WHAT did Winter mutter? @3O ye frozen ponds, Ring, as on the flying skate Rapid couples, maid and mate, Skim in cosy bonds! Bless me, what a scarlet nose Comes with Robin home from school! How his pilot jacket shows Ghosts of snowballs on the wool! Here are drifts beside the door, Flakes that melt on Laura's face, Shameless hurricanes that roar Anger into every place! Here's a splendid pavement-slide, Made by pourings from the jugs; Even babies take a pride, Helping with their china mugs! Now's the hour when chestnuts roast, Now for father's promised ghost! Children, Winter's come anew— Love him, for he worships you! Winter's come!@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON TWO POEMS TO HANS THOMA ON HIS SIXIETH BIRTHDAY: 1. MOONLIGHT NIGHT by RAINER MARIA RILKE THE BARTHOLDI STATUE by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER PSALM 28. AD TE DOMINE CLAMABO by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THE PATIENT WAYS by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE TEMPER by CLARA EXLINE BOCKOVEN SLEEPING OUT: FULL MOON by RUPERT BROOKE |