Winter Poems

O World! O Life! O Time!
On whose last steps I climb,
Trembling at that where I had stood before;
When will return the glory of your prime?
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Crabbed Age and Youth
Cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasance,
Age is full of care;
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War broke: and now the Winter of the world
With perishing great darkness closes in.
The foul tornado, centred at Berlin,
Is over all the width of Europe whirled,
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Winter is icummen in,
Lhude sing Goddamm.
Raineth drop and staineth slop,
And how the wind doth ramm!
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All winter your brute shoulders strained against collars, padding
and steerhide over the ash hames, to haul
sledges of cordwood for drying through spring and summer,
for the Glenwood stove next winter, and for the simmering range.
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Under the greenwood tree
Who loves to lie with me,
And turn his merry note
Unto the sweet bird's throat,
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Celebrate our anniversary - can't you see
tonight the snowy night of our first winter
comes back again in every road and tree -
that winter night of diamantine splendour.
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Winter uses all the blues there are.
One shade of blue for water, one for ice,
Another blue for shadows over snow.
The clear or cloudy sky uses blue twice-
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Within the circuit of this plodding life
There enter moments of an azure hue,
Untarnished fair as is the violet
Or anemone, when the spring stew them
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The abode of the nightingale is bare,
Flowered frost congeals in the gelid air,
The fox howls from his frozen lair:
Alas, my loved one is gone,
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O Winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire,
What loss is theirs who from thy kingdom turn
Dismayed, and think thy snow a sculptured urn
Of death! Far sooner in midsummer tire
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Winter solitude--
in a world of one color
the sound of wind.
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We two were lovers, the Sea and I;
We plighted our troth ‘neath a summer sky.

And all through the riotous ardent weather
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I

The stars were wild that summer evening
As on the low lake shore stood you and I
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The month of carnival of all the year,
When Nature lets the wild earth go its way,
And spend whole seasons on a single day.
The spring-time holds her white and purple dear;
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My heart is what it was before,
A house where people come and go;
But it is winter with your love,
The sashes are beset with snow.
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All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
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'Oh, dear with best thighs, heart-stealing is this environ with abundantly grown stacks of rice and their cobs, or with sugarcane, and it is reverberated with the screeches of ruddy gees that abide hither and thither... now heightened will be passion, thereby this season will be gladdening for lusty womenfolk, hence listen of this season, called Shishira, the Winter...

'At this time, people enjoy abiding in the medial places of their residences, whose ventilators are blockaded for the passage of chilly air, and at fireplaces, in sunrays, with heavy clothing, and along with mature women of age, for they too will be passionately steamy...
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A little black thing in the snow,
Crying 'weep! weep! ' in notes of woe!
'Where are thy father and mother? Say! '-
'They are both gone up to the church to pray.
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Love is...barbecues...in winter
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Love is...flying kites...in winter
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Love is...winter...jolly snowman
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Love is...winter...throwing snowballs
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Christian Funeral Hymnal for Vivaldi's 'Winter'
an original Christian funerary hymnal inspired by Vivaldi's 'Winter' from 'The Four Seasons.' This hymnal is meant to provide solace and reflection during times of mourning:

Hymn: 'Eternal Rest in Winter's Embrace'
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Love is...eating ice cream...on winter's walk
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Love is...a summer patio...in winter
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cold chill winter days immobile can chill through bones
cold chill winter days task working can be soul satisfying
grey sky sleet shiver winter days can be ice dismal testing
cloudburst heavy showers winter days can be dismal trying
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PRESENCE OF WINTER NIGHT
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War is winter
And winter is so very cold
War is winter
Weather that affects the young
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