WATCHFUL WAITING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Nothing to do but sit around-- Last Line: Muster their clans in the south! Subject(s): Baseball; Longing; Sports; Waiting; Winter WATER, WINTER, FIRE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the little light of dawn Last Line: Now it is useless to be home. Subject(s): Death; Fire; Home; Loss; Water; Winter; Dead, The WE MIGHT CHANGE, by JAMES DENBOER Poem Source First Line: The geese feel the low pressure Last Line: Choose-live until spring Subject(s): Cold; December; Feathers; Geese; Winter WE WALKED OUT OF THE HOSPITAL, by JESSICA GREENBAUM Poem Source First Line: On a mild early evening Last Line: And the time of timelessness was over Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Winter WEATHER VANE, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the roof of my sweetheart's house the wind toys Last Line: What do they care about my pain? Their child is %a rich bride Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter WELCOME TO WINTER, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, with wild and windy roar Last Line: All the wildwood's overthrown! Subject(s): Winter WHAT CHRI'MAS FETCHED THE WIGGINSES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter-time, er summertime Last Line: "n' take the town o' chinkypin!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Churches; Summer; Winter; Nativity, The; Cathedrals WHAT DICK AN' I DID, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last week the browns ax'd nearly all Last Line: As bad as na'r a tun, min. Subject(s): Parties; Practical Jokes; Revenge; Winter; Pranks WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE DEAD TREES...', by CATHERINE FUCHS Poem Source Last Line: To speak of light %- our possible comparison Subject(s): Trees; Winter WHAT THE COAL SAYS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am as black as black can be Subject(s): Nature; Winter WHAT THE SNOWBIRDS SAID, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Cheep, cheep,' said some little snowbirds Subject(s): Nature; Winter WHAT THE SWALLOWS SAY, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Dry leaves drop silently and cover Last Line: With swallows to eternal spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Migration; Swallows; Winter WHAT'S LEFT OF FALL, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Crisp leaf litter %under snowy glitter Last Line: And that is all %that's left of fall Subject(s): Winter WHEN WINTER COMES, by PEARL CROOKS Poem Text First Line: When winter comes with its chilly blast Last Line: Unfolding itself about us, when winter comes. Subject(s): Memory; Winter WHEN WINTER COMES, by NANCY VAN LAAN Poem Source First Line: Where oh where do the leaves all go Last Line: Snuggling deep. %fast asleep Subject(s): Animals; Winter WHEN WINTER SNOWS HAVE FALLEN, by VINA BRUCE CHILTON Poem Text First Line: When winter snows have fallen in the night Last Line: Were it not so, my hope to me were vain! Alternate Author Name(s): Chilton, V. Bruce Subject(s): Winter WHERE DO ALL THE DAISIES GO?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: That is where they go! Subject(s): Babies;birds;daisies;flowers;mothers;winter; Infants WHERE IT IS WINTER, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now there is frost upon the hill Last Line: And no more spring. Subject(s): Winter WHILE THEY BURN, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: The moment to speak of snow has arrived, while the utensils Last Line: And at times the furtive call of waters Subject(s): Snow; Winter WHITE CITY, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shirtsleeved, walking out into the spring, occasionally Last Line: Forever vanishing between our bodies Subject(s): Desire; Weather; Winter WHITE EVENING, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On hills, beneath the steely skies Subject(s): Sports; Winter WHITE FIELDS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the winter time we go Last Line: Where it is the children go. Subject(s): Snow; Winter WHITE SHROUDS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From our kitchen window I watched the hard sleet chipping Last Line: To husband the small logs, two at a time, onto the fire. Subject(s): Cold; Homeless; Marriage; Winter; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WHITE WORLDS, by H. GANDY Poem Source First Line: Like cameos carved on a purple sky Subject(s): Sports; Winter WHITE-EYES, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In winter / all the singing is in Subject(s): Birds; Winter WHITENESS, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: What thing than the lily unstained is more white? Last Line: Till it rests on your shoulders, a marvel to see! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Snow; Winter WHY FREEZE, by HANU Poem Source First Line: Why freeze to sleep Last Line: Tonight, I'll have a sleep that thaws Subject(s): Cold; Dreams; Frost; Sleep; Solitude; Winter WILD GEESE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When naked winter on the midnight falls Last Line: Or spirit choirs dark-flying towards some dawn? Subject(s): Geese; Stars; Winter WILD WEATHER, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Portents and prodigies have grown so frequent Subject(s): Winter WILL-O'-THE-WISP, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have been lured deep into the rocky gorges by a Last Line: Every stream eventually arrives at the sea, every suffering %at its grave Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter WIND CHILL, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The door of winter Subject(s): Winter WINDOWS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quarried from snow, the dark walks lead to doors Last Line: It moves so slowly that it does not move Subject(s): Winter; Solitude WINTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Where are the flowers? Where the leaves? Last Line: Love only dies to live above Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Thou dark-robed man with solemn pace Last Line: Though angels sang when they had birth Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by MARY BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: The wind blows high, the wind blows low Last Line: All silent, white. Subject(s): Frost; Hunger; Snow; Wind; Winter WINTER, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast thy beauties: sterner ones I own Last Line: Like pale, but lovely ones, seen when we dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pointed icicles hung on my porch in the moonlight / glittering bright Last Line: In my unfaith! Subject(s): Cold; Ice; Seasons; Silence; Snow; Winter WINTER, by JONAS BROWN Poem Source First Line: It's winter Last Line: Just woken, %or just having cried Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by JOHN HOWARD BRYANT Poem Text First Line: The day had been a calm and sunny day Last Line: Stood like hoar priests in robes of white arrayed. Subject(s): Nature; Winter WINTER, by ALICE CARSON Poem Text First Line: Wind over ice, snow across snow Last Line: Who have fires by day and covers at night! Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flute, whence summer's dreamy fingertips Last Line: Each bush with bloom, in snow commemorative. Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by DAVID CHORLTON Poem Source First Line: The cold arrives with barrels of new wine Last Line: But for the sound of a thief's footsteps %on an invisible bridge Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The small wind whispers through the leafless hedge Last Line: And hoarse loud bellows puffing up the blaze. Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS Poem Text First Line: Old winter is the man for me Last Line: And cannot choose but shiver. Alternate Author Name(s): Asmus Subject(s): Nature; Winter WINTER, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know 'tis good that old winter should come Last Line: He serveth his maker who aideth the poor. Subject(s): Charity; Winter; Philanthropy WINTER, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, hark, I hear the north wind roar Last Line: With love and wine, can know no harm. Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: A glittering mantle of spotless white Last Line: And the warm, sweet spring-tide into the heart. Subject(s): Seasons; Snow; Winter WINTER, by RUTH CURTIS DOUGLAS Poem Text First Line: A calm, pure beauty fills a winter day Last Line: That lifts the soul and sets the heart at ease. Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by ELIZABETH EBELTOFT Poem Text First Line: With crystal needle, flashing bright Last Line: Above their regal robes of white. Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What did winter mutter? / o ye frozen ponds Last Line: Winter's come! Subject(s): Nature; Winter WINTER, by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: A crow arrives and perches in the tree Last Line: That no one could not say is good Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Winter WINTER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loud blaw the wild an' wintry win's Last Line: To help puir, needfu' workin' men. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cold may burn us sadly Last Line: And scanning verses loving. Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by ANNE HINCHMAN Poem Text First Line: Have you seen a blue jay flash through a snowstorm? Last Line: And I could see nothing but snow. Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Snow; Winter; Woods WINTER, by WYTHEL M. HUNT Poem Text First Line: Barren trees are whipped by winds Last Line: For plate or plaque! Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by ANNE (HOME) HUNTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the gloomy tyrant's awful form Last Line: Casts round her haggard eyes, and shivers at the frost. Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First light shook with ax blows to the frozen pond Subject(s): Ice; Winter WINTER, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First light shook with ax blows to the frozen pond Last Line: And like sorrow, waits and will not fade Subject(s): Ice; Winter WINTER, by ROSE CAROLYN KATTERHENRY Poem Text First Line: Limbs abare, icy stare Last Line: A fleecy white blanket to cover its nudity. Subject(s): Change; Winter WINTER, by KIM OK Poem Source First Line: Limbs jerking upright Last Line: Never tell me life can be whipped to death. %all comes back to life again in spring Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by ALEKSEI KRUCHENYKH Poem Source First Line: Fzorz... %zunn... %itseeen... %winter! Last Line: All the dogs %croaked! Subject(s): Cold; Seasons; Snow; Winter WINTER, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the field, two horses Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the field, two horses Last Line: That to the static %gold winter sun throws back %endless and cloudless pride Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by LULJETA LLESHANAKU Poem Source First Line: Winter approaches Last Line: Afraid of shattering Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bird sings not in wintertime Subject(s): Transcendentalism; Winter WINTER, by PAUL MAYER Poem Text First Line: All the roads are lost Last Line: And pecks his breast and side. Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a gray aftertoon, blank as to freeze Subject(s): Winter; Sickness; Illness WINTER, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Winter blew it all night long Last Line: Winter's substance is the sum. Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by ESTELLE HALE PERRY Poem Text First Line: The fields were brown and sear Last Line: I had seen god's signature. Subject(s): Nature; Winter WINTER, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sky above is an icy blue Last Line: Silent the snow-encompassed land. Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by IDA CHAPMAN RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: The frigid, chilling cold outside Last Line: Of hearth, and cheerfulness complete! Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet blackbird is silenced with chaffinch and thrush Last Line: Till he sings us the very best song that he can. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How large that thrush looks on the bare thorn-tree! Last Line: And leave memorial forest-kings o'erthrown. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A diamond glow of winter o'er the world Last Line: Or, knowing, it is gone. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Nature; Winter WINTER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I deem thee not unlovely, though thou com'st Last Line: To the eternal banquet. Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by JIM SIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: Has bent the backs of these trees back Last Line: Rears up to say pleased to meet you Subject(s): Cold; Death; Funerals; Snow; Winter WINTER, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dagobert lay in front of the fire Last Line: And ripens not in the heart or head! Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by E. H. SMITH Poem Text First Line: The naked trees rattle their gaunt limbs Last Line: After death will spring come again? Subject(s): Cold; Frost; Seasons; Winter WINTER, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall have winter now and lessening days Last Line: And make my life of what I can remember. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by BJARNI THORARENSEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who rides with such fury Last Line: From the head of age. Alternate Author Name(s): Bjarn Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Husk,' says the north wind. 'chuckhole. Hoarfrost.' yellow Last Line: The asian flu launches itsmidget submarines. %rosebud Subject(s): Sickness; Winter WINTER, by TSURAYUKI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When falls the snow, lo! Every herb and tree Last Line: That ne'er in spring were known upon the lea. Alternate Author Name(s): Ki No Tsurayuki Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now winter as a shrivelled scroll Last Line: Wanders by wood and waterway. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Winter WINTER, by JESSIE E. WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: In vain, majestic sepulcher Last Line: Of what avail -- of what avail? Subject(s): Winter WINTER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Winter is the flower's pause Last Line: Buds and life running over Subject(s): Winter WINTER (1), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green mistletoe! Last Line: Snow, snow, more snow!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Winter WINTER (2), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold and raw the north wind doth blow Last Line: And winter's now come fairly Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Winter WINTER (A DIRGE), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wintry wast extends his blast Last Line: Assist me to resign. Subject(s): Winter WINTER 1939, by HENRY TREECE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: On this frost-time pilfering plover Subject(s): Winter WINTER ABROAD, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On blithesome frolics bent, the youthful Subject(s): Sports; Winter WINTER AND SUMMER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winter goes and the summer comes Last Line: And the snow drifts over our sightless eyes. Subject(s): Summer; Winter WINTER AND SUMMER, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within my head, aches the perpetual winter Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Despair; Summer; Winter WINTER AND SUMMER, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within my head, aches the perpetual winter Last Line: The garden, falsified by snow, %waiting to melt, and become real again Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Despair; Summer; Winter WINTER AND THE NUTHATCH, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once or twice and maybe again, who knows Subject(s): Nuthatches; Winter WINTER APPLES, by HARRIET WHITNEY DURBIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What cheer is there that is half so good Alternate Author Name(s): Whitney, Hattie Subject(s): Nature; Winter WINTER BURIAL, by HENRY BELLAMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, will you be kind to her Last Line: Next spring? Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Winter; Dead, The; Burials WINTER BURN, by ROBERTA HILL WHITEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When birds breal open the sky, a smell of snow Last Line: You burn into the yellow grass of winter, %into one reed, trembling on the plain Alternate Author Name(s): Hill, Roberta Subject(s): Winter WINTER CAME, by BRONISLAVA VOLKOVA Poem Source First Line: The winter came Subject(s): Winter WINTER CAMP, by THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: The walls of log are thick and stout Alternate Author Name(s): Roberts, T. G. Subject(s): Sports; Winter WINTER CAMP FIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Above the mountain, bleak and bare Subject(s): Sports; Winter WINTER CHURNING IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's joy to churn on juney morns Last Line: "a piece of custard pie." Subject(s): December; Vermont; Winter WINTER COAST, by EDWARD BYRNE Poem Source First Line: In summer this coarse stretch of beach Last Line: Masses over uneven ground - a little %less remains of the world we once knew Subject(s): Sea; Winter WINTER COMING, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, thou art like an autumn to my days Last Line: Youth vanished, winter coming -- I and thou! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Winter WINTER CONCEPTION, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence in the forest's heart, and snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Winter WINTER COUNT IN MUDDY RIVER COUNTRY, by ROBERT KING Poem Source First Line: Cut the smooth skin of a buffalo calf Last Line: Into a whirlwind, gone before the next unwritten winter Subject(s): Winter WINTER DARK, by LILIAN MOORE Poem Source First Line: Winter dark comes early Last Line: Blinking %breathless %exclamation mark! Subject(s): Winter WINTER DARKNESS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Rain and the roadbank Last Line: Slashing across the cabin like a rock slab Subject(s): Winter WINTER DAWN, by KENNETH SLESSOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At five I wake, rise, rub on the smoking pane Subject(s): Winter; Morning; Nature WINTER DAY, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cock, warm roosting 'mid his feather'd mates Last Line: And, thankful for the roof that covers him, %hies him to bed Subject(s): Winter WINTER DAY, by LEON DIERX Poem Text First Line: This morning not one beam cleaves the cloud-blind Last Line: Then ponder on sleep and dark funerëal! Subject(s): Grief; Soul; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness WINTER DAY, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray misty world of snow Last Line: Gem-like on any winter-sacred bough. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Snow; Winter WINTER DAY, by STEFAN HORDUR GRIMSSON Poem Source First Line: From the land's frigid face Last Line: With mountains on their shoulders Subject(s): Winter WINTER DAY (1), by JOHN HEWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the first light when in the upland field Last Line: And the young moon ran headlong in the breeze, %this winter day has been a happy day Subject(s): Winter WINTER DAY (2), by JOHN HEWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When sun was winter high Last Line: The wet earth newly ploughed %was gashed with silver light Subject(s): Winter WINTER DAYS, by HENRY ABBEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now comes the graybeard of the north Last Line: De rohan staked a name to gain. Subject(s): Nature; Winter WINTER DAYS, by JEAN HOLMES MINTY Poem Text First Line: Today I think the fairest thing I know Last Line: On many winter days for one of peace. Subject(s): Introspection; Peace; Winter WINTER DISTANCES, by FANNY HOWE Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: When all these books are turf Subject(s): Winter WINTER DUSK, by ANDRE-FERDINAND HEROLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the earth the snow is falling Last Line: And the snow and the twilight are falling. Subject(s): Dusk; Snow; Winter WINTER DUSK, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prospect is bare and white Last Line: And wiggles its silver tail. Subject(s): Dusk; Sea; Winter; Ocean WINTER ECHO, by FRADL SHTOK Poem Source First Line: A little sleigh in the white snow Last Line: Buries their wedding-day Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Winter WINTER EVENING, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the very horses springing by Last Line: Glittering and still shall come the awful night. Subject(s): Evening; Winter; Sunset; Twilight WINTER FANCIES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter without / and warmth within Last Line: In the heart of a nut! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Wind; Winter WINTER FEAR, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it just winter Subject(s): Winter WINTER FIELD, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winter field is not Subject(s): Winter; Skating & Skaters; Ice WINTER FIRE, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The presence of nature in my winter room Last Line: That rise between our fate, and the lost garden. Subject(s): Fire; Nature; Winter WINTER FOOT NOTE, by BETSY WARLAND Poem Source First Line: The impossible expanse of groundsnow has melted Last Line: Certain footing now %a tightrope of ice Subject(s): Winter WINTER FORECAST, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: At the omnimax %seventy speakers recreate Last Line: Leaf, through imponderable drifts Subject(s): Winter WINTER FORECAST, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let it be a consolation to you that nothing Last Line: The hiders, the motionless, the terrible meek Subject(s): Winter WINTER FRIENDS, by SAMUEL L. SCHIERLOH Poem Text First Line: A winter tree, and a lone crow crying Last Line: For tree, and man, and bird, and beast. Subject(s): Winter WINTER GEESE, by JAMES MCCORKLE Poem Source First Line: Gray floater stain the eye's surface Last Line: Within an orbit oblivious to moon or stars, %beacons lit but vanishing Subject(s): Geese; Winter WINTER GENERATIONS, by JEFFREY SKINNER Poem Source First Line: When you think back it is all white Last Line: To their soccer practice in the snow Subject(s): Soccer; Winter WINTER GHAZAL, by MARK TRUSCOTT Poem Source First Line: Empty moments of the day: a tin star Last Line: Love, love. I am terrified. %this is real Subject(s): Death; Love; Winter WINTER GRIEF, by RUTH EVELYN REID Poem Text First Line: The day is heavy. The heart Last Line: Remain, although you die! Subject(s): Winter WINTER HEAVENS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sharp is the night, but stars with frost alive Last Line: And this is the soul's haven to have felt. Subject(s): Heaven; Night; Winter; Paradise; Bedtime WINTER HUNTERS, by ISAAC MCLELLAN JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mounted on snowshoes, with their food Subject(s): Sports; Winter WINTER IMPRINTS, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Miss you already %didn't feel your presence Last Line: Racketed feet venturing %silently amidst fir trees Subject(s): Winter WINTER IN CANADA, by J. L. LEPROHON Poem Source First Line: Nay, tell me not that with shivering fear Subject(s): Sports; Winter WINTER IN DURNOVER FIELD; TRIOLET, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Throughout the field I find no grain Last Line: The cruel frost encrusts the cornland! Subject(s): Birds; Winter WINTER IN LOWER CANADA, FR. THE EMIGRANT, by STANDISH HAYES O'GRADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou barren waste; unprofitable strand Last Line: And one sound policy conduct the whole. Subject(s): Canada; Winter; Canadians WINTER IN NEW YORK, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is the swish and swirl of rain and snow Last Line: But clean of fear and trembling Subject(s): Winter WINTER IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When is chicago not too cold or too hot? Last Line: Or at least keep kissing in the doorway Subject(s): Chicago; Cold; Weather; Winter WINTER IN SUMMER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All in a bleak december Last Line: I wot 'twas summer-time. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Summer; Winter WINTER IS GOOD - HIS HOAR DELIGHTS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But welcome when he goes Variant Title(s): Poem: 1316; Poem: 137 Subject(s): Winter WINTER KNOWS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: When a man's pockets %are empty Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Money; Nature; Poverty; Winter WINTER LAMBS, by JANE KENYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night snow came upon us Last Line: Agree or disagree Subject(s): Winter; Lambs; Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery WINTER MAGIC, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter that hath few friends yet numbers Last Line: Turning our leaden age to girl and boy. Subject(s): Winter WINTER MEMORIES, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the circuit of this plodding life Last Line: To go upon my winter's task again. Subject(s): Nature; Winter WINTER MEMORY OF SUMMER TRESPASS, by JAMES HARMS Poem Source First Line: Somewhat lovelier than snow Last Line: Not yet,' I said. 'wait a minute. Yes.' Subject(s): Memory; Winter WINTER MOODS, by LUCIA CLARK MARKHAM Poem Text First Line: The bare trees write their poems on the sky Last Line: As year by year the transient seasons range. Subject(s): Winter WINTER MORNING, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night the wind swept over the house Subject(s): Winter; Nature; Landscape WINTER MORNING, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars faded out of the paling sky Last Line: Borne on the morning wind, the wild duck came. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ducks; Morning; Winter; Mallards; Drakes WINTER MORNING ON THE FARM, by STELLA FLOWERS HASTINGS Poem Text First Line: The sweet fatigue of autumn-time has gone Last Line: Will disappear, never to return. Subject(s): Winter WINTER MUSIC, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: November and trees blown bare and leaves stippling Last Line: For wisdom, there is the sunlight falling unbent across such fury Subject(s): Winter WINTER MUSIC, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: November and trees blown bare and leaves stippling Last Line: For wisdom, there is the sunlight falling unbent across such fury Subject(s): Winter WINTER NIGHT, by NELLE ARNOLD Poem Text First Line: The last white star is hung against the sky Last Line: Sleeps still and warm. Subject(s): Night; Winter; Bedtime WINTER NIGHT, by CH'IEN WEN OF LIANG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My bed is so empty that I keep on waking up Last Line: Oh that those were waves which could carry me back to you! Alternate Author Name(s): Jian-wen; Xiao Gang; Ch'ien Wen-ti Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Longing; Winter WINTER NIGHT, by GORDON DALE CLARKE Poem Text First Line: How low the white, crescent moon Last Line: Its amazing clarity of cold. Subject(s): Winter WINTER NIGHT, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not bother to point out the moon Last Line: Burning warm and yellow in the night Subject(s): Night; Winter WINTER NIGHT, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are glittering in the frosty night Last Line: And forms more bright than diamond diadems. Variant Title(s): The Winter Galaxy Subject(s): Winter WINTER NIGHT, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the fierce rage of winter deep suffused Last Line: Lifts her pale eye unjoyous Variant Title(s): Frost At Nigh Subject(s): Winter WINTER NIGHT ON THE YENTNA RIVER, by ARLITIA JONES Poem Text First Line: If the lives we live depend on the stories we tell Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Winter WINTER NIGHT SONG, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will you come as of old with singing Last Line: Snow banking the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Winter WINTER NIGHTFALL, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day begins to droop Last Line: Of darkness and tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Dusk; Winter WINTER NIGHTS; A BACKWARD LOOK, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange chord! The weir-pool's tussling dance Last Line: Are the heart's invincible law. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Winter; English WINTER NOCTURNE, by BERNARD FREEMAN TROTTER Poem Source First Line: With me is revelry and light Subject(s): Sports; Winter WINTER OAKS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Oh, winter oaks, you give me courage Last Line: Spring's miracle so well? Subject(s): Oak Trees; Snow; Winter WINTER OWLS, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: Somewhere in rain Last Line: But who are they after? %who? Who? Subject(s): Winter WINTER OWNERSHIP, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it gathering snow on lash and lip Subject(s): Winter WINTER OWNERSHIP, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it gathering snow on lash and lip Last Line: He cuts steps darkly down to the very grass, %caressing contour, asserting ownership Subject(s): Winter WINTER PICTURES, by LEO J. RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little fairy snow-flakes Last Line: Of a fairy town. Subject(s): Snow; Winter WINTER PIECE, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Delicate ermine tracks Last Line: And watches their eyes through chinks in the ice Subject(s): Ice; Snow; Winter WINTER POEM, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The quivering wings of the winter ant Last Line: To breathe, to sense another, and to wait Subject(s): Winter; Ants; Relationships WINTER POEM, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a snowflake fell Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): African Americans; Winter; Negroes; American Blacks WINTER POEM, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a snowflake fell Last Line: A spring rain and I stood perfectly %still and was a flower Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): African Americans; Winter WINTER POETRY, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovers think that they alone possess / a sense of beauty Last Line: And the white snow embroidered with brown roots. Subject(s): Winter WINTER PRAYER, by KAREN PICONI Poem Source First Line: Help us to embrace winter, lord Last Line: Awesome promise of spring you offer Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Winter WINTER PRELUDE, by ALEX R. SCHMIDT Poem Text First Line: The smoky wind, raw throated, blows Last Line: I never heard in june. Subject(s): Winter WINTER PROMISES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tomatoes rosy as perfect baby's buttocks, Subject(s): Winter; Tomatoes; Promises WINTER QUESTION, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: What is cold and plump Last Line: Care to make a guess? %snow pillows! Subject(s): Winter WINTER QUIET, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Limb to limb, mouth to mouth Last Line: The ecstasy. Subject(s): Fields; Winter WINTER RAIN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Falling upon the frozen world last night Last Line: I look straight in the world's bold eyes, and smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Rain; Winter; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness WINTER RECALLED, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Life is not all for effort; there are hours Subject(s): Sports; Winter WINTER RECOLLECTION, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: Winter's trees are windowed Last Line: We rest upon our shining wars Subject(s): Winter WINTER REGRETS, by BILL KNOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The snow on my ladder's rungs Last Line: All the undone chores must wait Alternate Author Name(s): Saint Geraud; Knott, William Subject(s): Winter WINTER REMEMBERED, by RANSOM. JOHN CROWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Subject(s): Winter; Absence; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness WINTER ROADS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the spring thaw Last Line: Looking for winter Subject(s): Autumn; Roads; Seasons; Spring; Winter; Fall; Paths; Trails WINTER ROSES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My garden roses long ago Last Line: The heart of sharon's rose! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Winter WINTER SCENE, by JOHN BENSKO Poem Source First Line: The boys are playing cards again, late night Last Line: He warms himself, pets the sleeping dog Subject(s): Winter WINTER SCENE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Where have the colors all gone to Last Line: And black, like the black and white day Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Snow; Winter WINTER SCENE, by FRIEDRICH ADOLF AXEL DETLEV VON LILIENCRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perched on his bough, a monster raven makes Last Line: And how that pickled herring makes a show! Alternate Author Name(s): Liliencron, Detlev Von Subject(s): Winter WINTER SCENERY, JANUARY, 1809, by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dark sky lours: a crimson streak Last Line: The daemon desolation reigns! Subject(s): Desolation; Winter WINTER SHOES, by GRACE SAYRE Poem Text First Line: Spring wears shoes of softest green Last Line: Walks in eiderdown. Subject(s): Winter WINTER SLEEP, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know it must be winter (though I sleep) Last Line: And turf-bound silence, in the frosty year. Subject(s): Winter WINTER SLEEP, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When against earth a wooden heel Last Line: Soft, soft, soft, and deep, deep, deep! Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Sleep; Winter WINTER SOLSTICE, by IRENE ZIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: The haloed moon Last Line: Ever new %o-antiphon Subject(s): Moon; Winter WINTER SOLSTICE CHANT, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Vines, leaves, roots of darkness, growing, Subject(s): Winter WINTER SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Winter wakeneth all my care Last Line: Nor how long I here may dwell! Subject(s): Winter WINTER SONG, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through moveless pines I hear the air Last Line: We must simplify our song. Subject(s): Winter WINTER SONG, by LUDWIG HENRICH CHRISTOPH HOLTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer joys are o'er Last Line: Of the long, long nights. Subject(s): Nature; Winter WINTER SONG, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Came the dread archer up yonder lawn Last Line: And the old stars lived in their homes on high Subject(s): Singing And Singers; Winter WINTER SONG, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain and wind, and wind and rain Last Line: Hail and ice, and ice and hail. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Winter WINTER SONG FOR THE SLEIGH, by C. P. TRAILL Poem Source First Line: Hurrah for the forest - the wild pine-wood Subject(s): Sports; Winter WINTER SPEEDING, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Source First Line: Robe-wrapped and capped, with faces bold Subject(s): Sports; Winter WINTER SPORTS, by ISAAC MCLELLAN JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Slow sinks the golden sun behind the woods Subject(s): Sports; Winter WINTER STARS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went out at night alone Last Line: The faithful beauty of the stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Stars; Winter WINTER STOLSICE, by Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cold night crosses Last Line: (the dance unmoving) Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs. Subject(s): Winter; Cold; Moon; Earth WINTER STUDY, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two days of snow, then ice Subject(s): Winter; Deer WINTER SUN, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: The small winter sun Last Line: But also a breathing in Subject(s): Hunger; Music And Musicians; Winter WINTER SUNRISE, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our valley's liquid throat is choked Last Line: An avalanche, and lawless wills %fall out of patience with perfection Subject(s): Winter WINTER SUNSET, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: Not in a cringing way Last Line: Goes down to die. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Winter; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The WINTER SUNSET, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a sorrowful sunset we had tonight Last Line: Of this rotten brain which was the earth, one day. Subject(s): Despair; Evening; Winter; Sunset; Twilight WINTER SUNSET, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then I raised my head Last Line: They'd set there. Subject(s): Evening; Winter WINTER SUNSHINE, by THOMAS EKENHEAD MAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the bitter frost and snow Last Line: Time leaves in his hungry flight. Subject(s): Winter WINTER TREE, by WALTER R. ADAMS Poem Text First Line: To leaves that crooned in sun and rain Last Line: The flame about our feet. Subject(s): Trees; Winter WINTER TREES, by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS Poem Text First Line: Over their stark austerity the trees Last Line: To sing, and winds to stir with passionate words. Subject(s): Birds; Pride; Trees; Winter; Self-esteem; Self-respect WINTER TREES, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wet dawn inks are doing their blue dissolve Last Line: The shadows of ringdoves chanting, but easing nothing Subject(s): Trees; Winter WINTER TREES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the sky, across the snow Last Line: And winter trees are beautiful. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Forests; Nature; Trees; Winter; Woods WINTER TWILIGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little while ago and you might see Last Line: Moves nightward, merges into mystery. Subject(s): Evening; Snow; Trees; Winter; Sunset; Twilight WINTER UPLANDS, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The frost that stings like fire upon my cheek Subject(s): Sports; Winter WINTER WALK, by TWYLA HANSEN Poem Source First Line: The artist selects pink Last Line: Another day is about to begin Subject(s): Walking; Winter WINTER WATER, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: This bright, irregular disk of ice Last Line: For fusing water into a jewel. Subject(s): Winter WINTER WEATHER, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When elem stems do rise, in row Last Line: Wi' cwold, in winter weather Subject(s): Winter WINTER WEATHER, by JAMES WREFORD WATSON Poem Text First Line: Wintering time and weather with Last Line: Eternity, but not this hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Wreford, James Subject(s): Love; Winter WINTER WHEAT, by EVA WILLES WANGSGAARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lie these seeded furrows under snow Last Line: Find loam will break as surely from the dark? Subject(s): Wheat; Winter WINTER WITCHERY, by ESTELLE JEAN WORFOLK Poem Text First Line: Celestial art / etching of leaves in winter dress Last Line: Upon my window-pane. Subject(s): Winter WINTER WITH THE GULF STREAM, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boughs, the boughs are bare enough Last Line: Drops out and all our day is done. Subject(s): Winter WINTER WIZARDRY, by LAURA S. BECK Poem Text First Line: Who could have dreamed / so many branches in Last Line: Bare branches etched against the sky. Subject(s): Trees; Winter WINTER WOODS WITHOUT SNOW, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: The rain here leaves everything dark Last Line: And nostrils: skin keeps remembrance %like a rind Subject(s): Forests; Winter; Wyoming WINTER'S APPRENTICE, by JESSICA HORNIK Poem Source First Line: The leaves seem to be hanging on okay, still green Last Line: Like subtleties slipping by not quite unnoticed Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Trees; Winter WINTER'S APPROACH, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: De sun hit shine an' de win' hit blow Last Line: Dey know. Subject(s): Winter WINTER'S BEAUTY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Is it not fine to walk in spring Last Line: In soft white gloves of purest snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Winter WINTER'S FIVE MILES AWAY, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Division street's gravel Last Line: Tomorrow, the eskimo snorts, %will kick like a moose Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Travel; Winter WINTER'S GAZE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lean like a ladder and with my face Subject(s): Winter WINTER'S ONSET FROM AN ALIENATED POINT OF VIEW, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first cold front came in Subject(s): Winter WINTER'S SNOW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Soft clinging robe of purest white Last Line: Beneath the sun of day. Subject(s): Seasons; Silence; Snow; White (color); Winter WINTER'S TALE, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA Poem Source First Line: It is a winter night. Fever and chill Last Line: Is this embrace. The sky above us palls, %and the blue snow melts about us as it falls Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert Subject(s): Winter WINTER'S TALE, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: She is stranded on a ladder Last Line: Exit: pursued by a bear Subject(s): Snow; Winter WINTER, 1825, by SAMUEL WOODWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor is stern winter's icy sceptre swayed Last Line: Till new-year's happy morning crown'd the whole. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; New York City - 19th Century; Seasons; Winter; Nativity, The WINTER, BEFORE THE WAR, by WACLAW POTOCKI Poem Source First Line: The forst bit deep. When heavy guns were dragged Last Line: And winter fell from heaven to this hard floor Subject(s): War; Winter WINTER, FR. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When icicles hang by the wall Last Line: While greasy joan doth keel the pot. Variant Title(s): Tu-whit To-who Subject(s): Winter WINTER, ROCK CREEK PARK, by KIM ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: In this scene, a thick wet february snow Last Line: Like snow, a white place we must be reminded %from time to time to enter Subject(s): Winter WINTER-FEAR, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain has come Last Line: The sun, then, god! What agony these days of rain! Subject(s): Fear; Rain; Wind; Winter WINTER-PIECE, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wake, all the windows blind - embattled sprays Last Line: Frost-fronds all streaming Subject(s): Winter WINTER-SONG, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, who would be sad tho' the sky be a-graying Last Line: For winter's white birds here's a cheery heigho! Subject(s): Winter WINTER. THE FOURTH PASTORAL, OR DAPHNE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thyrsis, the musick of that murm'ring spring Last Line: Daphne farewell, and all the world adieu! Subject(s): Winter WINTER: 1. DAYBREAK, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slow clear away the misty shades of morn Last Line: O, take not in fierce tyrannies delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Morning; Winter WINTER: 2. SNOW-STORM, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How gloom the clouds! Quite stifled is the ray Last Line: Of thee, the dread avatar is reveal'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Snow; Winter WINTER: 3. CLEAR FROST, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis noon, the heaven is clear without a cloud Last Line: He had no chains to bind the spirit's flow. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Frost; Winter WINTER: 4. MOONLIGHT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the mountain peaks how sharply lined Last Line: So breathless is the sceneso hush'dso still! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Evening; Winter; Sunset; Twilight WINTER: 5. CHANGE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O! Sweetly beautiful it is to mark Last Line: And, mocking earth, bid man's thoughts point on high. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Winter WINTER: EAST ANGLIA, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a frosty sunset Last Line: And hard as winter dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Winter; English WINTER: MY SECRET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tell my secret? No indeed, not I Last Line: Or you may guess. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): My Secret Subject(s): Secrets; Winter WINTER: TEXAS PLAINS, by HOLLIS WILLIAM SCHREIBER Poem Text First Line: This night Last Line: And the great loneliness seems strangely like a friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Schreiber, H. W. Subject(s): Solitude; Winter; Loneliness WINTER: WOMAN LOOKING FROM THE WINDOW AT A SPRUCE TREE, by MARYANN WHALEN Poem Source First Line: The sunlight catches in the heart Last Line: And is that now, ineffably held Subject(s): Nature; Winter WINTER; HAIKU, by JOSO Poem Source First Line: Mountains and plains Subject(s): Winter WINTER; THE JERSEY COAST, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the river's level sheet of ice Last Line: Loom hostelries whose summer guests have flown. Subject(s): New Jersey; Seashore; Winter; Beach; Coast; Shore WINTERLIGHT, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I seen at evening by the lake Last Line: To stencil a frosted pavement with jagged gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Winter WINTERLINES, by DANIEL GUTSTEIN Poem Text First Line: You're somebody who deals Subject(s): Hands; Ugliness; Winter WINTERS ARE SO SHORT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And no one credits noah Variant Title(s): Poem: 403; Poem: 53 Subject(s): Winter WINTERS PASS, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never let it be said Last Line: A gray rabbit jumping noiselessly. Subject(s): Winter WINTERTIME, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: My little love, the winter-time is nigh Last Line: ... And mine is done. Subject(s): Winter WINTERTIME, by ELEANOR MCGUIRE Poem Source First Line: Spring is a monochrome Last Line: The white-gold sunbeam %lighting a crystal ballet Subject(s): Colors; Winter WINTERTIME, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late lies the wintry sun abed Last Line: Are frosted like a wedding-cake. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 38 Subject(s): Winter WINTRY MIND, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter uncovers distances, I find Last Line: Field upon field, field upon field, of snow Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Winter WINTRY PARIS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, the dingy winter days" Last Line: When contrasted with the blues I had in paris Subject(s): "new York City;paris, France;winter;" "manhattan;new York, New York;the Big Apple; WINTRY WEATHER, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O winter! Wilt thou never, never go? Last Line: Through the white spaces of infinitude. Variant Title(s): In The Shadows: 22 Subject(s): Nature; Winter WINTRY WEATHER, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now winter turns the roadway white Last Line: Whose light is as the sheen of stars! Subject(s): Love; Weather; Winter WINTRY WINDS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wintry wind blows down the village Last Line: Lounged along the open road, they played and dreamed throughout a busy land. Subject(s): Wind; Winter WISCONSIN IN FEB-B-RR-UARY, by LEE BENNETT HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: B-rr, b-rr, b-rr, b-rr Last Line: Enough of feb-b-rr-uary! Subject(s): Winter; Wisconsin WISCONSIN WINTER NIGHT, by HARRIETT A. LIGHTFOOT Poem Text First Line: The moon, cold empress of the night Last Line: With zero breath the day awakes. Subject(s): Night; Winter; Bedtime WISH, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Weeks %since leaves fell, august outlived, licks of Last Line: The dim surround, night breaking free, relinquishing %its dark cloth Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Winter WITH GOOD STEEL RINGING, by COULSON KERNAHAN Poem Source First Line: When the wan white moon in the skies feels Subject(s): Sports; Winter WOLF HUNT, by WALLACE DAVID COBURN Poem Source First Line: Over the hills on a winter's morn Subject(s): Sports; Winter WOLVERINE WINTER, by PAUL F. SIFTON Poem Source First Line: The chickadee came in the morning Subject(s): Sports; Winter WOODS IN WINTER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When winter winds are piercing chill Last Line: I listen, and it cheers me long. Subject(s): Forests; Winter; Woods WORD ABOUT WINTER, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the frost is on the pane Last Line: Husband now, without disgrace, %dumps ashtrays in the fireplace Subject(s): Winter WORDLESS WINTER, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who cares what name you call it - here is comes Last Line: Felt the dark cadence castigate his arm Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Psychiatric Hospitals; Winter; Writing And Writers WORKS AND DAYS: ANATOMY OF WINTER, by HESIOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In february come foul days, flee them gin ye may Last Line: Is ruggan at thwankan cluddis thruschit by thracian boreas Subject(s): Scottish Translations; Winter WORKS AND DAYS: THE FARMER'S YEAR: WINTER, by HESIOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beware the month of lenaion - foul days Subject(s): Farm Life; Winter WORKS AND DAYS: WINTER, by HESIOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aroint the january month! The bad days fit to skin Last Line: And trust your mother earth her various fruitage to renew. Subject(s): Animals; Winter WORLDLY SUCCESS, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A winter world. Ways icy. Most men fall Subject(s): Winter; Ice WRECKING YARD, by MARTIN WALLS Poem Source First Line: Midwinter.An oilstone sky.The river's diesel-slow frieght of ice Last Line: Worlds geared inside worlds Subject(s): Ice; Indiana; Winter WRITTEN IN A WINTER'S MORNING, by B. FINCH Poem Text First Line: Though storms and tempests mark thy gloomy reign Last Line: Warbles his vespers clear, at twilight's sober hour. Subject(s): Winter YOUNG WIDOW CONFRONTS THE GHOST OF HER MACHO HUSBAND, WHO DIED OF, by DAVID LEIGHTTY Poem Source First Line: Why did you swim that cold ohio Last Line: Hope you liked swimming the ohio Subject(s): Death; Ohio; Swimming; Winter YOUNG WOMAN, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And softe he cougheth with a semysoun Subject(s): Winter YOUTH. A SONNET SEQUENCE: IN WINTER, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Always before, the clear unbroken snow Last Line: For untracked snow along some city way. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Winter YULE-LOG, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hale the yule-log in! Subject(s): Sports; Winter ZI-YE SONGS OF THE FOUR SEASONS. WINTER: 13, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Where will we tie our true-love-knot? Last Line: And the hard frosts will freeze me to death Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Winter |
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