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Snow

Archibald Lampman (1861-1899) White are the far-off plains, and white The fading forests grow; The wind dies out along the

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Every branch big with it, Bent every twig with it; Every fork like a white web-foot; Every

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field

Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) The white snow falls on hill and dale, The snow falls white by square and street, Falls

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

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) The Snow that never drifts — The transient, fragrant snow That comes a single time a Year

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

Dafydd ap Gwilym Across North Wales The snowflakes wander, A swarm of white bees. Over the woods A cold

John Clare (1793-1864) English peasant poet of the Romantic school The winter comes; I walk alone, I want no