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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CLINGING SNOW, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world of trees is twinned with a world of snow
Last Line: That all their least concerns are fair and good.
Subject(s): Snow


A CRYSTAL FOREST, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The air is blue and keen and cold
Last Line: Each frozen fern with crystal ends.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Forests; Snow; Woods


A DREAM ON THE FIRST NIGHT OF SNOW, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I woke from a first-day-of-snow dream
Subject(s): Snow


A MARCH SNOW, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the old snow be covered with the new
Last Line: Even as the new snow covers up the old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Earth; Life; March (month); Snow; World


A MYSTERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should a fir-tree stark against the sky
Last Line: A mystery.
Subject(s): Happiness; Pain; Rain; Snow; Tears; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery


A NIGHT, NEAR BERKELEY SPRINGS, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The light of the future eternal' sometimes breaks on a life
Last Line: A fine dust, astonished to be rising from a cloud.
Subject(s): Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); Snow; Soldiers


A PATCH OF OLD SNOW, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a patch of old snow in a corner
Last Line: If I ever read it.
Subject(s): Snow


A PHYSICAL MOON BEYOND PATERSON, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: William carlos williams had finished
Last Line: The holiest dish to whiteness passing over...
Subject(s): Birth; Happiness; New Jersey; Rebirth; Snow; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Child Birth; Midwifery; Joy; Delight


A SECOND TIME, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the year I cut logs for the new house and roads, roads like veins
Last Line: When they starved out and moved on, they burned their houses down to get the nails back
Subject(s): Mountains; Snow; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A SNOW MOUNTAIN, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can I make white enough my thought for thee
Last Line: Our only greatness is that we aspire.
Subject(s): Life; Mountains; Snow; White (color); Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A SNOW-SONG, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Does the snow fall at sea?
Last Line: Fadeth the snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Snow


A SNOW-STORM; SCENE IN A VERMONT WINTER, by CHARLES GAMAGE EASTMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a fearful night in the winter time
Last Line: Where she lay when she floundered down.
Subject(s): Nature; Snow; Vermont


A SNOWSTORM, by GEORGIA DAY SHERWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The snow is gently falling / the flakes are ...
Last Line: That nature can endow.
Subject(s): Snow White


A TINKLE OF BELLS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The light of the moon on the white
Last Line: Sheer into the judgment day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bells; Judgment Day; Moon; Snow; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


A VERY EXCEPTIONAL ESKIMO, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I tell you a few of the things I know
Last Line: If he didn't, the cold might freeze his dreams!
Subject(s): Arctic; Eskimos; Native Americans; Snow; Winter; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A WALK THROUGH THE SNOW, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked from our wild north country once
Last Line: The warm, red cheeks inside!
Subject(s): Snow


A YEAR'S CAROLS: JANUARY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, january, that bearest here
Last Line: Thy feet enkindle stars of snow.
Subject(s): January; Seasons; Snow


ABER STATIONS: STATIO SEXTA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ha! Snow
Last Line: But nowhere can I see the little lamb
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Snow


ADIOCITO, MOTHER SNOW, by COLETTE INEZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Vamos. Enough
Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Snow; Latinos


AFTER AKIKO-- YORU NO CHO NI, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In your frost white kimono
Last Line: Your wind blown hair and you cry, %'the first snow!'
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Snow


AFTERFLAKES, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the thick of a teeming snowfall
Last Line: With the sun shining through
Subject(s): Snow


AFTERFLAKES, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the thick of a teeming snowfall
Last Line: Were but frost knots on an airy gauze, %with the sun shining through
Subject(s): Snow


ALL WE HAVE TO GO BY, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As if I had dreamed the snow
Subject(s): Snow


ALREADY A LONG WAY OFF THEY KNEW IT WAS HIM, by EVA STROM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The empty plate one had tried to induce him with
Subject(s): Hunger; Snow; Winter


AMERICAN MYSTIC, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of some toasty leaf-burrow she wallows into the cold
Last Line: Bare-toothed, edgy.
Subject(s): Snow; Suburbs; Wolves


AN ADIRONDACK WINTER SONG, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within our adirondack home
Last Line: With light the soul doth know.
Subject(s): Peace; Seasons; Snow; Weather; Winter


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


AT 7, by W. B. THOMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The boy making an angel
Last Line: The snow smears across the grass. %the redbird sings tyoo! Tyoo!
Subject(s): Birds; Boys; Snow


AT THE MELTING OF THE SNOW, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a sunny southern land
Last Line: At the melting of the snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Snow; Spring


ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 16, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When thou see'st yon mountain summits
Last Line: Black and long, was onward moving.
Subject(s): Snow


BALLADE OF DEAD LADIES, by FRANCOIS VILLON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, tell me now in what strange air
Last Line: "nay, but where is the last year's snow?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De
Variant Title(s): Ballade Of The Ladies Of Time Pas
Subject(s): Death; Snow; Women; Dead, The


BEATEN TRACKS, by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: That night while we were snug abed it snowed --
Last Line: Puts our feet back in the old beaten tracks.
Subject(s): Night; Snow; Bedtime


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


BEAUTIFUL SNOW, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful snow, so pure and white
Last Line: And sweet, beautiful faith and love.
Subject(s): Snow


BEAUTIFUL SNOW, by JOHN WHITAKER WATSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! The snow, the beautiful snow
Last Line: With a bed and a shroud of the beautiful snow!
Subject(s): Adversity; Snow


BEAUTY SHIELDS, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The snow has fallen softly through the night
Last Line: Be suffered and ignored by wise humanity.
Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Snow


BELATED WINTER, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When winter is done, and its journey is
Last Line: "since winter won't learn to behave."
Subject(s): Snow; Winter


BEND AS THE BOW BENDS, AND LET FLY THE SHAFT, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Thus, and thus only, will our tempest come %by continents of snow to find a home
Subject(s): Snow


BLIZZARD, by BERTHA LAVINA GATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Frozen brittle, barren boughs
Last Line: Shrink beneath the icy-fingered storm.
Subject(s): Snow


BLIZZARD, by WINIFRED K. MARICLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A blizzard shakes and rattles the doors
Last Line: Heard on the wind outside the room.
Subject(s): Snow


BLIZZARD, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow / has forgotten
Subject(s): Snow


BLIZZARD, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow: / years of anger following
Last Line: Upon the world.
Subject(s): Snow


BLOSSOM OF SNOW, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing a song of blossom
Last Line: "with little marjory brown."
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Gardens & Gardening; Snow


BOY TRAVELLER IN SNOW, by KATHLEEN NICASTRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A long path under the rose sky
Last Line: The sifting snows of reason
Subject(s): Boys; Snow; Travel; Winter


BRIGHT SUN AFTER HEAVY SNOW, by JANE KENYON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A ledge of ice slides from the eaves
Last Line: It, too, rises and falls
Subject(s): Snow; Neighbors


BRIGHTER, by SUSAN HUTTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking into an empty house
Last Line: The snowfall brightens everything, %regardless
Subject(s): Emptiness; Light; Snow


BRILLIANT GRIEF, SILENT SNOW, by TERUKO ANDERSON-JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: You mentioned how grief
Last Line: Light %enough to fall %on unborn buds
Subject(s): Grief; Snow


CACHE LA POUDRE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The whole world / (which you said I was
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Mountains; Snow; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CARDINAL, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That great tree covered with snow
Last Line: In a cloud of snow he pushed aside.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Cardinals (birds); Snow; Winter


CAROL, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is christmas without %snow? We need it
Last Line: Scarecrow to wear its heart %on, bold as a robin
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Christmas; Snow


CATCHING ON [OR, FOR A NEW WIFE], by DAVID KELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just beyond the porch, snow
Last Line: There's enough out there left, %and there is, to outlast regret
Variant Title(s): Spring Sno
Subject(s): Snow


CHANGELING, by IRENE HALDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's nice to see it snow,' she said
Last Line: "unparalleled security."
Subject(s): Comfort; Rest; Snow; Winter


CHICAGO: 1966, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dimly through frenetic snow,
Last Line: Stoic streetlamps stiffly glow.
Subject(s): Chicago; Snow


CHILDISH JOYS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I went forth, on my ten toes, a snowball
Last Line: "grist of pain."" and as I feebly tottered by, a snowball hit me in the eye."
Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Snow; Winter; Childhood; Joy; Delight


CHRISTMAS, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The rills that winter-bound have been
Last Line: Is smiling on the earth.
Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Happiness; Holidays; Snow; Winter; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight


CINEMA VERITE: LECTURE ON SNOW, by TOM ANDREWS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Winter snowstorm
Last Line: Like a gas pump fallen over ... No: like an old man covered %with snow...
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Snow


CITY AFTER SNOWFALL, by JOSEPH M. DITTA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some annoyances are trivial %and best forgot to smoothen your day
Last Line: But the figure doesn't assuage %a mild vexation turned to rage
Subject(s): Cities; Snow; Winter


CLOSING CEREMONIES FOR THE BICENTENNIAL (AFTER VIETNAM), by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a long fall, that particular
Last Line: Outside of our reach, unwinding.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Death; Leaves; Snow; Winter; Dead, The


COLD WATERCOLOR, by WYATT PRUNTY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We saw the birds jockeying for the feeder
Subject(s): Snow; Landscape


COLERIDGE CROSSING THE PLAIN OF JARS, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gypsies carry sacks of walnuts out of groves
Last Line: Was in her eyes like a widow's soul.
Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Gypsies; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Severn, Joseph (1793-1879); Snow; Gipsies; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


COMFORT, by RUTH FITCH BARTLETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I cannot bring you comfort - ask me not
Last Line: My heart will not grow dingy on your sleeve?
Subject(s): Comfort; Love; Snow


COMPENSATIONS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's goin' to be a chris'mas-tree next door!
Last Line: Them upstarts know!
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Ice; Play; Snow; Winter; Childhood; Nativity, The


CONTRA MORTEM: THE COMING OF SNOW, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the denuded aisles a shadow walks
Last Line: The rubble graces brightening in the snow
Subject(s): Snow


CUCUMBER, by NAZIM HIKMET    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow is knee-deep in the courtyard
Last Line: It hasn't let up all morning
Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet
Subject(s): Cucumbers; Snow


CUPS OF THE TULIPS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Tip forward, spilling their snow
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Snow; Tulips


DAPHNE WALKS IN THE SNOW, by TROY GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her feet, skimming over the frozen moonlight
Last Line: Upon the moon-encrusted snow.
Subject(s): Snow


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 IN ARNOLD WOOD, by MERRILL MOORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now arnold wood lies white with snow
Last Line: Out all the things to say.
Subject(s): Snow; Winter


DECEMBER NEWS, by JOHN+(1) CLARKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is late
Last Line: And it is snow, first snow, %tapping its small canes
Subject(s): December; Snow; Winter


DECEMBER SNOW, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The falling snow a stainless veil doth cast
Last Line: To beauty passing all that life has known.
Subject(s): Death; December; Memory; Snow; Dead, The


DECEMBER SNOW, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the mystic scroll
Last Line: The spring appear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Snow


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


DR. EGG: 8 THE POEM, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stand by the magazine rack
Last Line: I press it under my shirt %like a bandage
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Snow


DREAM DURING FIRST SNOW STORM, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: On this winter night a dream of susan
Last Line: To a cold wind in the power lines
Subject(s): Dreams; Snow; Winter


DUST OF SNOW, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The way a crow
Last Line: Of a day I had rued.
Variant Title(s): A Favour;snow Dust
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Hope; Snow; Optimism


EARLY SNOW, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: He remembers this:
Last Line: Or to %cover them
Subject(s): Schools; Snow; Teaching And Teachers


EARLY SNOW, by JOSEPH EDWARD POWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside, the slanting snows, like driven souls
Last Line: This country's roads are filling up with snow
Subject(s): Nature; Snow


ELEGIAC SONNET: 78. SNOWDROPS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wan heralds of the sun and summer gale!
Last Line: For fixt regret, and hopeless grief are mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Snow


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


END OF MARCH, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: What does the white world know
Last Line: The world begins all over again!
Subject(s): March (month); Snow; Winter


EPITAPH ON ONE DROWNED IN THE SNOW, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd
Last Line: My last shall give me back to life agen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Drowning; Epitaphs; Snow


ETCHING, by LOUISE C. FALBUSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: A gentle snow is trimming my garden
Last Line: Like seared leaves.
Subject(s): Snow


EVERYTHING IN ORDER, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll never get to where I'm going
Last Line: My arms heavy with the weight of the dead
Subject(s): Snow


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


FALLING LEAVES AND EARLY SNOW, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the years to come they will say
Last Line: The moon has a sheen like a glacier
Subject(s): Leaves; Nature; Snow


FALLING LEAVES AND EARLY SNOW, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the years to come they will say
Last Line: The moon has a sheen a glacier
Subject(s): Leaves; Nature; Snow


FALLING SNOW: A SONG, by LU ZHAO-LIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At autumn's end nomad horsemen break through
Last Line: And the son of heaven does not know their names
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Snow


FEATHERY SNOW, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Full Text                    
First Line: Feathery snow, floating all day
Last Line: O where did he hide him, feathery snow?
Subject(s): Snow


FEBRUARY, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The park hangs on to what keeps growing
Last Line: To the end feel like %becoming?
Subject(s): Arabs; February; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Snow; Winter


FEBRUARY GROUND, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three feet of snow in twenty-four hours
Subject(s): Snow


FINALLY IN FEBRUARY; A LATE-WINTER DREAM, by ERIC GARDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Finally in february
Last Line: An hour after I walk out for the mail, %my footprints are gone
Subject(s): Snow


FIRE AND SNOW, by MARK TURBYFILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: No, not as a draped majestic figure
Last Line: Here in the april of my longing.
Subject(s): Snow


FIRST SNOW, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the red chimney-pots the pigeons cower
Last Line: Even his enemies sing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Snow; English


FIRST SNOW, by SHARON CHMIELARZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mom sits by the living room window
Last Line: Firmly on the door %without once using a fist
Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Parents; Snow


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


FIRST SNOW, by OTTO FREUND    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hiss of speeding motors in the street
Last Line: Within the golden circle of the fire.
Subject(s): Snow


FIRST SNOW, by TED KOOSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old black dog comes in one evening
Subject(s): Snow; Dogs; Country Life


FIRST SNOW, by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From a grey background, silverly
Last Line: And, oh, most exquisite form, I think of you.
Subject(s): Snow


FIRST SNOW, by MARTHA OSTENSO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stand still in this strange glimmering
Last Line: I alone, and alone you.
Subject(s): Snow


FIRST SNOW, KERHONKSON, by DIANE DI PRIMA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This, then, is the gift the world has given me
Subject(s): Snow


FIRST SNOW, LAST SNOW, by BRIAN BURKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the first snow since your death
Last Line: Or remember your last snow living
Subject(s): Death; Memory; Snow


FIRST SNOW: CAMBRIDGE, MASS, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees cough up a plentitude of starlings
Subject(s): Snow


FIRST SNOWFALL, by MURIEL DOE THURNEYSEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The calves stand in one corner of the yard
Last Line: To tell the puzzled youngsters: this is snow!
Subject(s): Animals; Barns; Snow


FIRST STORMS, by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The snow comes too soon
Last Line: From its dark, close room
Subject(s): Snow; Storms; Winter


FIVE EXTEMPORANEOUS QUATRAINS: 2. RHYMING ON 'SNOW', by CHU SHU-CHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her fragrant dress and neat petticoat are like a slender crescent moon
Last Line: Her two sleeves whirl like floating snow
Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Dancing And Dancers; Snow


FLURRY, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is an excited non-serious kind of snowstorm
Last Line: His duty to eros fulfilled, the world none the worse for it
Subject(s): Snow


FOLLOWING A CABIN CRUISER IN A BLIZZARD, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nose raised to the wind
Last Line: With salt sea water, %or blood
Subject(s): Cruise Ships; Snow; Storms; Travel


FOR A SNOW IN LATE DECEMBER, by MAX GARLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the snow that turned
Last Line: Through the net of the streetlamp
Subject(s): Snow


FOR LEW WELCH IN A SNOWFALL, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Snowfall in march
Subject(s): Snow


FOR LITTLE CHO SAN, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow on the bamboo, sigh and fall
Last Line: Bare are the branches, all around!)
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Snow; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


FOR THE NIGHT TO WEAR, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: For the twilight, the wet snow
Last Line: The polar wind.
Subject(s): Snow; Wind; Winter


FREEZE, by CARL PHILLIPS            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The only light in the room
Subject(s): Snow


FREEZE, by CARL PHILLIPS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The only light in the room
Last Line: I wondered %if the snow fell there, too
Subject(s): Snow


FRESH SNOW, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Snow rolls off the roof
Last Line: That stun you like rum
Subject(s): Snow; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Winter


FROM MY WINDOW, by ELNA L. VON PINGEL    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Clinging where they rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rasmussen, Elna
Subject(s): Snow; Winter


FROST, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow lengthens out the wintry light
Last Line: In frozen foam of light.
Subject(s): Frost; Snow


GATHERED ROSES, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As one through some beloved garden strays
Last Line: Given to emptiness and wind and snow?
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Roses; Snow


GETTING THROUGH, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to apologize
Last Line: If there's an april %in the last frail snow of april %they will knock hard to be born
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Snow; Survival


GLOWING EMBERS ILLUMINATE THE SNOW, by SANDOR CSOORI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm mired again in the horsehsoe-shaped valley
Last Line: A log's glowing embers illuminate the snow
Subject(s): Danube (river); Snow; Winter


GOD'S WEATHER: JANUARY, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Up the whitening blue, as the day-star grows dimmer
Last Line: Whip out a mad peal to just weather—god's weather.
Subject(s): Months; Snow; Time; Weather; Winter


HAIKU: 6, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The falling snow flakes
Subject(s): Snow; Pain; Suffering; Misery


HILL MAN'S BURIAL, by LILLIAN M. (PETTES) AINSWORTH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over the wind-blown snow, drifting drearily
Last Line: The long black box to the grave in the hollow.
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Graves; Horses; Snow; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


HOARFROST AND FOG, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I walk six blocks to the park.
Last Line: The snow is nearly up to her knees. %I breathe, and I breathe, and I breathe.
Subject(s): Snow; Weather; Winter


HOPE DEFERRED, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, snows so pure! Oh, peaks so high!
Last Line: I shall not reach you till I die!
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Hope; Snow; Optimism


HOW NEAR TO FEAR, by TOM LINKLATER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Suddenly, we couldn't even hear our own hearts / roaring
Subject(s): Fear; Snow


ICE, by LENNART SJOGREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Such as had an interest
Last Line: And the fishes saw a well in the sun
Subject(s): Ice; Snow; Winter


ICE STORM, by CHARLOTTE BLAKE LORING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Above my head the branch no longer green
Last Line: Whose shadow had pressed heavy on my heart.
Subject(s): Birds; Snow; Trees


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


ILLUMINATION, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ground lapis for the sky, and scrolls of gold
Last Line: That will find their way to the light through drifts of snow
Subject(s): Christmas; Light; Snow; Nativity, The


ILLUMINATION, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ground lapis for the sky, and scrolls of gold
Last Line: That will find their way to the light through drifts of snow
Subject(s): Christmas; Light; Snow


ILLUSION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the golden corn is bending
Last Line: That my dream was false and vain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Dreams; Hallucinations And Illusions; Snow; Soul; Nightmares


IMPERIAL SONG FOR WARMTH, by ALAN DUGAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow that makes graces on a soldier's sleeve
Subject(s): Soldiers; Snow


IN A SNOW STORM, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The evanescent wonder of the snow
Last Line: For out of death comes life; -- the twain are one!
Subject(s): Death; Life; Snow; Dead, The


IN BALANCE, by ERIC PANKEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A large torn branch, broken by wind
Subject(s): Snow; Storms


IN LIMBO, by DAVID KELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This past winter turkey buzzards, vultures
Last Line: Have been told it meant, wary of anything like joy
Subject(s): Snow; War; Winter


IN SNOW, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O english mother, in the ruddy glow
Last Line: Shot by the stranger on his native hills.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Mothers; Snow


IN SNOW TIME, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: How should I choose to walk the world with thee
Last Line: But let me walk beside thee in its snow
Subject(s): Snow;winter


IN THE DEEP WHITE SNOW, by ANNE ATWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: They heard my footsteps faint and low
Last Line: By the slim white trees.
Subject(s): Snow


IN THE GRASS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am one with waving things
Last Line: I am one with waving things.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grass; Snow; Soul; Nightmares


IN THE SNOW, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Hear how my friend the robin sings!
Last Line: I laugh and blow my life's warm breath.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Snow


IN THE SNOW, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The track of the ermine
Last Line: Covers the track of the %ermine mouse and deer
Subject(s): Snow


IN WHITE CITY, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My thoughts turn south
Variant Title(s): A White City
Subject(s): Dreams; Snow; Nightmares


IN WHITE CITY, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My thoughts turn south
Last Line: And find it has snowed
Variant Title(s): A White Cit
Subject(s): Dreams; Snow


INFINITE BLISS, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I first saw snow cover the air
Last Line: Reflected snow, where we lay
Subject(s): Snow; Love - Erotic


INSIDE, by MARTHA COLLINS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This time she called across the room while the rain
Last Line: She moved inside, as a woman moves into a room.
Subject(s): Relationships; Snow


INTERLUDE, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are waiting for snow
Subject(s): Snow


IRON BRIGADE HIGHWAY, by MARTHA MODENA VERTREACE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old folks say snow days are for making love
Last Line: Yes, if I had to, yes I would %yes I could choose you again
Subject(s): Snow; Winter


IT ISN'T ONLY FLAKES THAT FALL, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Full Text                    
Last Line: It isn't only flakes that fall
Subject(s): Snow; Stars; Flowers


IT SNOWS, by SARAH JOSEPHA BUELL HALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It snows!' cries the school-boy - 'hurrah!' and his shout
Last Line: T is a most bitter lot to be poor, when it snows!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Sara; Hale, Sarah Josepha
Subject(s): Snow


IT SNOWS AND IT BLOWS, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It snows and it blows, it is cold, stormy / weather
Last Line: For it snows, etc.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Sky; Snow; Storms; Weather; Winter


JACK FROST, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ho! Ancient friend and honest peddler, jack
Last Line: Of boys snowballing on the village green!
Subject(s): Frost; Snow; Winter


JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 52. WINTER SKETCHES, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now that black ground and bushes
Subject(s): Winter; Snow; New York City; Subways; Landscape; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


JOURNEY TO A KNOWN PLACE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tundra, the distant marches. And wind veering, clatter of steely grasses
Subject(s): Nature; Snow


JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Into the infinite white
Last Line: Snow. Spice-plants. Salt
Subject(s): Ghosts; Imagination; Poetry And Poets; Snow; Supernatural


LADY ICICLE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little lady icicle is dreaming in the north-land
Last Line: Little lady icicle is coming with the snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Snow


LATE SNOW IN THE SMOKIES, by ELIZABETH JONES BROWNING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Spring, one night
Last Line: That palmer knew, and corot could not miss.
Subject(s): Smoky Mountains; Snow; Spring


LEDA HIDDEN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas eve, unseasonable cold
Subject(s): Christmas; Parks; Snow; Nativity, The


LEDA HIDDEN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas eve, unseasonable cold
Last Line: And the snow and the odor %of the frosty water
Subject(s): Christmas; Parks; Snow


LET IT SNOW, by FANNY HOWE    Poem Full Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let it snow unless it is in heaven
Last Line: Winter dinner bell
Subject(s): Snow


LI PO, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fire makes noises like snow on wet panes
Last Line: The fire is less naster of the cold night than the snow
Subject(s): Fire; Snow


LIGHT SNOW SHOWS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That even the old wagon track %is new
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Snow


LINES WRITTEN ON A WINDOW AT THE LEASOWES AT A TIME OF VERY DEEP SNOW, by WILLIAM SHENSTONE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this small fort, besieged with snow
Last Line: And keep false friends away
Subject(s): Snow


LITTLE ADVICE FOR THE SNOW, by MAX GARLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: I think the snow needs a little rest now
Last Line: And let whatever he sees there %begin to happen
Subject(s): Snow


LITTLE SHIPS IN THE AIR, by EDWARD AUGUSTIUS RAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flakes of snow, with sails so white
Subject(s): Nature; Snow; Winter


LITTLE SNOW WAS HERE AND THERE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Too obdurate for snows
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1444; Poem: 148
Subject(s): Snow


LONDON SNOW, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When [or, while] men were all asleep the snow came flying
Last Line: At the sight of the beauty that greets them, for the charm they have broken.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): London; Snow


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


LOOKING AT NEW-FALLEN SNOW FROM A TRAIN, by ROBERT BLY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow has covered the next line of tracks
Subject(s): Railroads; Snow; Railways; Trains


LOOKING AT NEW-FALLEN SNOW FROM A TRAIN, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow has covered the next line of tracks
Last Line: Each blade of grass is a voice. %the sword by his side breaks into flame
Subject(s): Railroads; Snow


LOVE IN EXILE I: 28, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On life's long round by chance I found
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Snow; Flowers


MARCH SNOW AS MEMORY, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We left our footprints on a night like this
Subject(s): Snow; Absence; Separation; Isolation


MARIE TAGLIONI, by JOAN SWIFT    Poem Source                    
First Line: She wondered how she could leave the world behind
Last Line: In the mornings, of course, the ice is gone
Subject(s): History; Rape; Relationships; Snow; Women


MARRIAGE DRESS, by CAROL HENRIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through my own teeth
Last Line: The intricate lace of bridal snow %backlit by embers
Subject(s): Marriage; Snow


MAY SNOW, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: May is a blue and gold and green
Last Line: You're just petals from the tree!
Subject(s): May (month); Snow; Weather


ME HOLDING YOUR HAND HOLDING BACK, by DENNIS COOLEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Sound of blood rumbles in them
Subject(s): Love; Snow; Togetherness; Winter


MEMORY OF SNOW, by SANDOR CSOORI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At times winter changes its mind
Last Line: Peeling silently
Subject(s): Snow; Winter


MILK AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, by OSCAR WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the bowl of buildings alias the back yard
Last Line: Pure, cold, diffuse and wayward like the snow
Subject(s): Snow


MIRANDA, by DANIEL TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From my window I watch the flurries whirl
Last Line: Is rain and wind, grimacing under its weight
Subject(s): Memory; Snow; Travel


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


MOONRISE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The first snows of the year lie white
Last Line: While faint the windy stars are seen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Moon; Night; Pine Trees; Snow; Trees; Bedtime


MORE SNOW FALLING, by PETER KANE DUFAULT    Poem Source                    
First Line: One huge hush the whole day
Last Line: No frills, just infinity
Subject(s): Life; Snow


MORNING AFTER, by DENNIS COOLEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: So loud it hurts
Subject(s): Cold; Marriage; Skating And Skaters; Snow; Sports; Winter


MUSIC ON THE TIN ROOF, by GERALDINE FAY GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The snow is melting - eaves begin to drip
Last Line: Just water dripping on the roof in spring.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Snow


MY TREE, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's the cedar--the mother of lingonberry--that is my tree
Last Line: Among all the trees on earth it is nearest to the great snows, %to the blind son of the glacier. I w
Subject(s): Glaciers; Snow; Strength; Trees; Winter


MYTHICS, by HELEN CHASIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the cautionary tales of strange girls
Last Line: Now, rewarded, I submit to his transfiguration
Subject(s): Beauty And The Beast; Cinderella; Fairy Tales; Ondine; Psyche (mythology); Rapunzel; Rumpelstiltskin; Snow White; Women


NEVER PLANNED IT THIS WAY, by DENNIS COOLEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Dry ice in the wrong season
Subject(s): Desolation; Snow; Winter


NEWS ARRIVING ON A SNOWY DAY, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nims's brilliant st. John of the cross
Last Line: Those whirling clouds of stars? John's new translation
Subject(s): News; Snow


NIGHT OF SNOW, by BETSY PAYNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Walk gently in the snow this night
Last Line: Speak nothing but a prayer.
Subject(s): Snow


NOEL, by JEANNETTE EVERETT LAWS    Poem Text                    
First Line: How soft the fingers of the snow
Last Line: And let the christmas spirit pass.
Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus; Snow; Winter; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


NOT ONLY ESKIMOS, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Snow


NOT WRITING MY NAME, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the snow, that is. The 'j' could have been
Last Line: I have become the place the crow didn't appear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Snow; Winter; Writing & Writers


NOUMENON, by CASSIA BERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It would snow so much in russia, my uncle told me, that the roads
Last Line: The answers to their questions
Subject(s): Memory; Russia; Snow; Winter


ODES 1, 9. VIDES UT ALTA, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep snow! Soracte stands solid under it
Last Line: Or from a finger an easy forfeit.
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Snow; Storms; Weather; Winter


ODES TO NEA: 5. THE SNOW-SPIRIT, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No, ne'er did the wave in its element steep
Last Line: But the snow-spirit cannot come here!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Snow


OLD MAN CRIES OUT INTO THE DRIVING SNOW, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cold and mosquitoes
Last Line: This is me really me %me
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Snow


OLD MAN'S NURSERY RHYME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the jolly winters
Last Line: Oh! No! No!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Snow; Winter; Dead, The


ON A DAY WHEN SNOW SWIRLS IN THICK FLAKES, by IM UIJIK    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Look! This the white-jade palace, %no other than a fairyland
Subject(s): Snow


ON SNOW (RIDDLE), by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From heaven I fall, though from earth I begin
Variant Title(s): Whiter Than Whit
Subject(s): Riddles; Snow


ON THE DARK, STILL, DRY, WARM WEATHER ... IN WINTER MONTHS, by GILBERT WHITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The imprisoned winds slumber within their caves
Last Line: And float the deluged paths and miry fields.
Subject(s): Air; Snow; Weather; Wind; Winter


ON THE FORTHCOMING VOLUME OF SIDNEY LANIER'S POEMS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow! Snow! Snow
Last Line: In spite of the snow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881); Poetry & Poets; Snow


ONCE IN A LIFETIME, SNOW, by LES A. MURRAY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Winters at home brought wind
Last Line: And another child
Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan
Subject(s): Australia; Snow; Winter


ONCE ONLY: AUSTIN SNOW, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw you that way, late afternoons, always
Last Line: Mating of a swan and some god of the night
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Snow


ONE DEGREE SHY OF SNOW, by CAROL KIVO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stumble over half frozen earth
Last Line: It is one degree shy of snow
Subject(s): Frost; Skiing; Snow; Winter


ONOMASTICS & THE FALLING SNOW, by STEPHEN ORLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Most everything has a name except the falling snow
Last Line: Just beyond my reach, waiting to be called upon again
Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve
Subject(s): Snow


OUT IN THE SNOW, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow and the silence came down together
Last Line: But young folks know why the snow came down.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Snow


OUTSIDE THE DOOR, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Outside the door the bare tree stands
Last Line: Until a puffing wind comes by.
Subject(s): February; Snow; Winter


OVERTIME, by KEVIN CRAFT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Midnight the phone rings %it is snowing eight inches
Last Line: Accrue like snow %in the shoulder of the road
Subject(s): Snow


PARAGRAPHS: 9, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the custom of my tribe to be silent
Last Line: Indivisible, unvoiced
Subject(s): Native Americans; Snow; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


PUP IN THE SNOWSTORM, by FRANCES MARY FROST    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My lop eared pup looking up at me
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Snow


QUATRAIN: SNOW-HELD, by RUTH CLAY PRICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Your searching touch has found
Last Line: The scent of summer fields.
Subject(s): Snow


RAIN AFTER SNOW, by ELIZABETH CROW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Crystal and silver is this day
Last Line: Of beauty through a crystal case.
Subject(s): Rain; Snow


READING SNOW WHITE TO MY DAUGHTER, by MAUREEN RYAN GRIFFIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here eyes widen. She actually gasps
Last Line: Is choking me. I keep on %reading, feeding her %what she will need
Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Mothers And Daughters; Snow White


RESIGNATION, by EMILY ANN COFFMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Her tragedies she always keeps alive
Last Line: Under the white covering of the snow.
Subject(s): Snow


RHYME-PROSE ON THE SNOW, by HSIEH HUI-LIEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The year was ending, the season in its twilight; cold winds
Last Line: Free, my heart wanders far and wide; %what is there to fret over, what is there to plan?
Subject(s): Snow


ROADS IN THE SNOW, by J. MAE GARDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, the snow makes me think
Subject(s): Snow


SAFE CONDUCT, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The snowplow was a rattling iron box
Last Line: As distant as this world.
Subject(s): Death; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Plowing & Plowmen; Snow; Dead, The; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


SAINT FRANCIS IN WINTER, by RUTH KNOWLES    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is a sorry slight to leave out there
Last Line: If so he yet can speak, he knows not death.
Subject(s): Ice; Snow; Stones; Winter; Granite; Rocks


SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 3. VARIATIONS: 2. SNOW AT SEA, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silently fell / the snow on the waters
Last Line: In the winter evening.
Subject(s): Sea; Snow; Ocean


SHAWHAN, KENTUCKY: WINTER 1978, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: The trees explode outward
Last Line: In the snow and fiercely live
Subject(s): Despair; Kentucky; Labor And Laborers; Snow; Winter


SILENT DEPTHS, by THOMAS ROSENLOCHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: As though tipped down from the top of the sky
Last Line: Of great quantities of air trapped under the ice
Subject(s): Snow; Winter


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


SINGING OF SNOW, by ZHANG YUNIANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The heavens are shrouded
Last Line: But to whom can they speak?
Subject(s): Snow


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


SKIES CLEARING AFTER SNOW, by YANG WENLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through the night snow fell heavily
Last Line: I stand, it seems, within a vessel of jade
Subject(s): Snow


SLEEPING WITH TWO WOMEN, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I remember it, we emptied
Last Line: Continents. Perfectly at home, perfectly lost
Subject(s): Kansas; Snow; Winter


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 JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fine white bread is sold in helsingfors in a little kiosk
Last Line: In the lesser antilles it is worshipped as a god
Subject(s): Bread; Mankind; Snow


SNOW, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Source                    
First Line: His softest feathers winter thither sent
Last Line: But at his presence into tears it fell, %checked by a whiter, chaster spectacle
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Snow


SNOW, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alone
Last Line: Lone.
Subject(s): Snow; Solitude; Loneliness


SNOW, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brave winter and I shall ever agree
Last Line: Hurrah! Then hurrah! For the drifting snow!
Subject(s): Snow; Winter


SNOW, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who affirms that crystals are alive?
Last Line: Crowned with snows to catch the morning's fire
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The three stood listening to a fresh access
Last Line: "what'll you bet he ever calls again?"
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW, by BLANCHE M. GARDNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: One night the wind and snow came down
Last Line: But not my memory.
Subject(s): Snow


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 JANICE GOULD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Snow had fallen during the night,
Last Line: Delicious as sweet rolls and tangerines
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW, by KIM SUYONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Snow stirs with life
Last Line: That's been deposited in the heart all night long
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Snow


SNOW, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was
Last Line: There is more than glass between the snow and the huge roses
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Snow


SNOW, by JOSEPH MONCURE MARCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: All night I heard the dry snow whispering
Last Line: I turned back from the window with a shudder.
Subject(s): Snow


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, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Low clouds hand on the mountain
Last Line: Purple and citron and leaves
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Low clouds hand on the mountain
Last Line: Purple and citron oak leaves
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the gray air grew snow and more snow
Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R.
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the gray air grew snow and more snow
Last Line: And friction in all fixed things, virtue in vice, %the bomb domanial in the dome of blue
Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R.
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I melted the snow
Last Line: Timid, sky blue roses
Subject(s): Snow; Winter


SNOW, by FREDERICK SEIDEL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow is what it does
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW, by RUTH STONE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Plentiful snow deepens the path to the woods
Last Line: In the well of the wind, and feathers fly from the rip
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the gloom of whiteness
Last Line: On the child crying for the bird of snow
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW, by TZU LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dense, swirling, falling through azure emptiness
Last Line: Vagrant flakes drift in and stain his inkstone black
Subject(s): Ice; Snow; White (color); Winter; Zen Buddhism


SNOW, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow comes down on new york city
Last Line: You will later eat before it is cooked.
Subject(s): New York City; Snow; Winter; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SNOW (1), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This meal-white snow
Last Line: The heart sighs answer, %benedicite!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW (2), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No breath of wind
Last Line: His lonely tune.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW - A WINTER SKETCH, by RALPH HOYT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The blessed morn has come again
Last Line: How fair, how fair!
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW AND STARS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The grackles sing avant the spring
Subject(s): Grackles; Snow; Stars


SNOW AT NIGHT, by AUGUSTA WRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The snow falls like ghost-stars and lights the pines
Last Line: Until a white shroud blots out the landscape.
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW BY MORNING, by MAY SWENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some for everyone
Last Line: A new loaf on every doorsill
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW CHANGE, by MAY LEWIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw a white house, in the snow
Last Line: The sweep of the hill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Goldstone, Mrs. Lafayette Anthony
Subject(s): Seasons; Snow; White (color); Winter


SNOW COUNTRY, by DAVE ETTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only %a little %yellow
Last Line: Wyoming %from the train %yesterday
Subject(s): Snow; Wyoming


SNOW CURLEW, by VERNON WATKINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow has fallen all night
Last Line: Making the driftwood catch, %to coax, where the cry fades, fires which cannot fall
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW DAY, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today we woke up to a revolution of snow
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW FALL, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It looks so delicate and sweet
Last Line: In covering up our melancholy.
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW FALLING THROUGH FOG, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is how we used to imagine
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Snow; Sea; Ocean


SNOW GEESE, by ALAN+(2) SULLIVAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the last asters have withered
Last Line: The blizzard comes swiftly behind
Subject(s): Geese; Snow; Storms


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 IN APRIL, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An april snow!- 'tis as the head of youth
Last Line: "long shall I ""pause till it come back to me."
Subject(s): Aging; April; Snow


SNOW IN JERUSALEM, by JERRY MAZZA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reports the new york times
Last Line: The simmering landscape's pyre
Subject(s): Floods; News; Snow; Winter


SNOW IN SCHOOLTIME, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: All saturday the sky was clear
Last Line: To see how much stays on the ground.
Subject(s): Children; December; Schools; Snow; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students


SNOW IN THE AIR, by VERA FLANDORF    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have walked in florida
Last Line: When snow is in the air.
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW IN THE CITY, by DANNY SIEGEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The roads were jammed
Last Line: Like a wedding %of heaven and earth
Variant Title(s): Jerusalem In The Snow: Snow In The Cit
Subject(s): Jerusalem; Snow


SNOW IN THE SUBURBS, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every branch big with it
Last Line: And we take him in.
Subject(s): Snow; Suburbs


SNOW IN TOWN, by RICKMAN MARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nothing is quite so quiet and clean
Last Line: "as big or bigger than me!"
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW IS STORMING, by SANDOR CSOORI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Like the poor, %like the prisoners-of-war
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Snow; Winter


SNOW JOBS, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: X had the funds, the friends, the plan
Last Line: But where's the slush of yesteryear?
Subject(s): Politics; Snow


SNOW LAYERING ROOFTOPS, by TERRI LYNETTE BROWN-DAVIDSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mind doesn't seek oblivion. She tells herself this
Last Line: Shooting the oon with her broken kodak, trembling, seduced
Subject(s): February; Snow


SNOW LEOPARDS AT THE DENVER ZOO, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are only a hundred or so
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Zoos; Snow Leopards


SNOW LIGHT, by CHASE TWICHELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stop, winded. The air sifting down
Last Line: Though that is the meaning we give them
Subject(s): Light; Snow


SNOW OR SNOWDROPS?, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it snow or snowdrops' shimmer
Last Line: In his face her snowdrops fling?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW REST, by CARMELITA A. LECLAIR    Poem Text                    
First Line: The down of angels wafted slowly to the earth
Last Line: Obscured as the floss in a blanket heaven-made.
Subject(s): Angels; Snow; White (color); Winter


SNOW SOLACE, by REBECCA FUSFELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: A clean wind ushers the new year in
Last Line: A newly-made bridal shroud.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Snow; Winter


SNOW SONG, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fairy snow, fairy snow
Last Line: On his lips that are warm.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW SONGS: 1, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One. Now another. One
Last Line: Most never seen. %all, gone
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW SONGS: 2, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First, the exhausted, brown
Last Line: What with the pervasive, dense %smother of shredded documents
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW SONGS: 3, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White out; white out; so
Last Line: And the lighted %screen that will flick off
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW SONGS: 4, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The leading colonists of summer
Last Line: With long abandoned, half-finished %plans, conclusions drawn
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW SONGS: 5, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The horizon, a maternal flour sifter
Last Line: Whitewash, whitewash over holy wishdom's dome
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW SONGS: 6, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now snow lies level
Last Line: The radio up louder; try to %catch the local dialect
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW SONGS: 7, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: 8,000,000 alleluias or %lace paper valentines, these
Last Line: This dull white coverlet %over the patient's eyes
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW SONGS: 8, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Leaving the snow
Last Line: Plaster hardening, %a fading face
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW STORM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Everywhere men speak in whispers
Last Line: Force, and the night comes on.
Subject(s): Army Life; Old Age; Snow; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics


SNOW STORM, by SUSAN GOLDMARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: All still and softly through the night
Last Line: Realization of my dream.
Subject(s): Snow; Winter


SNOW THAT NEVER DRIFTS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As near as memory
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1133; Poem: 115
Subject(s): Snow


SNOW VISITS MAGGIORE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Luckily the sun isn't out and the snow
Last Line: Be many a body bereft of its soul!
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Snow; Winter; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SNOW-FALL, by LENNART SJOGREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't ask me how the blood qiuetens
Last Line: Are caught by cheerfulness when the snow falls
Subject(s): Snow; Winter


SNOW-FLAKES, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenever a snow-flake leaves the sky
Last Line: "t is summer!"" -- and it melts away."
Subject(s): Nature; Snow; Summer


SNOW-SPELL, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The world was wrapped in a robe of ravishing white
Last Line: Lay white and beautiful beneath the snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson
Subject(s): Hate; Sleep; Snow; War


SNOW-STORM, by GIOSUE CARDUCCI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Large, slow snowflakes fall from an ashen heaven: the noisy
Last Line: Shall to the silence descend, lay me to rest in the gloom
Subject(s): Snow; Storms; Winter


SNOW-WRAITH, by ELSA PUTNAM POWEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The woodland was white and still
Last Line: Wraith of the snow?
Subject(s): Snow


SNOWBALL-TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the snow first comes, so fine an' thin
Last Line: If ever any snow gets down inside.
Subject(s): Children; Snow; Childhood


SNOWBOUND, by CHARLES TOMLINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now we have locked the doors against the snow
Last Line: Our cell of fire beneath the blank of space
Subject(s): Home; Snow


SNOWBOUND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun that brief december day / rose cheerless over hills of gray
Last Line: The benediction of the air.
Variant Title(s): New England In Winter;a Winter Idyl;snow-bound;snow-bound: A Winter Idyll
Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Massachusetts; Memory; Religion; Snow; Winter; Relatives; Theology


SNOWDROP, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The white lips just above the ground
Last Line: I kissed the blossom just awake.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Snow


SNOWDROP AND CROCUS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long were the wintry days and cold
Last Line: No wonder earth is glad to-day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Snow; Winter


SNOWDROPS, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little ladies, white and green
Subject(s): Snow


SNOWDROPS, by NIGEL JENKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know what I am doing here
Last Line: The year may live
Subject(s): Snow


SNOWDROPS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As a blossom of the light
Last Line: Came her counterpart of snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Snow


SNOWDROPS 1987, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Isn't it nice (diane keaton
Subject(s): Snow


SNOWED UNDER, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come let us talk together
Last Line: The life of endless may.
Subject(s): Snow


SNOWED UNDER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of a thousand things that the year snowed under
Last Line: Your mantle of ermine, tell me, pray!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Hope; Snow; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Optimism


SNOWFALL, by KIM DONG-HWAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the north snow falls for days and nights on end
Last Line: Snow falls quietly in thickening fleece
Subject(s): Snow


SNOWFALL, by MARK STRAND    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Watching snow cover the ground, cover itself
Subject(s): Snow


SNOWFALL, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She can't be unhappy, you said
Last Line: Smothered in snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Snow


SNOWFALL IN THE NOVEMBER AFTERNOON, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The grass is half-covered with snow
Subject(s): Snow


SNOWFALL IN THE WOOD, by MARY SINTON LEITCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow is falling ... Falling ... Now the red
Last Line: Than when the snow falls softly in a wood.
Subject(s): Snow


SNOWFALL: FOUR VARIATIONS, by GEORGE AMABILE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Angels %might fall that way
Last Line: Out of the dark ages of the sky
Subject(s): Snow


SNOWFLAKE (1), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before I melt, %come, look at me!
Last Line: Breathe, and I vanish %instantly
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Snow


SNOWFLAKE BENTLEY, by ADRIE S. KUSSEROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even in fall, his brain craving
Last Line: For the joy of the infinite %opening inside him
Subject(s): Mankind; Snow; Winter


SNOWFLAKE ON ASPHODEL, CLEAR ICE ON ROSE, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Snow's death on dying flower, yet both immortal - %love, these are you and I - enter this portal
Subject(s): Love; Snow


SNOWFLAKES, by HOMER HIGH CALHOUN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of the gray-draped skies they come
Last Line: They swirl a pillow for its head.
Subject(s): Snow


SNOWFLAKES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I counted till they danced so
Last Line: Are marshalled for a jig!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 36; Poem: 4
Subject(s): Snow


SNOWFLAKES, by FREDA EFTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whirling breathless through the air
Last Line: Of the earth and sky!
Subject(s): Earth; Sky; Snow; Trees; World


SNOWFLAKES, by KIM NAM-JO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here in the bleak waste of convention
Last Line: For the snowflakes to burst them %into blossoms?
Subject(s): Snow


SNOWFLAKES, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the bosom of the air
Last Line: To wood and field.
Subject(s): Snow


SNOWFLAKES IN HELL, by LEN ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We would all melt from the heat / of our sins
Subject(s): Schools; Snow; Students


SNOWFLAKES, MY MOTHER CALLED THEM, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Stood, made of skill and absence
Subject(s): Mothers; Grandparents; Snow; Childhood Memories


SNOWIN', by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dey is snow upon the meddas, dey is snow upon de hill
Last Line: Ef it was n't fu' de trackin' o' de possum an' de coon.
Subject(s): Snow


SNOWMAN, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is a poem for tom
Last Line: For all of the good providers
Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Labor And Laborers; Men; Murder; Self-doubt; Snow


SNOWS, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the long-bearded chilly-fingered winter
Last Line: Green and unchanging to the wandering stars.
Subject(s): Snow; Winter


SNOWSHOE[ING] SONG, by ARTHUR WEIR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hilloo, hilloo, hilloo, hilloo!
Last Line: We must be home again to-night.
Subject(s): Snow


SNOWSTORM IN THE DUSK, by EDWARD SAPIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great dabs of gray
Last Line: And there's a moaning, moaning, in the gloom.
Subject(s): Snow; Storms; Weather; Winter


SNOWY NIGHT, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My books lie scattered all around
Last Line: The winds that bear the whir %of mighty wings
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Snow


SNOWY OWL, by SHARON FAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ten yars old, I climbed stone fences
Last Line: I bring only the luminous surface %of things. That, and the hunger
Subject(s): Children; Nature; Snow


SOFT SNOW, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked abroad on a snowy day
Last Line: And the winter called it a dreadful crime.
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Snow; Winter


SOLITARY NOTE, by VASILE IGNA    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the snowstorm sinks into sleep
Last Line: The sea's language of coral and seaweed?
Subject(s): Sea; Snow; Winter


SOLO, by CHASE TWICHELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing to watch but the snow
Subject(s): Snow; Solitude; Loneliness


SONG OF THE SNOW FLAKES, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We're very small, we're very small
Last Line: What a white, white world the world can be!
Subject(s): December; Snow; Winter


SONG: 35, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow queen passed our way last night
Last Line: To catch the morning's gold and red.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Snow


SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 3. COUNTRY NIGHTFALL, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are no paths when the snow comes
Last Line: For a man come home again.
Subject(s): Home; Night; Snow; Wind; Bedtime


SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; SEA-MEWS IN WINTER TIME, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked beside a dark grey sea
Last Line: I walked in joy, and was not cold.
Subject(s): Earth; Happiness; Sea; Snow; Winter; World; Joy; Delight; Ocean


SONNET: TO THE FIRST SNOWDROP, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair, sunny-hearted child of many tears!
Last Line: Her heart, like thine, is lit with vestal fire.
Subject(s): Snow


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 35, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your white face is like a garden
Last Line: Your mouth and your eyes
Subject(s): Snow


SPARKS AND SNOW FELL, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The house was heart of pine
Last Line: Red ashes in the snow
Subject(s): Fire; Snow


SPRING BLIZZARD, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A limb's sententious crack
Last Line: I wish you wouldn't look at me that way
Subject(s): Snow; Spring


STARLIGHT, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The chill sad evening wind of winter blows
Last Line: Sad as the breathing of a human sigh.
Subject(s): Death; Snow; Winter; Dead, The


STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose woods these are I think I know
Last Line: And miles to go before I sleep.
Subject(s): Duty; Evening; Forests; Religion; Snow; Solitude; Winter; Sunset; Twilight; Woods; Theology; Loneliness


STORIES OF SNOW, by PATRICIA KATHLEEN PAGE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those in the vegetable rain retain
Alternate Author Name(s): Page, P. K.
Subject(s): Snow


STORIES OF SNOW, by PATRICIA KATHLEEN PAGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those in the vegetable rain retain
Last Line: Through to the area behind the eyes %where silent, unrefractive whiteness lies
Alternate Author Name(s): Page, P. K.
Subject(s): Snow


SUMMER AGAIN, by YVES BONNEFOY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I step out into the snow, my eyes shut
Subject(s): Snow; Summer


TAKING A SNOW BATH, by SHARON CHMIELARZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's simple when there's powder snow
Last Line: But the wingmarks, precise as knifecuts %and the bad blood, pure
Subject(s): Play; Snow


TAPISSERIE 8 MONTHS' SNOW, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Kaolin, drawing circles, dust, he said
Last Line: There are quite a few of them by now
Subject(s): Relationships; Snow; Winter


TERMINUS, by ALICE JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The snow ghost pursued me
Last Line: Of the sierras in spring's last storm
Subject(s): Snow; Winter


TEXAS ACRE IN SNOW, by LORA BETH PENNINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Look! Nature is planting snow-flowers
Last Line: Only waiting, waiting silence.
Subject(s): Snow


THAW, by EUNICE TIETJENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow is soft, and how it squashes!
Last Line: Galumph, galumph!' go my galoshes
Alternate Author Name(s): Head, Cloyd, Mrs.
Subject(s): Snow


THE AMERICAN PARTRIDGE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Neglected minstrel of the single song
Last Line: Bob white!
Subject(s): Snow


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE FACE OF THE DAM: VIVIAN JONES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the hour he shuts the door and walks out of town;
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Snow; Dams; Work; Workers


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 BUGLER FROM THE PEAKS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is this cry that sudden seems to shake
Last Line: The bull-elk bugles midst the topmost peaks!
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Night; Snow; Stars; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Bedtime


THE CRYSTAL LITHIUM, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The smell of snow, stinging in nostrils as the wind lifts it from a beach
Subject(s): Chemical Elements; Snow


THE CURTAIN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just over the horizon a great machine of death is roaring and rearing
Last Line: Cheers, baby. Here’s to us. See how the curtain of snow wavers and then falls back
Subject(s): Snow


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 DEFEAT OF WINTER, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But yester morn the frozen snow
Last Line: Upon it all shall melt in bliss.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Frost; Memory; Mourning; Snow; Winter; Bereavement


THE FACE OF THE PRECIPICE IS BLACK WITH LOVERS, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are you now
Last Line: Scatching a living from the snow
Subject(s): Absence; Love; Snow; Separation; Isolation


THE FIRST BLIZZARD, by NOLANNE O'HAIR    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lambs that came last april had no way
Last Line: To teach lambs not to be afraid of snow.
Subject(s): Snow


THE FIRST BLUEBIRD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jest rain and snow! And rain again!
Last Line: Hopped out o' bed with me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Rain; Snow


THE FIRST SNOW, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not yet was winter come to earth's soft floor
Last Line: Their anguish over-past.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Snow


THE FIRST SNOW, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dogwood has its bloom again
Last Line: Against the keen gold of the west!
Subject(s): Snow


THE FIRST SNOW, by ADA CASSELL SELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The trees are harps for the wind to play
Last Line: The man who hunts or the child at play?
Subject(s): Snow


THE FIRST SNOW STORM, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The very first snow of the year, mama
Last Line: Around in my underclothes.
Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Snow


THE FIRST SNOWFALL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow had begun in the gloaming
Last Line: Folded close under deepening snow.
Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; Snow; Dead, The; Death - Babies


THE FIRST SNOWFALL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fir tree felt it with a thrill
Last Line: The countersign of death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Snow


THE FIRST WINTER SNOW, by RICHARD BRAUTIGAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, pretty girl, you have trapped
Subject(s): Snow


THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I never care when my feet are wet
Last Line: But I hate when snow gets into my boots.
Subject(s): Children; Snow; Childhood


THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 3. WINTER, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the snow, / a frozen barefoot penitent I go
Last Line: My sins are scarlet. She was white as snow.
Subject(s): Death; Knights & Knighthood; Snow; Winter; Dead, The


THE LAST SALOON IN LUBBOCK, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bulky in coats
Last Line: In stiff winds banging the roof.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Variant Title(s): Dawn Of The Bitter Blizzard
Subject(s): Bells; Birds; Buzzards; Ghosts; Snow; Supernatural; Winter


THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF THE SNOW, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One of your old-world stories, uncle john
Last Line: As one would scatter flowers upon a bier.
Subject(s): Children; Story-telling; Snow; Childhood


THE MOON, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Their footprints on her face
Last Line: For women are, after all, only space.
Subject(s): Earth; Snow; Women; World


THE NEW CHRISTMAS, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the good old days, in the spacious days, when the christmas
Last Line: As the snow a man shakes from his shoulders as he comes to his own front gate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Christmas; Earth; Snow; Socialism; Nativity, The; World


THE OLD PINE TREE, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Listen my child,' said the old pine tree to the little one nestling near
Last Line: "drifts are lying."
Subject(s): Snow; Sports; Winter


THE PATH THROUGH THE SNOW, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bare and sunshiny, bright and bleak
Last Line: Whither heaven leads in the path thro' the snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Snow


THE PHANTOM COMPOSER, by IRENE DAKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The round silver disk of a cold sun
Last Line: On the cold white keyboard of a winter's day.
Subject(s): Shadows; Snow; Sun; Winter


THE PLAINT HUMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Season of snows, and season of
Last Line: And much too much of the other.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Brothers; Flowers; Grief; Seasons; Snow; Half-brothers; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PLANTING, by MARGARET LEE ASHLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have planted a tree
Last Line: I have planted a tree.
Subject(s): Plants; Prayer; Snow; Trees; Planting; Planters


THE POWERFUL, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When baffled days seem each to drag a chain
Last Line: Shy mistletoe, plucked by valhalla's gate?
Subject(s): Frost; Glass & Glassblowers; Snow; Glaziers


THE SABBATH OF THE SNOW, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The falling snow has drawn the heavens near
Last Line: Of holy peace for that abhorrent hour.
Subject(s): Snow


THE SNOW, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It sifts from leaden sieves
Last Line: Denying they have been.
Subject(s): Snow


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 DONALD HALL            Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow is in the oak
Subject(s): 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 SNOW, by ALFRED DE VIGNY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When barren boughs above us wave
Last Line: And snow lies deep, and earth lies frore.
Subject(s): Past; Snow


THE SNOW FAIRY, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Throughout the afternoon I watched them there,
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Snow


THE SNOW IS DEEP ON THE GROUND, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Snow; Love


THE SNOW ON SADDLE MOUNTAIN, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The only thing that can be relied on
Subject(s): Mountains; Snow; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE SNOW PARTY, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bash??, coming
Variant Title(s): The Snow Party; For Louis Asekoff
Subject(s): Snow


THE SNOW STORM, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature unfettered by man's civic need
Last Line: Great god! Is this the world for which christ bled?
Subject(s): Class Struggle; Injustice; Snow


THE SNOW WASTE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw one sitting mid a waste of snow
Last Line: The plain of snow and the unchanging sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Snow


THE SNOW-MESSENGERS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pine-trees lift their dark bewildered eyes
Last Line: Your flakes to me seem fiushed with fairy fire!
Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Snow; Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)


THE SNOW-SHOWER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stand here by my side and turn, I pray
Last Line: At rest in the dark and silent lake.
Subject(s): Nature; Snow; Winter


THE SNOW-STORM, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Announced by all the trumpets 0f the sky, / arrives the snow
Last Line: The frolic architecture of the snow.
Variant Title(s): The Snowstorm
Subject(s): Nature; Snow; Storms; Wind


THE SNOW-STORM, by AGNES ETHELWYN WETHERALD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The great soft downy snow-storm like a cloak
Last Line: To give a radiant answer to the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wetherald, Ethelwyn
Subject(s): Nature; Snow


THE SNOWBALL, by THOMAS STANLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Doris, I that could repel
Last Line: That by snow were set on fire.
Subject(s): Snow


THE SNOWBOUND CITY, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I believe in this stalled magnificence
Subject(s): Snow


THE SNOWDROP, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many, many welcomes
Last Line: February fair-maid!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Snow


THE SNOWDROP (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold, from winter's sleeping side
Last Line: As fair as eden's flower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Snow


THE SNOWDROP (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A nun of winter's sisterhood
Last Line: And lead the way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Damien, Father (1840-1889); Snow


THE SNOWFALL IS SO SILENT, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De
Subject(s): Snow


THE SNOWFLAKE (2), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See, now, this filigree: 'tis snow
Last Line: And earth shut in his grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Snow


THE SNOWFLAKE'S FAREWELL, by M. EUGENIA POTTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A snowflake sailed through the frosty air
Last Line: For it thought that the summer was here.
Subject(s): Snow


THE SNOWFLAKES, by J. A. HARM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Soft, starry, crystal snow-flakes
Last Line: All the earth on christmas day.
Subject(s): Christmas; Snow; Winter; Nativity, The


THE SNOWING OF THE PINES', by THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Softer than silence, stiller than still air
Last Line: The snow-flakes drop as lightly -- snows on snows.
Subject(s): Autumn; Holidays; Nature; Pine Trees; Seasons; Snow; Trees; Fall


THE STORM, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I lie in bed and hear the storm cavorting on
Last Line: Weather misbehaves, a whoop-la he can raise.
Subject(s): Snow; Storms; Winter


THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 9, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After an hour the mild
Subject(s): Footprints; Snow; Solitude; Loneliness


THE TIMBER WOLVES, by IVAN SWIFT    Poem Text                    
First Line: We are the slaves of the timber land
Last Line: The boss of care is the king of the world!
Subject(s): Frost; Slavery; Snow; Wilderness; Wolves; Serfs


THE TWINS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Are you lost
Last Line: When I come with my sister, the snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Frost; Snow


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 WEAVER OF SNOW, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In polar noons when the moonshine glimmers
Last Line: The weaver of snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dreams; Fairies; Girls; Laughter; Snow; Weavers And Weaving; Nightmares; Elves


THE WHITENESS, by HILDA MORLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep, deep under white now I longed to be
Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs.
Subject(s): Snow; City & Town Life


THE WIND OF A DREAM, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would like to touch this snow with the wind of a dream
Last Line: And hear you singing again by a starlit wall
Subject(s): Snow


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


THEIR DIVORCE & THE REMAINING LANDSCAPE, by KATE NORTHROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Suddenly it was silent--the snow
Last Line: When we walk in the continuing snow.
Subject(s): Divorce; Family Life; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Snow


THESE HEADLIGHTS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The seine of falling snow
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving And Drivers; Nature; Snow


THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 9, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After an hour the mild
Last Line: Line of footprints
Subject(s): Footprints; Snow; Solitude


THIRD SNOWFALL, by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Another storm, another blizzard
Subject(s): Snow


THIS MORNING, by JANE KENYON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The barn bears the weight
Last Line: Tremble as it passes
Subject(s): Farm Life; Snow; Agriculture; Farmers


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


THREE PANELS: A GIFT, by MARK IRWIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He walked up to the winter and then into it
Subject(s): Snow


THREE WOOD SONGS: 1. TO A DOGWOOD IN SUMMER, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They tell me that essential you
Last Line: Your moonlight and your snow.
Subject(s): Dogwood; Snow; Summer; Trees


TIRED OF SNOW, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The world is tired of snow
Last Line: We want to welcome spring!
Subject(s): March (month); Snow; Winter


TO A SNOWFLAKE, by FRANCIS THOMPSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What heart could have thought you?
Last Line: And his graver of frost.'
Subject(s): Religion; Snow; Theology


TO A WREATH OF SNOW, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O transient voyager of heaven!
Last Line: And will sustain when thou art gone
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Snow


TO MY DAUGHTER OLIVE, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow lies on the lonely hearth
Last Line: Together, - you and I
Subject(s): Daughters; Kisses; Singing And Singers; Snow


TOBOGGAN, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down from the hills and over the snow
Last Line: Toboggan! Toboggan! Toboggan!
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Snow


TREES IN WINTER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through a dumb-shifting veil of snow
Last Line: Into a tranced immensity.
Subject(s): Snow; Trees; Winter


TRISTIA: WINTER AT TOMI, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow lies deep: nor sun nor melting shower
Last Line: And horses' hoofs ring loud where once their oarsmen plied.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Death; Snow; Storms; Winter; Dead, The


TRUE BELIEVER, by ALVIN DAVID GREENBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I want to think that snowfall has no other meanings, that
Last Line: Take that away, bud, and there's only shit to shovel
Subject(s): Snow


TRUST SNOW TO KEEP IT A SECRET, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Snow


TWILIT SNOW, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Snow


TWILIT SNOW, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Twilit snow
Subject(s): Death; Snow; Suicide


UNCLE MART'S POEM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! The old snow-man
Last Line: That noey bixler made!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Snow


UNDER THE SNOWS, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thousands of things do the soft snows cover
Last Line: Will there ever a spring-tide be for the heart?
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Snow; Winter; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


UNIQUE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: His presence makes the spring to blush
Last Line: And flings the winter's fleece of snow
Subject(s): Snow


UNSEASONABLE SNOWS, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves have not yet gone; then why do ye come
Last Line: While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Snow; Fall


UNTITLED, by FRANK MARTINUS ARION    Poem Source                    
First Line: I fell in deep snow %if you cannot save me
Last Line: Then lie down beside me %help me weep
Subject(s): Language; Love - Cultural Differences; Snow


UNTITLED, by GEOFFREY+(1) O'BRIEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The snow was the future perfect of snow
Last Line: As I will have been, seized from voice like ice
Subject(s): Future; Perfection; Snow; Winter


UPON A GREAT SHOWER OF SNOW THAT FELL ON MAY-DAY, 1654, by THOMAS WASHBOURNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: You that are weather-wise and pretend to know
Last Line: A general pardon for all faults are passed
Subject(s): Snow


VELVET SHOES, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us walk in the white snow
Last Line: We shall walk in the snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Shoes; Silence; Snow; Walking; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


WALKING WITH FATHER IN COLORADO, by ROBERT KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everywhere I followed him back in time
Last Line: I knelt and drank from the shining in my hands
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Snow; Travel; Winter


WALTZ, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the night-snow, the floating snow
Subject(s): Relationships; Snow; Dancing & Dancers


WATCHING THE FEEDER, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow has been falling, and the purple finches
Last Line: For existence itself
Subject(s): Snow; Birds; Life


WATER LACE AND WHITE EYES, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the mist rising
Last Line: In the northern dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Bones; Frost; Ice; North, The; Snow


WEATHERMAN TELLS US, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To know where %they're going
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Snow; Weather


WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apple blossom and
Last Line: And the late wet snow of spring
Subject(s): Seasons; Snow; Spring; Squirrels


WHEN DAYS ARE CRISP AND BRIGHT, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: To have a white, white world!
Subject(s): Snow; Play


WHILE THEY BURN, by JOSE FONTINHAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The moment to speak of snow has arrived, while the utensils
Last Line: And at times the furtive call of waters
Subject(s): Snow; Winter


WHITE AS SNOW, by KATHERINE HANSEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is no evil in the time to be
Last Line: For on the white our footprints oft are seen.
Subject(s): Snow


WHITE FIELDS, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the winter time we go
Last Line: Where it is the children go.
Subject(s): Snow; Winter


WHITE GRASS, by ADA BAZZACCHINI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nothing here... / nothing but the first snow falling
Last Line: Into the evening quiet of the white grass.
Subject(s): Snow


WHITE SNOW, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Angels angels in the sky / one's dressed as an officer
Last Line: Darling girl in my arms' embrace
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Snow


WHITE SNOW, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Angels angels in the sky
Last Line: Sweetheart to put my arms around
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Snow


WHITE SWORD, by WINIFRED ADAMS BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, silence your levity
Last Line: In drifting snows!
Subject(s): Death; Laughter; Snow; Dead, The


WHITENESS, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: What thing than the lily unstained is more white?
Last Line: Till it rests on your shoulders, a marvel to see!
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Snow; Winter


WHY DOES IT SNOW?, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why does it snow? Why does it snow
Last Line: With their riddle cum dinky dee
Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E.
Subject(s): Snow


WHY IS THE COLOR OF SNOW?, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let's ask a poet with no way of knowing.
Subject(s): Snow; Loneliness; Immortality


WIND CHILL, by MARTHA COLLINS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow blowing across the road
Last Line: Of snow blowing like god across the road
Subject(s): Snow


WIND CHILL, by MARTHA COLLINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow blowing across the road
Last Line: Of the organs, the chords, the rush %of snow blowing, like god across the road
Subject(s): Snow


WINTER, by MARY BALDWIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wind blows high, the wind blows low
Last Line: All silent, white.
Subject(s): Frost; Hunger; Snow; Wind; Winter


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 MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: A glittering mantle of spotless white
Last Line: And the warm, sweet spring-tide into the heart.
Subject(s): Seasons; Snow; Winter


WINTER, by ANNE HINCHMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Have you seen a blue jay flash through a snowstorm?
Last Line: And I could see nothing but snow.
Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Snow; Winter; Woods


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 BUTTERFLIES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The snowflakes flutter all around
Last Line: To visit boys and girls they love.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Children; Insects; Snow; Childhood; Bugs


WINTER DAY, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray misty world of snow
Last Line: Gem-like on any winter-sacred bough.
Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne
Subject(s): Snow; Winter


WINTER DUSK, by ANDRE-FERDINAND HEROLD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the earth the snow is falling
Last Line: And the snow and the twilight are falling.
Subject(s): Dusk; Snow; Winter


WINTER OAKS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, winter oaks, you give me courage
Last Line: Spring's miracle so well?
Subject(s): Oak Trees; Snow; Winter


WINTER PICTURES, by LEO J. RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little fairy snow-flakes
Last Line: Of a fairy town.
Subject(s): Snow; Winter


WINTER PIECE, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Delicate ermine tracks
Last Line: And watches their eyes through chinks in the ice
Subject(s): Ice; Snow; Winter


WINTER SCENE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where have the colors all gone to
Last Line: And black, like the black and white day
Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Snow; Winter


WINTER TWILIGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little while ago and you might see
Last Line: Moves nightward, merges into mystery.
Subject(s): Evening; Snow; Trees; Winter; Sunset; Twilight


WINTER'S SNOW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Soft clinging robe of purest white
Last Line: Beneath the sun of day.
Subject(s): Seasons; Silence; Snow; White (color); Winter


WINTER'S SNOW, by MRS. R. A. MEDLAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: The snow lies soft upon the lea
Last Line: And that good and bitter we all must take
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Blessings; Clouds; Snow


WINTER'S TALE, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: She is stranded on a ladder
Last Line: Exit: pursued by a bear
Subject(s): Snow; Winter


WINTER: 2. SNOW-STORM, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How gloom the clouds! Quite stifled is the ray
Last Line: Of thee, the dread avatar is reveal'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Snow; Winter


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


WRITTEN IN SNOW TO BE SHOWN TO MY YOUNGER BROTHER AND SISTER, by ZHANG YINYUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Masses of clouds darken the wind and the fog
Last Line: Wild geese align their wings, migrating south
Subject(s): Snow


YESTERDAY THE SCHOOL WAS RED, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: We'll make a snow king in the yard and have the greatest fun
Subject(s): Schools; Snow


YOU'RE TAKING THE PIECE OF IRON, RIGHT?, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Iron is a bit of snow. You are a bit of white know how not to go too far
Subject(s): Snow