Winter cometh
A metaphor to grab you, as the light and warmth of summer beats a retreat and winter advances, affront of...
Nature like an athlete
How wonderful to portray nature beefing herself up to wrestle with winter, stripping off all superfluity such as leaves, the...
Hoar-rimed trees
A crisp and unusual description of a Russian winter day in its chill beauty.
'White winter had set...
Of wood and winter
Filling up the reservoirs with summer warmth, to keep the 'blood-sullen winter' at bay. But a 'frost-stiffened wood' can be...
That grand old poem called Winter
To celebrate the winter solstice, a few crisp quotations. I loved Thoreau's description of winter as an epic in blank...
Death-white realms
A small, lonely, oppressed orphan reading A History of British Birds in search of solace and stimulus and finding instead bleak...
Poplars in November
Yes, poplars look like giant feathers poked in the ground, here bedraggled by the onset of winter.
'In November the...
Need some negus?
A hot drink of port, sugar, lemon, and spice, named after a Colonel Francis Negus (d. 1732), who invented it. ...
A poet’s sister or a sister poet?
In Dorothy Wordsworth's journals, you sense the extent to which she supported her brother's writing. Some things she records become...
Sign of the clime
A ready way to reckon with the weather, according to an old boy Thoreau knew. Can't really go wrong with...
As silent as … (III)
Blackbirds, as anyone who has been woken by their loud, hearty and varied song early on a summer's day, knows...
Frost-riven rubble
Rubble bespeaks a building site in a busy, messy, or war-torn city. The idea of its being splintered by frost...
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