poem Archives - Christmas Magazine

A Way to a Happy New Year

Robert Brewster Beattie (1875-1946) To leave the old with a burst of song; To recall the right and forgive the

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) How strange to greet, this frosty morn, In graceful counterfeit of flower, These children of the

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields,Seems nowhere to

William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) Lone Flower, hemmed in with snows and white as they But hardier far, once