Some Winter Poems

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It's that time of year again, so we're bringing our old collection of poems about winter out of mothballs. The texts are from the wonderful web site run by the Poetry Foundation. It was established by Poetry magazine, the famous little magazine from the early 20th century that first published poets like William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, H.D., T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, and Ezra Pound. In 2007, heiress Ruth Lily made the astonishing donation of $100 million to Poetry, and they have been putting that to public use, creating the best site for poetry on the internet. See it for encyclopedia-type articles on famous poets, old poets, classic poets, avant-garde poets, traditional poets, and emerging poets, and a steady stream of topical news and feature articles, and lots of poetry, all free and open to the public.

Snow Day by Billy Collins

The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens

Dust of Snow by Robert Frost

Lines: The Cold Earth Slept Below by Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Winter Night by Robert Burns

Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden

Year's End by Richard Wilbur

The Snow is Deep on the Ground by Kenneth Patchen

Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams

November Cotton Flower by Jean Toomer

The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

Monody by Herman Melville [to Nathaniel Hawthorne]