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• “When the frost is on the punkin”

  When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder ’s in the shock,
  And you hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin’ turkey-cock,
  And the clackin’ of the guineys, and the cluckin’ of the hens, …

  James Whitcomb Riley

• Autumn: A Dirge

  The Warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing,
  The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying,
  And the year …

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

• “When icicles hang by the wall”

  From “Love’s Labor ’s Lost,” Act V. Sc. 2.
  WHEN icicles hang by the wall,
  And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, …

  William Shakespeare

• Snow-Flakes

  Out of the bosom of the Air,
  Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
  Over the woodlands brown and bare, …

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• December

  When the feud of hot and cold
  Leaves the autumn woodlands bare;
  When the year is getting old, …

  Joel Benton

• The Snow-Shower

  Stand here by my side and turn, I pray,
  On the lake below thy gentle eyes;
  The clouds hang over it, heavy and gray, …

  William Cullen Bryant

• A Snow-Storm

  Scene in a Vermont Winter
  ’T IS a fearful night in the winter time,
  As cold as it ever can be; …

  Charles Gamage Eastman

• Winter Scenes

  From “The Seasons: Winter”
  THE KEENER tempests rise; and fuming dun
  From all the livid east, or piercing north, …

  James Thomson

• Winter Song

  From the German by Charles Timothy Brooks
  SUMMER joys are o’er;
  Flowerets bloom no more, …

  Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty

• Winter Morning

  From “The Winter Morning Walk:” “The Task,” Bk. V.
  ’T IS the morning, and the sun with ruddy orb
  Ascending fires the horizon; while the clouds, …

  William Cowper

• Sleigh Song

  Jingle, jingle, clear the way,
  ’T is the merry, merry sleigh!
  As it swiftly scuds along. …

  G. W. Pettee

• Our Skater Belle

  Along the frozen lake she comes
  In linking crescents, light and fleet;
  The ice-imprisoned Undine hums …

  Anonymous

• “O winter! wilt thou never, never go?”

  O Winter! wilt thou never, never go?
  O summer! but I weary for thy coming,
  Longing once more to hear the Luggie flow, …

  David Gray

• A Song of Seasons

  Sing a song of Spring-time!
  Catkins by the brook,
  Adders-tongues uncounted, …

  Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald

• The Valley Brook

  Fresh from the fountains of the wood
  A rivulet of the valley came,
  And glided on for many a rood, …

  John Howard Bryant

• Song of the Brook

  From “The Brook: an Idyl”
  I COME from haunts of coot and hern:
  I make a sudden sally …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• The Shaded Water

  When that my mood is sad, and in the noise
  And bustle of the crowd I feel rebuke,
  I turn my footsteps from its hollow joys …

  William Gilmore Simms

• The Birch Stream

  At noon, within the dusty town,
  Where the wild river rushes down,
  And thunders hoarsely all day long, …

  Anna Boynton Averill

• Song of the River

  Clear and cool, clear and cool,
  By laughing shallow and dreaming pool;
  Cool and clear, cool and clear, …

  Charles Kingsley

• Afton Water

  Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes;
  Flow gently, I ’ll sing thee a song in thy praise;
  My Mary ’s asleep by thy murmuring stream, …

  Robert Burns

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