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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COLD Matches Found: 223 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHILL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can lambkins do Last Line: Found for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Lampkins Subject(s): Cold; Sleep A GOOD QUESTION, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at these disparate shapes Last Line: How can I live like this? Subject(s): Cold AGNOSTIC TO MYSTIC, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why does it matter to you whether heaven or god Last Line: Sometimes, oh, sometimes it seems—! Subject(s): Cold; Earth; Mysticism; Nature; Weather; World AM, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child gets up Last Line: Over the side of the bed Subject(s): Waking; Morning; Cold; Childhood Memories AMORETTI: 32, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The painful smith with force of fervent heat Last Line: And she to stones at length all frosen turne? Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Heat; Cold; Despair AN AUTUMN CAROL, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Oh, our hearts are aglow with contentment Last Line: For there 's heat in the steam-pipes to-day! Subject(s): Autumn; Cold; Heat; Landlords & Tenants; Seasons; Fall AN EASY REMEMDY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An honest tailor, whose baptismal Last Line: "why don't you warm it?" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Cold; Drinks & Drinking; Marriage; Water; Wine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANOTHER LOSS TO STOP FOR, by JILL BIALOSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against such cold and mercurial mornings Last Line: When none of us is spared? Variant Title(s): The Goddess Of Despair Subject(s): Cold; Morning ANOTHER LOSS TO STOP FOR, by JILL BIALOSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against such cold and mercurial mornings Last Line: When none of us is spared? Variant Title(s): The Goddess Of Despai Subject(s): Cold; Morning ARCTIC THAW, by BESMILR BRIGHAM Poem Source First Line: In the first days of the heavy north melt Last Line: In their steady lay cold Subject(s): Arctic; Cold; Ice; Snow 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 AS EVENING ENTERED, by CHONGUM Poem Source First Line: As evening entered our mountain town Last Line: Stretched over the empty mountainside Subject(s): Cold; Evening; Solitude AT THE DEATH OF A MONGOLIAN PEASANT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The trees turned around as if to quarrel with him Last Line: And some simple wretchedness unto bliss. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Mongols And Mongolia; Peasantry; Salvation; Dead, The AT THE STONE AGE TOMBS, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: An afternoon with the ancient dead on a ridge Last Line: In twos and threes, uneasy alone Subject(s): Cemeteries; Cold; Death; Graves; Solitude AUTUMN LEAVES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The autumn leaves are turning fast Last Line: The spirit doth reveal. Subject(s): Autumn; Cold; Leaves; Seasons; Wind; Fall BEAUTIFUL SNOW, by MAJOR SIGOURNEY Poem Text First Line: Beautiful snow! Beautiful snow! Last Line: Pity the homeless exposed to the cold, icy snow. Subject(s): Beauty; Cold; Grief; Happiness; Homeless; Poverty; Snow; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight BIG FAT GARTER SNAKE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For warmth on a cold night Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Cold; Nature; Snakes BITTER COLD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Bitter cold. No one is abroad Last Line: Look at my footprints in the snow Subject(s): Cold BITTER COLD, LIVING IN THE VILLAGE, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the twelfth month of this eigth year Last Line: I ask myself what kind of man am I Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Cold 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 CATCHING A COLD', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whether a cold can be readily caught Last Line: Lo! You will catch it with ease, **while you wait” Subject(s): Common Cold CERTAINLY THE DEER, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only a few places like this left Last Line: Now clearly visible, now disappearing slowly into the swamp Subject(s): Cold; Emotions; Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Travel COLD, by NINA CASSIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold. Necessary cold Last Line: Making it easier for us, if not to live, %at least, to survive Subject(s): Cold COLD, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold and the colors of cold: mineral, shell Last Line: I huddle, hoard, hold out, hold on, hold on Subject(s): Cold COLD, by GARY H. HOLTHAUS Poem Source First Line: Dear wife, %this winter seems especially hard Last Line: & can still send you this %from your loving husband. %yrs. Faithfully, %arnold Subject(s): Cold COLD, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The boy's hands are blue with cold Last Line: The forecast is not good. Subject(s): Cold; Poverty; Youth COLD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Came suddenly & without warning Last Line: The sky clouded over & snow came %warming us like a blessed blanket Subject(s): Cold COLD, by HERBERT MORRIS Poem Source First Line: The stones tonight withdraw into themselves Subject(s): Cold COLD, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ten below and stell-gray Last Line: Itself, across wassergass road %and into the mountain that has %no name Subject(s): Cold COLD, by THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: Cold,' cried the wind on the hill Alternate Author Name(s): Roberts, T. G. Subject(s): Cold COLD, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: You've swallowed a wool sock, and you've got Last Line: God bless you! My goodness. God bless you! Subject(s): Cold; Self-pity; Selfishness; Sickness COLD, by BIL ZELENY Poem Source First Line: They come in to get warm Subject(s): Cold COLD AND QUIET, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold, my dear, -- cold and quiet Last Line: Love, now the children slumber, I come out to thee. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies; Love; Silence; Dead, The COLD AUGUST, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun had shrunk to a dime Last Line: Them disappear in southward course. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): August; Birds; Cold; Hawks; Summer COLD BEFORE DAWN', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As if in pain Subject(s): Birds; Cold; Dawn; Night; Peacocks; Sunrise; Bedtime COLD BEFORE DAWN', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The peacocks cry to each other, %as if in pain Subject(s): Birds; Cold; Dawn; Night; Peacocks COLD DAY IN MAY, by KIMBALL MACKAY-BROOK Poem Source First Line: It's one of those spring days winter Last Line: And when I hung up, the last %crow lifted off, clean as a sun Subject(s): Cold; Houses; May (month) COLD FOOD FESTIVAL DAY, by YUN PIAO Poem Source First Line: The day of cold food, sadly looking Last Line: Were mourners here, last year Subject(s): Cold; Death; Graves; Zen Buddhism COLD HANDS WARM HEART, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every winter friday Last Line: As the ice of ladyhood gloves my fingers. Subject(s): Cold; Dancing & Dancers COLD MORNING, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through an accidental crack in the curtain Subject(s): Cold COLD POEM, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold now. / close to the edge. Almost Subject(s): Cold COMBUSTION, by PAUL KARAN Poem Source First Line: God it's cold Last Line: Do you want to go outside %and look Subject(s): Automobiles; Cold; Fire COMING SOON, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I placed one toe Last Line: It said it did not need me. Subject(s): Cold; December; Restaurants; Time; Waiters & Waitresses; Cafes; Diners COUPLE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: The man went out to look Last Line: In the days of anarchy %and old parents Subject(s): Anarchism And Anarchists; Cold; Death DA LEETLA BOY, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Da spreeng ees com'; but oh, da joy Last Line: He no could wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Cold; Spring DEATH, by DOROTHY DREISBACH Poem Text First Line: Death took the orange out of the sunshine Last Line: The scar of the wound will always be there. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DEATH IN THE ARCTIC, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took the clock down from the shelf Last Line: "looking to god and love -- and love -- " Subject(s): Antarctica; Cold DEATH OF THE POLAR EXPLORERS, by GABRIEL GBADAMOSI Poem Source First Line: They made their grim, sad faces and went out Last Line: On finding death incomprehensible Subject(s): Cold; Explorers DECEMBER, by ELIZABETH V. AUVACHE Poem Text First Line: December days are dark and gray Last Line: Round the bright and cheery blaze. Subject(s): Christmas; Cold; December; Nativity, The 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 LAKE, by EDYTHE BARRETT GOELTZ Poem Text First Line: Each wave whispered of a departed summer Last Line: And meet it as one. Subject(s): Cold; December; Farewell; Solitude; Parting; Loneliness DECEMBER LOVE, by RANDY BLASING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When, as you will, you leave me in the dust Last Line: Give me the slip, black ice under my feet Subject(s): Automobiles; Cold; Frost; Hearts; Love DEITIES AND BEASTS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tall atlas, jupiter, hercules, thor Last Line: Is never mentioned in the press at all Subject(s): Cold War; Missiles; Guided Missiles; Ballistic Missiles DEITIES AND BEASTS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tall atlas, jupiter, hercules, thor Last Line: Is never mentioned in the press at all Subject(s): Cold War; Missiles 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 DESERTED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Cold! So cold! And the night looks down Last Line: And the spotless robe is the wing of death Subject(s): Cold;grief; Sorrow;sadness ECCE VACCUO, by A. F. EHRENBURG Poem Text First Line: Behold a madman bound for hell Last Line: The secret ages left untold. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Dead, The ELEGIES FROM THE NORTH 2, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The sodden moss sinks underfoot when we cross half-frozen bays and walk Last Line: Separate, I can barely swallow, tell me the lyrics of your song. I want to sing %with you Subject(s): Cold; Exiles; Snow ELEGY, by HENRIQUETA LISBOA Poem Source First Line: At first the dead Last Line: Nosegay of gillyflowers Subject(s): Cold; Death; Graves ESCAPE FROM EAST BERLIN, by PETER SEARS Poem Source First Line: The berlin wall went through our heads Subject(s): Berlin Wall; Cold War 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 EX LIBRIS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full 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 FALIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the frost-grown city of falias lit by the falling stars Last Line: For the old impossible haven 'mid the old auroral fires? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Cold; Desire; Grace; Ravens; Stars FALL, by RUTH GLASCOTT Poem Text First Line: Fall comes / with the wind Last Line: With silver frost. Subject(s): Autumn; Cold; Seasons; Fall 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 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 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 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 FOR A DISSOLVING MUSIC, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall be seen? Last Line: Not hope of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Emptiness; Old Age; Solitude FOR THE BED AT KELMSCOTT, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind's on the wold Last Line: Right good is rest. Variant Title(s): Inscription For An Old Bed;lines For A Bed Ay Kelmscott Manor Subject(s): Beds; Cold FOUND FROZEN, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She died, as many travellers have died Last Line: But I, who loved her first, and last, and best, -- I knew. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Cold; Death; Love; Tears; Dead, The FOUR MATRICES: 3. HOME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cores. Knots. A vortex around which nothing swirls Last Line: Cold and stillness, horses and roots, unmoving brain. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cold; Despair FREEZING POINT OF THE UNIVERSE, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: I used to speak in anagrams during sex no wonder Last Line: Is where it all begins, the clean slate. Walk out now, you're freezing Subject(s): Cold; Universe FREEZING RAIN, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold snare taps on the skylight Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Cold; Rain FRIGID, by SUSAN HAHN Poem Source First Line: It is the season of frozen Last Line: With me here and you there Variant Title(s): Frigid 199 Subject(s): Cold 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 TO-NIGHT, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apple-green west and an orange bar Last Line: Half sad, half proud, my arms I fill. Subject(s): Cold; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Life FROZEN SEA, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We walked on it, in the very flesh Last Line: Was north, the sides of the north, everywhere Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Cold; Old Age; Silence; Solitude FUROR BELLICUS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cobray m-11 and the tec-9 along with their relatives and clones Subject(s): Cold War; Crime & Criminals; Military; Prisons & Prisoners FUROR BELLICUS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cobray m-11 and the tec-9 along with their relatives and clones Last Line: Transmute furor bellicus to %mere flame or tear Subject(s): Cold War; Crime And Criminals; Military; Prisons And Prisoners 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 GHAZALS: 11, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brain opens the hand which touches that spot, clinically Last Line: Freeze in arid cold watch the reindeer watch the northern lights. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cold; Hunting; Imaginary Conversations; Hunters GOD'S WEATHER: OCTOBER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The cold late rain drips from the low clouds close palling Last Line: The haze on the home hill and weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Cold; Months; Summer; Weather 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 HAIKU, by BOB BOLDMAN Poem Source First Line: January first Last Line: The fingers of the prostitute cold Subject(s): Cold 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 HARSH CLIMATE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brain itself in its skull Subject(s): Mind, The; Cold I SEE YOU, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I see you, stranger, reaching out to touch Last Line: Where cold winds blow Subject(s): Cold; Strangers; Wind I SING WITH THE SHOOTS OF COLD...', by PIERRE VOELIN Poem Source Last Line: Dazzled memory when needles %rain down Subject(s): Cold ICE CANNOT CRY, by FLORENCE STEINBERG Poem Text First Line: Tears drop / splashing the heart Last Line: Melt. Subject(s): Cold; Eyes; Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness 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 ICEBERG, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not its air but our own awe Last Line: Before they can again grow apple trees Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Ice; Sailors And Sailing 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 ICICLES, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This fragile witchery of frost Last Line: That leads unto the central sun. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Cold; Frost; God; Ice; Nature - Religious Aspects 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 Full 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 IT HAS SNOWED REPEATEDLY AND WE CAN COUNT ON A GOOD CROP ..., by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bitter cold, but don't complain when heaven sends down snow Last Line: Under the trees, beating time on the ground, singing of the season of %peace Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): Cold IT'S COLD INSIDE, by FRIEDERIKE ROTH Poem Source First Line: Nothing works, no matter how you try Last Line: When the crickets begin to wake, %how beautifully they sing Subject(s): Cold; Dreams JUDGMENT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they removed the bandages Last Line: On them -- for what they couldn't say -- they wept. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Blindness; Cold; Eyes; Judgments; Solitude; Visually Handicapped; Loneliness JULIAN OF NORWICH SEES THE CROSS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: The sweet face appeared before me Last Line: Turned cold as a shuddering boulder Subject(s): Cold; Death LAKESIDE GEESE, by STEPHEN MITCHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Desoltaion. The forest's bones Subject(s): Cold; Geese; Paintings & Painters LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: THE TRAVELER, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It is a winter evening Last Line: And grasps an iron hatchet Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Cold; Fields; Spain; Travel LAST, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The unsigned architecture of loneliness Subject(s): Cold War; History; Relationships; Sons; Historians LAST RITES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush Last Line: Raise him a tombstone of snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 10 Subject(s): Cold; Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials LETTERS TO YESENIN: 5, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lustra. Officially the cold comes from manitoba Last Line: With endless thirst. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cold; Drinks & Drinking; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Wine; Soviet Union; Russians LITTLE SNOWSCAPE, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consciousness ends, says the snow Subject(s): Cold 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 MALEDICTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man's not a singing animal Last Line: Rivet his stone with worms. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cold; Curses; Pain; Self-pity; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs 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 MEISTER ECKHART, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day the snow festered Last Line: And he meant it. Subject(s): Cold; Eckehart, Johannes (meister) (1260-1327); God; Inquisition; Mysticism; Eckhart, Meister MINOR MISHAP, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Think of my death Last Line: At a table set, whose meats he cannot reach. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Dead, The MOODS, by AMICUS [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: O pensive passenger! Do not deny Last Line: This narrow spot the vernal maiden's doom Alternate Author Name(s): Amicus Subject(s): Cold;death;graves;grief; "dead, The;tombs;tombstones;sorrow;sadness; MOON, COLORADO, SNOW, by SUSAN TICHY Poem Source First Line: Horn creek lake, 10 p.M. Last Line: Rock from which the walls of prison are made Subject(s): Cold; Colorado (state); Night; Snow MOONLIGHT, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Was it because it was moonlight Last Line: That always first freezes? Subject(s): Cold; Moon MORNING AFTER, by DENNIS COOLEY Poem Source Last Line: So loud it hurts Subject(s): Cold; Marriage; Skating And Skaters; Snow; Sports; Winter MOTETS: 12, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I run my hand across your forehead Last Line: Don't know that you are here Subject(s): Clouds; Cold; Cyclones MOTETS: 18, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not cut away, scissors, that face Subject(s): Cold MOTTO, FR. ARIOSTO, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to the land where the clouds love to rest Last Line: And the lake her lone bosom expands to the sky. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Farewell; Rest; Sky; Dead, The; Parting NARROW FLAME, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Cold NINETY-NINE IN THE SHADE, by ROSSITER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! Last Line: And deepens the chill of its dark-running wave. Subject(s): Cold; Heat; Weather 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 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 CAPE, by LOUIS L'AMOUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hollow hand of hills that clutches dawn Last Line: To fierceness and to fury here ... And cold. Subject(s): Cold 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 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 COLD. HEY, GRASSHOPPER!, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Weighed nothing! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cold; Grasshoppers; Nature; November OCTOBER, by ALICE SUTTON MCGEORGE Poem Text First Line: The twilight of the year comes checkered ... Last Line: Like blue of steel when tempered by the fire. Subject(s): Autumn; Cold; Seasons; Fall OCTOBER - A SKETCH, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In spring, in summer, in autumnal wane Last Line: Quiet and contemplation mantle all! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Autumn; Cold; Leaves; October; Seasons; Fall 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 THE UNUSUAL COLD AND RAINIE WEATHER IN ... SUMMER,1648, by ROBERT HEATH Poem Source First Line: Why puts our grandame nature on Subject(s): Cold OVER THE WALL: BERLIN, MAY 1975, by CHARLES HUBERT SISSON Poem Source First Line: He will go over and tell the king Last Line: Yet the afternoon sun falls upon faces %less tame than tigers Subject(s): Berlin Wall; Cold War; Travel OWL, by CRAIG HANCOCK Poem Source First Line: Twenty below again Subject(s): Birds; Cold; Owls PIEN RIVER FREEZING OVER, by TU MU Poem Source First Line: For a hundred miles Last Line: All day all night %nobody noticing Subject(s): Cold; Rivers PLATONICA, by JEANNETTE FOSTER Poem Text First Line: Dear, dearest, / why do the arms of me yearn? Last Line: Could I be distant and cold? Variant Title(s): Platonics Subject(s): Absence; Cold; Death; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The POOR NORTH, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is cold, the snow is deep Subject(s): Cold; Family Life; Relatives PRAGUE SPRING, by TONY HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A silent scream? The madigral's top note Last Line: The last snow of this year's late snow thaw %dribbles as spring saliva down his jaw Subject(s): Cold War; Prague, Czech Republic; Travel PRAGUE, JANUARY 1964, by INGEBORG BACHMANN Poem Source First Line: Since that night Subject(s): Cold War; Prague, Czech Republic PRAYER FOR FISH, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty below. It is too cold Last Line: All sleeping things wake, %keeping their proper seasons Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Cold; Fishing And Fishermen; Poetry And Poets PROMENADES AND INTERIORS, SELECTION, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Text First Line: I am writing near the lamp. It's fine weather. Pleasant stillness Last Line: Mother, blessèd among all women may you be! Subject(s): Cold; Memory; October; Weather; Writing & Writers PRUDHOE BAY, by JOAN CUSACK HANDLER Poem Source First Line: A few springs of arctic cotton, the flat grey back of tundra, two ... Last Line: L -- I -- n -- g %we have no right to be here Subject(s): Arctic; Cold; Nature RETURN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun's warm against the slats of the granary Last Line: And want something better. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cold; Longing; Nature; Spring SAME COLD, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In minnesota the serious cold arrived Last Line: Just two men, he said, in the same cold Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Cold; Minnesota SEALED WORD, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Not by the spring Last Line: Against the too light perishing of leaves. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Silence; Dead, The SESTINA, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where I came by torchlight there is dawn-song Last Line: Till I had made body and season from a song Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Night; Sleep SILENCE, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night on her couch of the mountains Last Line: For the love of a child that is dead. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Cold; Death; Heaven; Rest; Wales; Dead, The; Paradise; Welshmen; Welshwomen SIMONE, by REMY DE GOURMONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Simone, white as your neck is the snow I see Last Line: Your brow is sad beneath your auburn hair. Subject(s): Cold; Grief; Snow; White (color); Sorrow; Sadness SINERA CEMETERY: 15, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source First Line: The bells' cold, slow ringing Last Line: All the afternoon's pathways Subject(s): Cold; Corpses; Death SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 47, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: January cold desolate Last Line: In bleak december. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Months Subject(s): Christmas; Cold; Nativity, The SISTER WATER: THE SNOW, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: I am perpetual change; no one form ever lasts in me Last Line: And I cried, 'let us praise god, sister snow!' Subject(s): Cold; God; Praise; Religion; Snow 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 HATH CHARMS, by H. H. (187?-) Poem Text First Line: So cold was the night Last Line: And her cheeks were cold, too. Subject(s): Cold SMALL PARK IN EAST GERMANY: 1969, by GERDA MAYER Poem Source First Line: Crumbling and weathered, their features half-erased Subject(s): Cold War; Germany; Travel 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 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 NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once with my scarf knotted over my mouth Last Line: The son! Before the weather changes. Subject(s): Cold; Fathers & Sons; Relationships; Snow; Weather SNOW HOPES, by CHARLES B. NOBLE Poem Text First Line: One day ago the snow was laid Last Line: And cares and worries banish. Subject(s): Cold; Hope; Snow; Optimism SNOW ON HER LIPS, by JAIME KLEIMAN Poem Source First Line: The only eyes who meet mine on the street belong to Last Line: Fire in her gloveless hands Subject(s): Cold; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of SNOW PATTERN, by EMILY R. DENTON Poem Text First Line: Out of the dream: wind in the snow all day Last Line: That was so proud. Subject(s): Cold 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 SOCKS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She thinks she's silly, making love in them Last Line: Around the globe, forlorn as single socks %until they make a pair Subject(s): Cold; Feet; Hosiery 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 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: 111, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now all the twigs and grasses Last Line: And my sweetheart, yvonne. Subject(s): Cold; Love SPRING FROST, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You can feel it under your feet, this frost that silvers / the grass Last Line: And the silvered beauty of frost on bloom like foam of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Cold; Frost 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 SUNCONSCIOUS AWAKENING, by JOHN HARSEN RHOADES Poem Text First Line: Some fancies bloom at three a.M. Last Line: And put those blooms away. Subject(s): Cold; Night; Bedtime THE ARTIC VISITATION, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some air-born genius, with malignant mouth Last Line: Bound for a land where sunlight cannot fade? Subject(s): Cold 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 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 COLD NIGHT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is cold. The white moon Last Line: Perfect after many babiers. / oya! Subject(s): Cold THE CREMATION OF SAM MCGEE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There are strange things done in the midnight sun Last Line: I cremated sam mcgee. Subject(s): Cold; Yukon Territory THE DEAD PUSSY CAT [OR KITTEN], by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: You's as stiff an' as cold as a stone Last Line: And forget all de kicks of de town Subject(s): Animal Rights;animals;cats;cold;death;grief; "animal Abuse;vivisection;dead, The;sorrow;sadness; THE DEATH OF DAWN, by GERTRUDE RATHBUN Poem Text First Line: Morning light on a quivering leaf Last Line: The cold, gray shadow, hate. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Shadows; Silence; Snow; Dead, The 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 HAMMER, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did a foot of snow matter when Subject(s): Cold THE HEART'S WINTER, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! We part as ne'er before Last Line: Its joyous, happy hours! Subject(s): Cold; Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Parting; Loneliness 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 LONELY DEATH, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cold I will rise, I will bathe Last Line: And draw the sheet under my chin. Subject(s): Cold; Dawn; Death; Solitude; Sunrise; Dead, The; Loneliness THE MIND SPEAKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Poor body, sitting there so calm Last Line: To act beyond its power. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Graves; Mind, The; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones 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 POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 301, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold mountain is so cold Last Line: An old man survives Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Cold; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 6, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountains are so cold Last Line: Looks in vain for the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Cold; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE RUSSIAN ARMY GOES INTO BAKU, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the ethnic riots start, and the civilized west Last Line: With an unhappy man Subject(s): Russia – Army; War; Freedom; Cold War THE SNOW, by REMY DE GOURMONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Simone, white as thy throat the snow I see Last Line: My snow, simone, and all my love art thou. Subject(s): Cold; Kisses; Love; Snow 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 UNLOOSENING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter was weary. All his snows were / failing Last Line: Above their eyes—a pale and shaking crown. Subject(s): Cold; Snow; Winter THE WIDOW; SAPPHICS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold was the night wind, drifting fast the snow fell Last Line: God had released her. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Cold; Death; God; Salvation; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The 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 THEY WON'T FROWN ALWAYS, SOME SWEET DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That filled the lisping full Subject(s): Cold THIRD STREET, NOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: A sign of my own past's big wreck Last Line: Then raise a cigarette butt %to her shadowy lips Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Cold; Death; Nome, Alaska THOMAS MERTON AND THE WINTER MARSH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went out of the house to smoke. A thousand Last Line: And mother of christ. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Cold; Insects; Merton, Thomas (1915-1968); Spiders; Bugs 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 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 WELSH AIR, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why that neck of marble whiteness Last Line: Ere that thou art old! Subject(s): Beauty; Cold; Evil TO AN OLD FRIEND, by JEFFREY HARRISON Poem Source First Line: The alumni office Last Line: That room glow. %I wanted %to thaw you out Subject(s): Cold TOO COLD IS THIS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But just an asterisk Subject(s): Cold TOUCHED, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold december nights I'd go Last Line: Each healing we begin. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Cold; Death; Healing; Mythology - Classical; Sickness; Touch (sense); Women's Rights; Dead, The; Cures; Illness; Feminism TWAS WARM - AT FIRST - LIKE US, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But dropped like adamant Variant Title(s): Poem: 519; Poem: 61 Subject(s): Cold TWENTY BELOW, by ROBERT ARTHUR DOUGLAS FORD Poem Source First Line: The woman watches her husband rubbing his nose Last Line: And thaws before the flames Subject(s): Cold 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 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, SELS, by DANE ZAJC Poem Source First Line: The ice of her body melts %under his hands Last Line: And the cold water falling across the dam Subject(s): Cold; Corpses; Death; Graves; Silence WAKING AT 3 A.M., by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time humans feel closest to the grave Last Line: Try to touch him. I dare you. %try to kiss her Subject(s): Cold; Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Sleep WE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ought to drop the bomb at once before Subject(s): Cold War; United States; Social Classes; Social Commentaries; America; Caste 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 SEE, WHEN AUTUMN COMES, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When autumn comes, we see on the telegraph wires Last Line: Tries, pauses, and, ere leaving, turns once more. Subject(s): Autumn; Cold; Seasons; Fall WHEN LOVE GROWS COLD, by LUMAN R. BOWDISH Poem Text First Line: When a twinkling star slowly pales Last Line: And sad be his fate, if his love grows cold. Subject(s): Cold WHITE SHROUDS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full 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 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 WIND CHILL, by MARK VINZ Poem Source First Line: The voice on the radio is urgent. When you go outside, it says, exposed Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Cold; Radio; Weather; Wind 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 ALEKSEI KRUCHENYKH Poem Source First Line: Fzorz... %zunn... %itseeen... %winter! Last Line: All the dogs %croaked! Subject(s): Cold; Seasons; Snow; 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 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 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 STOLSICE, by Poem Full 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 WRECK OF THE SCHOONER 'SAMUEL CRAWFORD.', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of november Last Line: And to take the last look of their schooner in a blaze. Subject(s): Cold; Disasters; Hunger; Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Snow; Survival; Wind |
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