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Snow,
blessed snow,
comes out of the sky
like bleached flies.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Snow.")
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And yet with neither love nor hate,
Those stars like some snow-white
Minerva's snow-white marble eyes
Without the gift of sight.
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Stars.")
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Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
(Edward Thomas (1878-1917), British poet. Thaw (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.)
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When snow like sheep lay in the fold
(Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932), British poet. In Memory of Jane Fraser (l. 1). . .
New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992 [Geoffrey Hill]. (1994) Houghton Mifflin.)
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Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears,
Roses do blush and hang their heads,
(Henry Noel, British poet, and William Strode, British poet. Beauty Extolled (attributed to Noel and to Strode) (l. 14-15). . .
Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, The. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough, eds. (1934) Oxford University Press.)
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Money is only congealed snow.
(Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. author and humorist. As quoted in The Late Mrs. Dorothy Parker, ch. 25, by Leslie Frewin (1986).
A popular writer who had earned considerable sums of money, Parker spent carelessly and always seemed to be in need.)
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Like an army defeated
The snow hath retreated,
(William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Written in March (l. 11-12). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [William Wordsworth]. John O. Hayden, ed. (1977, repr. 1990) Penguin Books.)
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The frolic architecture of the snow.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "The Snow-Storm," Poems (1847).)
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And before, with banner red,
Through the blizzard snow unseen,
All unharmed by hail of lead,
With a step like snow so light,
Showered in myriad pearls of snow.
Crowned in wreath of roses white,
Christ leads onward as they go.
(Alexander Blok (1880-1921), Russian poet. "The Twelve," sct. 12 (1918), trans. by Gerard Shelley (1942).
Last lines of poem, referring to twelve guards during the October Revolution.)
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Rigidly they
Persisted, linked, through lengths and breadths
Of time. Snow fell, undated.
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "A Arundel Tombn.")
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