Our anthology of winter poems begins with a few classics:
- William Shakespeare,
“Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind” from As You Like It (1600)
- William Shakespeare,
Sonnet 97 - “How like a winter hath my absence been” (1609)
- Thomas Campion,
“Now Winter Nights Enlarge” (1617)
- Robert Burns,
“Winter: A Dirge” (1781)
- William Blake,
“To Winter” (1783)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
“Frost at Midnight” (1798)
- John Keats,
“In drear-nighted December” (1829)
- Charlotte Brontë,
“Winter Stores” (1846)
- Walt Whitman,
“To a Locomotive in Winter” (1882)
- Robert Louis Stevenson,
“Winter-Time” (1885)
- George Meredith,
“Winter Heavens” (1888)
- Emily Dickinson,
“There’s a certain Slant of light” (#258)
- Emily Dickinson,
“It sifts from Leaden Sieves” (#311)
- Robert Bridges,
“London Snow” (1890)
- Thomas Hardy,
“Winter in Durnover Field” (1901)
- William Butler Yeats,
“The Cold Heaven” (1916)
- Gerard Manley Hopkins,
“The Times Are Nightfall” (1918)
- Robert Frost,
“An Old Man’s Winter Night” (1920)
- Wallace Stevens,
“The Snowman” (1921)
- Robert Frost,
“Dust of Snow” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (1923)
To which we’ve added a selection of the poems on winter themes we’ve received from contemporary poets:
- Salvatore Buttaci, “From Cold Unblinking Eyes”
- Denis Dunn, “Winter in Maine on Rte 113” and “Silent Solstice (Winter Becomes Maine)”
- Jim Finnegan, “Flightless Bird”
- Jesse Glass, “The Giant in the Dirty Coat”
- Dorothea Grossman, Untitled winter poem
- Ruth Hill, “Land of Long Shadows”
- Joel Lewis, “Making a Meal Out of It”
- Charles Mariano, “This Winter”
- Whitman McGowan, “It Was So Cold”
- Justine Nicholas, “Palais d’Hiver”
- Barbara Novack, “Winter: 10 degrees”
- Debbie Ouellet, “North Wind”
- Joseph Pacheco, “Cold Winter Morn in Florida”
- Jack Peachum, “The Migrant”
- Barbara Reiher-Meyers, “Blizzard” and “Sweet and Bitter”
- Todd-Earl Rhodes, Untitled poem
- Robert Savino, “Shortcut Through the Storm”
- Jackie Sheeler, “Underground Xmas”
- Lisa Shields, “Reaching for White” and “Climate Change”
- Aldo Tambellini, “October 19, 1990”
- Joyce Wakefield, “Winter Conversation”
Enjoy these poems of the season!
