Time and Eternity, Poem 11
by Emily Dickinson
from The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Series Two
Some, too fragile for winter winds
Winter in Verse
"This winter air is keen and cold, and keen and cold this winter sun..." Do you feel a chill in the air? This collection brings together the imagery and power of Winter, as depicted in poetry.
Passages
The North Wind
by Traditional
from Nursery Rhymes and Traditional Poems
A poem about the coming of winter.
Le Jardin Des Tuileries
by Oscar Wilde
from Selected American and British Poems
This winter air is keen and cold, and keen and cold this winter sun,
The Visionary
by Emily Brontë
from Poems of Emily Brontë
The speaker waits by her lamp for a visitor.
Woods in Winter
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Selected Works
The poet sees the differences in nature in winter, but still values winter.
Excelsior
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Selected Works
The poem describes a young man passing through a town bearing the banner “Excelsior” (translated from Latin as “ever higher”), ignoring all warnings, climbing higher until inevitably, “lifeless, but beautiful” he lies half-buried in the snow.
Picture-Books in Winter
by Robert Louis Stevenson
from A Child's Garden of Verses: Selected Poems
The world stays lush in books.
Tampa Robins
by Sidney Lanier
from Florida: Essays and Poems
A robin has a meal under an orange-tree.
Orange Buds by Mail from Florida
by Walt Whitman
from Florida: Essays and Poems
The author imagines the many miles his orange buds have traveled to go from the Florida sun to snow covered New Jersey.
Nature, Poem 26
by Emily Dickinson
from The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Series One
'T was latter when the summer went
Nature, Poem 46
by Emily Dickinson
from The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Series Two
It can't be summer, — that got through;
Roses
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
from Lyrics of Love and Laughter
"Oh, wind of the spring–time, oh, free wind of May,"
The Dance
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
from Lyrics of Love and Laughter
"Heel and toe, heel and toe,"
Sonnet 97
by William Shakespeare
from The Sonnets
How like a winter hath my absence been
Winter-Song
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
from Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow
"Oh, who would be sad tho’ the sky be a–graying,"
When Winter Darkening All Around
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
from Miscellaneous Poems
"When winter covering all the ground"
Sonnet 6
by William Shakespeare
from The Sonnets
Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface
Sonnet 5
by William Shakespeare
from The Sonnets
Those hours that with gentle work did frame