Potential Titles: Winter
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somethingdarkerWinter sunshine cheered the bitter sky - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"
Last winter's kisses, like salt on black ice - Kim Addonizio "Wine Tasting"
Followed by a few more days of winter - Etel Adnan "Surge"
A pearl dissolves into winter's mood - Zaina Alsous "Translator's Essay"
You were every streetlamp that winter - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"
When she woke from winter's dream - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "A Little Goldenhead"
When the southwind challenged winter - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Veterans"
Winter casts its shade before it - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.X--Autumn, in its Second Aspect"
Light as winter sunshine - Maya Angelou "To Beat the Child Was Bad Enough"
Winter is a place I visit - Cameron Awkward-Rich "What Returns"
What's ghostlier than gray morning winter light? - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"
The cleansing that closes winter - Mary Jo Bang "Reign of Unreason"
Waiting for winter to leave me alone - Mary Jo Bang "When I Was an Inanimate Object"
Bestows her summer ices and her winter rose - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
A Ferris Wheel in winter - Lou Barrett "Coney Island Afternoon"
winter the future's root - Elizabeth Bartlett "journey to jerusalem"
A winter still unprepared for spring - Elizabeth Bartlett "Mental Hoeing"
Where winter had not heard of spring - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Mistake"
but winter was in our hearts - Elizabeth Bartlett "summer and winter"
the winter fears destroyed the summer weather - Elizabeth Bartlett "summer and winter"
should my winter come at last - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"
Winter holds his solitary sway - Cora C. Bass "'Mid Eternal Snow"
Winter's sleep on gauzy wing - Cora C. Bass "Spring"
Winter with his weary snows - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited
What still grows in winter - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Evergreen"
Not a thought of winter's rent - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
High above your winter face - Robert Bly "A Dream of the Blacksmith's Room"
Under winter's blanket renunciation - Jaswinder Bolina "Tidal"
My heart has known its winter and carried gall - Arna Bontemps "My Heart Has Known Its Winter"
A blighted winter bough where love and music used to be - Arna Bontemps "A Tree Design"
The wintering den of stars - Catherine Bowman "Heart"
Winter chased us down the coast - Elizabeth Bradfield "Pursuit"
My winter alphabet - Shannon Bramer "A Question for Choying"
on a winter evening eyes see furthest - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]
The long winter descending on your soul - William Brewer "Oxy 40"
As winter spills its math - William Brewer "Sundowning"
Thoughtful for Winter's future sorrow - Charlotte Bronte "Winter Stores"
Winter sheds its grief in snow - Emily Bronte "Sympathy"
Silent sign of winter skies - Emily Bronte "To a Wreath of Snow"
Of suns that know no winter days - Emily Bronte "To Imagination"
Aware there is winter to heed - Gwendolyn Brooks "A Sunset of the City"
And wait all winter to eat - Jericho Brown "Cain"
Along the edge of winter - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Recovery"
Tears for the passing of winter - Sue Budin "Little Things"
Winter wrapped them in a winding sheet - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
The spent radiance of the winter sun - Joseph Campbell "The Old Woman"
Felt the winter in my veins - W. Wilfred Campbell "How One Winter Came"
Lands of winter and death - W. Wilfred Campbell "To the Ottawa"
Scarred by a thousand winters - Bliss Carman "A Mountain Gateway"
Bugle down the wintry verge of time - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"
Winter had thrown his icy chain - "The Cascade"
Sought the wood in winter - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
Or gather marigolds in winter rain - Willa Cather "Sleep, Minstrel, Sleep"
The winter wood and its great absorbent heart - Judith Chalmer "Pocket"
The day in winter's loaded garment - John Clare "Winter Walk"
into the winter of a cold and mortal body - Lucille Clifton "1994"
Before biting winter comes - Hilda Conkling "Bluebird"
Leave us to our winter and our rue - Susan Coolidge "My White Chrysanthemum"
Scatter fragrance after winter's gloom - E. Coungeau "If I Might Choose"
Strong to bear times' wintry weather - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
The silent chapel of a pine forest in winter - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"
In the winter hill's of summer - Cynthia Cruz "Riding"
Comes to a winter of sure defeat - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
And winter's earliest whisper roams - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
With winter in my heart - Olive Custance "The Vision"
Where climbs the grey winter - Olive Tilford Dargan "Old Fairingdown"
A winter twilight in love's garden - Julián del Casal "Vas Doloris" transl. by William George Williams
Melting the ghosts of Winter - Irving Sidney Dix "An Idyll of the Hills part 1: March"
A winter's worth of melting snow - Chris Dombrowski "Coda"
Learned the mind of winter - Chris Dombrowski "Like a December apiary, the mind tapers"
Winter fills summer's buckets - Chris Dombrowski "Runt Puppies in the Shade under the Porch"
No winter shall abate the spring's increase - John Donne "Love's Growth"
On the wintery streets of this imagination - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"
Fierce winter's chronicle - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel V: On the Sea-Cliff"
Fierce fights with wintry gales - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "I Watch the Ships"
Cold as the winter moon that lies - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs"
Silver arrows of a wintry noon - Maurice Francis Egan "Vigil of the Immaculate Conception"
Soon as the snows of winter yield - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"
For winter's sharp profile - Elaine Equi "The Sensuous Reader"
A flock buried in the blindness of winter - Joseph Fasano "Mahler in New York"
Changing is the threshold into winter - Joseph Fasano "Testimony"
Half in winter, half in wool - Joseph Fasano "Testimony"
Dark as a wintering hive - RK Fauth "Playing with the Bees"
As autumn dies to bring winter back - Annie Finch "Samhain"
Cover our eyes with the edge of winter sky - Annie Finch "Winter Solstice Chant"
When winter's cold brought frost and snow - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"
Loudly wailed the winter wind - "The Fisherman's Keen, or the Lamentation of O'Donoghue of Affadown ('Roaring Water'), in the west of Co. Cork, for his three sons and his son-in-law, who were drowned" transl. by Anonymous
Many bitter winters of defeat - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"
Lost as a white doe in winter - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen e"
Breaking the winter of my room - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Other Side"
Through the edge of winter - Julie Fogliano "Spring, March 20"
On this side of winter - Julie Fogliano "Fall, September 25"
Chips of winter river thawed - Carolyn Forche "Mientras Dure Vida, Sobre el Tiempo"
The small lights of winter campfires - Katie Ford "All I Ever Wanted"
The eternal winter of nightmares - Vievee Francis "Pokagon Accepts Colonel Taylor's Invitation: Fort Dearborn, 1833"
To dream winter away - Tess Gallagher "Ring"
Quiet soulless winter - brian g. gilmore "mardi gras in east lansing"
The sharp stars of the winter night - Louis Golding "I Dream'd I Died"
The harsh beard of winter seared - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
The winter that welcomes no guests - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Sons"
Who weaves the winter wool and summer flax - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Before winter knows us - Rae Gouirand "Fig Suite"
Which blossoms in the winter - Rae Gouirand "Quince Suite"
But winter scorched by heaven's high contempt - Linda Gregerson "The Turning"
The little knoll where we mark its winter twin - Lucy Griffith "Attention"
Lost a winter in stubborn memory - Joy Harjo "Grace"
A tremor of the winter - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "The Crocuses"
Love's winter ne'er returns to spring - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XVI"
Like a winter tree - Anne Hebert "Bread Is Born"
Crouch before the wintry blast - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"
Keen as the song of the winter stars - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"
Where so many lies remain lost to winter - Gordon Henry "It Was Snowing on the Monuments"
Your cells by careful winter nursed - Mary E. Hewitt "Green Spots in the City" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Every year hath its winter - Ella Higginson "When the Birds Go North Again"
That shines unleafed in winter rain - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"
All the winter bird dare try - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Winter with the Gulf Stream"
Grown on the winter's edge - Nora Hopper "April in Ireland"
The dreary winter's over - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
The winter's own release - Helen Hunt Jackson "January"
To smell the winter leaves - Allison Eir Jenks "Refugee"
Hope for better winters - Patricia Spears Jones "Jim"
Winter stars stitched into puddles - Saeed Jones "The Blue Dress"
In winter's spider-eyed light - Judy Jordan "Prologue"
The first winter after their exodus - Fady Joudah "Things You've Never Seen"
The geometry of winter - Rodger Kamenetz "The Living Hive"
Hung above the brink of winter - Holly Karapetkova "Holiday"
Every shot-through winter scene - Janet Kauffman "Every Shot-Through"
The thick bones of winter - Donika Kelly "Commandments"
Climb the stalk of early winter - Donika Kelly "Winter Poem"
How winter razes the shoals of heaven - Adele Kenny "Survivor"
The soundlessness of winter - Jane Kenyon "Spring Changes"
Dread the Winter's threatenings - Joyce Kilmer "The Ballade of Butterflies"
Jovial wind of winter - Charles Kingsley "Ode to the Northeast Wind"
New to these winters - Galway Kinnell "The Road Between Here and There"
The whistle of a winter wind - Archibald Lampman "Chione"
Songs that winter may not tame - Archibald Lampman "God-Speed to the Snow"
Winter with wind and iron - Archibald Lampman "Sapphics"
Spicing up my winter quarantine - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"
Draws down the winter's frown - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
Quiet winter grinding like teeth set in sleep - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"
Winter will send me crocuses - R.B. Lemberg "The Rotten Leaf Cantata"
Gray starlings on the winter lawn - Philip Levine "For the Country: The Dream"
Will forget winter in my heart - Amy Levy "The Old Poet"
Splendid as the winter moon - Li T'ai-Po "Written in the Character of a Beautiful Woman Grieving Before Her Mirror" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
As winter takes my last dawn - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"
No winter in thy year - John Logan "Ode to the Cuckoo"
A field of spears, a lake of pikes, a sky of hawks, a hundred winters - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"
The snow of another winter, the glow of a new sunrise - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "oak"
Escaped from winter's keeping - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Miracle"
The wraith of winter, grown so pale - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Miracle"
Disturb the dream of winter - Edwin Markham "The Last Furrow"
His winter's cell of silver white - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"
In Winter's sullen dearth - Theodore Maynard "The English Spring"
Lays aside her tattered winter weeds - Theodore Maynard "Spring, 1916"
Blood of winter, color of rye - E.L. Mayo "Spring Is Coming"
Last winter's salt stains - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Whistling on under the Winter sky - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
But it is winter with your love - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Alms"
I know a winter when it comes - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Alms"
When the thawed winter splashes - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"
Vespers freeze early winter's backyard - Claire Millikin "Elegy for Sage Smith"
There will be no winter left - Claire Millikin "The Insect Doll"
An apatite translucency of winter sky - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"
The scent of pure winter - Vilyam Molut "Gift of the Sky" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
She shears the web of winter - N. Scott Momaday "The Snow Mare"
And drop into the frosty arms of Winter - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
A succession of winter voices - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Winter in their Heart - Vi Khi Nao "Bird Poem"
The violin of suffocated winter - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti
With masks bitten by winter - Pablo Neruda "The Destroyed Street" translated by Donald D Walsh
The raucous needle of winter - Pablo Neruda "The Drowned Woman of the Sky" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Bitten out by the teeth of winter - Pablo Neruda "Horses" transl. by Alastair Reid
Winter with its gloomy merchandise - Pablo Neruda "The Human Condition" transl. by Alastair Reid
A new winter more naked and more alone - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Twisted chairs waiting for winter - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
With wintry hand seeks our hearts - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh
More cutting than winter's voice - Pablo Neruda "Solar Ode to the Army of the People" translated by Richard Schaaf
Next to the water of winter - Pablo Neruda "The Son" transl. by Donald D. Walsh
That I divide with my winter eyes - Pablo Neruda "Sonata and Destruction" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The territories and distances of winter - Pablo Neruda "The Stones and the Birds" transl. by Dennis Maloney
The draughts of winter's pain - Francis Neilson "Let Us Make a Garden"
A flower your winter gardens hold - E. Nesbit "Death"
Trod dead leaves in chill and wintry ways - E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke "[Not Summer's crown of scent]"
That rocks thy reeds the winter long - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"
The sunshine of her face in winter - Meredith Nicholson "My Lady of the Golden Heart"
Splitting the hive of winter - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"
Not now your winter thoughts - Fernando Pessoa "Epithalamium"
The warlocks of winter are dead - Kiki Petrosino "Witch Wife"
Winter looking at May - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps "Released"
Featureless winter of grief - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"
For the warmth of winter gold - Andrea Potos "Crocheting in December"
Fields plowed and turned to winter - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"
While howls the wintry wind - Alexander Pushkin "[I've overlived aspirings]" transl. by John Pollen
Winter keeps us lucky - Khadijah Queen "Declination"
Exposed to winter's angry hand - Paige Quinones "Erosion"
In spite of the winter's woe - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Spring Hopes: Song"
Winter waiting for a meadow - Charles Rafferty "Mal Evans Counting"
When wintry hordes complain - Herbert Randall "The White Pine"
In the wood the furious winter blowing - John Crowe Ransom "Winter Remembered"
Sown by long winter women - Molly Raynor "A Dressed Up Potato Is Still a Potato (Yiddish Proverb)"
The cleft tree-trunk and the wintering ants - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
A thousand winters in my bones - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VII: Thaddeus the Unborn 1: The Call"
The coming edge of the winter world - Alberto Rios "December Morning in the Desert"
The dead hand of Winter is knocking at the door - Lloyd Roberts "The Wind Tongues"
From the fiords of the sunless winter - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
Foundering against the Russian winter - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"
Before the phantom of Pale Winter died - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
Winter weaving from flakes a robe - Rumi "I Saw the Winter Weaving" transl. by Rev. Professor Hastie
As winter crumples in thunder - Reg Saner "The Red Poppy"
The winter of Puritan snows - George Santayana "Fair Harvard"
To revenge themselves on winter's north wind cold - Friedrich Schiller "Thoughts on the 1st October, 1781"
Cargo in winter's hold - Ann K. Schwader "Cave Bear Dreams"
By fading firelight in the caves of winter - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"
Leaking heat into winter's infinity - Ann K. Schwader "Towers of Light"
But she shall bloom in winter snow - Sir Walter Scott "A Weary Lot Is Thine"
No enemy but winter and rough weather - Shakespeare "As You Like It: Under the Greenwood Tree"
Though they were with winter meet - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"
Let not winter's ragged hand deface - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VI"
Rising in glory from their winter graves - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Floral Resurrection" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Slows to its winter rhythm - Joyce Sidman "Into the Mud"
Drives Winter from his path of strife - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"
winter with its obsessed wind - Jake Skeets "Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa"
Twelve fingers stretching for the winter sky - Emily Smith "Such Monstrous Births"
With tones like winter's frozen wind - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Reconciliation"
The river's lifeline joins itself to winter - Richard Solomon "Ice in Formation"
Bleak winter in their frosty eyes - Leonora Speyer "Sand-Pipings: For a Spring Day"
Filled with a wild winter emptiness - Elizabeth Spires "Nightgown"
Where the witch of winter walked - Ezra Hurlburt Stafford "Chinook"
The winter comes with silver sword - James Stephens "Honoro Butler and Lord Kenmare (1720)"
Below the migrant winter stars - George Sterling "The Night Migration"
Their meek breath scenting the cowl of winter - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"
A mind of winter - Wallace Stevens "The Snow Man"
Must have a mind of winter - Wallace Stevens "The Snow Man"
The bough of summer and the winter branch - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
Spring wrings out the reedy winter chill - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"
Winter rattling at the door of June - Muriel Stuart "The Thief of Beauty"
Lost to the assault of winter snows - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 179: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Winter's moon will draw its line in naked truth - Carmen Sylva "The Shadow"
From November and the winter's stripping chill - Sonya Taaffe "Idle Thoughts While Watching a Faun"
Where my fingers cramp with winter and warmth - Sonya Taaffe "Night Boat"
And claim to love the wind and winter - Keith Taylor "Chasing the Ancient Murrelet"
At the tail end of a harsh winter - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"
Unstave the winter's tangle - Tess Taylor "Mud Season"
No less in the winter - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"
Wind and winter met together - "Tempest on the Sea" transl. by Robin Flower
Reflex of a winter moon - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Isabel"
Bent by the same wintry fever - Dylan Thomas "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower"
The skinning gales unpin the winter's robes - Dylan Thomas "Light breaks where no sun shines"
Who seeks through Winter's ruins - Edward Thomas "But These Things Also"
Something to pay Winter's debts - Edward Thomas "But These Things Also"
Which bravely wait the charge of Winter's cavalry - Henry David Thoreau "The Fall of the Leaf"
Winter is lurking within my moods - Henry David Thoreau "Nature's Child"
And thyme to scent the winter through - Katharine Tynan "The Choice"
Did you hear the edge of winter crumble? - Mark Van Doren "Spring Thunder"
Makes amends for all the wintry past - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"
One bite of winter lingers - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Wintergreen"
The finger of radiant winter weaves - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: The Glory of the Heavens" transl. by Alma Strettell
My heart in life's winter - Jones Very "The Winter Bird"
And you will shine bright as a winter star - Jamie Wasserman "Spontaneous Human Combustion"
Defies harsh winter's knell - Harvey Maitland Watts "To a Roadside Cedar"
The glittering sky of soundless winter - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Brave the passing wind of many winters - Henry Kirk White "Time"
Weep for Winter's tempest wild - Helen Hay Whitney "Sigh Not for Love"
At the winter's midnight - William Carlos Williams "Burning the Christmas Greens"
Winter is long in this climate - William Carlos Williams "March"
Of winter branches and old bones - William Carlos Williams "The Soughing Wind"
Prepared their buds against a sure winter - William Carlos Williams "Winter Trees"
In Winter's leaden air - Joseph R. Wilson "Winter's Sorrows"
Downwind through the winter weeds - Charles Wright "I've Been Sitting Here Thinking Back Over My Life..."
Winter jasmine wilts in its glass vase - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Winter silences us - Jane Yolen "Bird Watcher"
Winter has broken his windows - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today"
The winter smell of carnations - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Scavenged from the winter beach - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
Break this winter day's narcissus - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #1" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
a walk in a midwinter ochre wood - Jason Allen-Paisant "And You..."
Fettered in midwinter's crystal chains - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Pilot of the Plains"
Like the seed of midwinter - William Morris "The Pilgrims of Hope I: The Message of the March Wind"
Like overwintered wasps plotting assassinations - Matthew Wimberley "The Celebrated Colors of the Local Sunsets"
An April bud on winter-haunted trees - Walter de la Mare "Sleeping Beauty"
Alone in the winter-house - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: II"
From the peatmoss of our winter-keep - Serena Chopra "Garden Variety with Lesbians"
The winterlight consumes the field - Taylor Johnson "Art Movie"
The park is winter-plucked - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"
When winter-time grows weary - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"
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Last winter's kisses, like salt on black ice - Kim Addonizio "Wine Tasting"
Followed by a few more days of winter - Etel Adnan "Surge"
A pearl dissolves into winter's mood - Zaina Alsous "Translator's Essay"
You were every streetlamp that winter - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"
When she woke from winter's dream - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "A Little Goldenhead"
When the southwind challenged winter - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Veterans"
Winter casts its shade before it - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.X--Autumn, in its Second Aspect"
Light as winter sunshine - Maya Angelou "To Beat the Child Was Bad Enough"
Winter is a place I visit - Cameron Awkward-Rich "What Returns"
What's ghostlier than gray morning winter light? - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"
The cleansing that closes winter - Mary Jo Bang "Reign of Unreason"
Waiting for winter to leave me alone - Mary Jo Bang "When I Was an Inanimate Object"
Bestows her summer ices and her winter rose - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
A Ferris Wheel in winter - Lou Barrett "Coney Island Afternoon"
winter the future's root - Elizabeth Bartlett "journey to jerusalem"
A winter still unprepared for spring - Elizabeth Bartlett "Mental Hoeing"
Where winter had not heard of spring - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Mistake"
but winter was in our hearts - Elizabeth Bartlett "summer and winter"
the winter fears destroyed the summer weather - Elizabeth Bartlett "summer and winter"
should my winter come at last - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"
Winter holds his solitary sway - Cora C. Bass "'Mid Eternal Snow"
Winter's sleep on gauzy wing - Cora C. Bass "Spring"
Winter with his weary snows - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited
What still grows in winter - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Evergreen"
Not a thought of winter's rent - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
High above your winter face - Robert Bly "A Dream of the Blacksmith's Room"
Under winter's blanket renunciation - Jaswinder Bolina "Tidal"
My heart has known its winter and carried gall - Arna Bontemps "My Heart Has Known Its Winter"
A blighted winter bough where love and music used to be - Arna Bontemps "A Tree Design"
The wintering den of stars - Catherine Bowman "Heart"
Winter chased us down the coast - Elizabeth Bradfield "Pursuit"
My winter alphabet - Shannon Bramer "A Question for Choying"
on a winter evening eyes see furthest - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]
The long winter descending on your soul - William Brewer "Oxy 40"
As winter spills its math - William Brewer "Sundowning"
Thoughtful for Winter's future sorrow - Charlotte Bronte "Winter Stores"
Winter sheds its grief in snow - Emily Bronte "Sympathy"
Silent sign of winter skies - Emily Bronte "To a Wreath of Snow"
Of suns that know no winter days - Emily Bronte "To Imagination"
Aware there is winter to heed - Gwendolyn Brooks "A Sunset of the City"
And wait all winter to eat - Jericho Brown "Cain"
Along the edge of winter - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Recovery"
Tears for the passing of winter - Sue Budin "Little Things"
Winter wrapped them in a winding sheet - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
The spent radiance of the winter sun - Joseph Campbell "The Old Woman"
Felt the winter in my veins - W. Wilfred Campbell "How One Winter Came"
Lands of winter and death - W. Wilfred Campbell "To the Ottawa"
Scarred by a thousand winters - Bliss Carman "A Mountain Gateway"
Bugle down the wintry verge of time - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"
Winter had thrown his icy chain - "The Cascade"
Sought the wood in winter - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
Or gather marigolds in winter rain - Willa Cather "Sleep, Minstrel, Sleep"
The winter wood and its great absorbent heart - Judith Chalmer "Pocket"
The day in winter's loaded garment - John Clare "Winter Walk"
into the winter of a cold and mortal body - Lucille Clifton "1994"
Before biting winter comes - Hilda Conkling "Bluebird"
Leave us to our winter and our rue - Susan Coolidge "My White Chrysanthemum"
Scatter fragrance after winter's gloom - E. Coungeau "If I Might Choose"
Strong to bear times' wintry weather - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
The silent chapel of a pine forest in winter - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"
In the winter hill's of summer - Cynthia Cruz "Riding"
Comes to a winter of sure defeat - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
And winter's earliest whisper roams - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
With winter in my heart - Olive Custance "The Vision"
Where climbs the grey winter - Olive Tilford Dargan "Old Fairingdown"
A winter twilight in love's garden - Julián del Casal "Vas Doloris" transl. by William George Williams
Melting the ghosts of Winter - Irving Sidney Dix "An Idyll of the Hills part 1: March"
A winter's worth of melting snow - Chris Dombrowski "Coda"
Learned the mind of winter - Chris Dombrowski "Like a December apiary, the mind tapers"
Winter fills summer's buckets - Chris Dombrowski "Runt Puppies in the Shade under the Porch"
No winter shall abate the spring's increase - John Donne "Love's Growth"
On the wintery streets of this imagination - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"
Fierce winter's chronicle - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel V: On the Sea-Cliff"
Fierce fights with wintry gales - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "I Watch the Ships"
Cold as the winter moon that lies - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs"
Silver arrows of a wintry noon - Maurice Francis Egan "Vigil of the Immaculate Conception"
Soon as the snows of winter yield - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"
For winter's sharp profile - Elaine Equi "The Sensuous Reader"
A flock buried in the blindness of winter - Joseph Fasano "Mahler in New York"
Changing is the threshold into winter - Joseph Fasano "Testimony"
Half in winter, half in wool - Joseph Fasano "Testimony"
Dark as a wintering hive - RK Fauth "Playing with the Bees"
As autumn dies to bring winter back - Annie Finch "Samhain"
Cover our eyes with the edge of winter sky - Annie Finch "Winter Solstice Chant"
When winter's cold brought frost and snow - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"
Loudly wailed the winter wind - "The Fisherman's Keen, or the Lamentation of O'Donoghue of Affadown ('Roaring Water'), in the west of Co. Cork, for his three sons and his son-in-law, who were drowned" transl. by Anonymous
Many bitter winters of defeat - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"
Lost as a white doe in winter - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen e"
Breaking the winter of my room - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Other Side"
Through the edge of winter - Julie Fogliano "Spring, March 20"
On this side of winter - Julie Fogliano "Fall, September 25"
Chips of winter river thawed - Carolyn Forche "Mientras Dure Vida, Sobre el Tiempo"
The small lights of winter campfires - Katie Ford "All I Ever Wanted"
The eternal winter of nightmares - Vievee Francis "Pokagon Accepts Colonel Taylor's Invitation: Fort Dearborn, 1833"
To dream winter away - Tess Gallagher "Ring"
Quiet soulless winter - brian g. gilmore "mardi gras in east lansing"
The sharp stars of the winter night - Louis Golding "I Dream'd I Died"
The harsh beard of winter seared - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
The winter that welcomes no guests - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Sons"
Who weaves the winter wool and summer flax - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Before winter knows us - Rae Gouirand "Fig Suite"
Which blossoms in the winter - Rae Gouirand "Quince Suite"
But winter scorched by heaven's high contempt - Linda Gregerson "The Turning"
The little knoll where we mark its winter twin - Lucy Griffith "Attention"
Lost a winter in stubborn memory - Joy Harjo "Grace"
A tremor of the winter - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "The Crocuses"
Love's winter ne'er returns to spring - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XVI"
Like a winter tree - Anne Hebert "Bread Is Born"
Crouch before the wintry blast - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"
Keen as the song of the winter stars - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"
Where so many lies remain lost to winter - Gordon Henry "It Was Snowing on the Monuments"
Your cells by careful winter nursed - Mary E. Hewitt "Green Spots in the City" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Every year hath its winter - Ella Higginson "When the Birds Go North Again"
That shines unleafed in winter rain - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"
All the winter bird dare try - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Winter with the Gulf Stream"
Grown on the winter's edge - Nora Hopper "April in Ireland"
The dreary winter's over - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
The winter's own release - Helen Hunt Jackson "January"
To smell the winter leaves - Allison Eir Jenks "Refugee"
Hope for better winters - Patricia Spears Jones "Jim"
Winter stars stitched into puddles - Saeed Jones "The Blue Dress"
In winter's spider-eyed light - Judy Jordan "Prologue"
The first winter after their exodus - Fady Joudah "Things You've Never Seen"
The geometry of winter - Rodger Kamenetz "The Living Hive"
Hung above the brink of winter - Holly Karapetkova "Holiday"
Every shot-through winter scene - Janet Kauffman "Every Shot-Through"
The thick bones of winter - Donika Kelly "Commandments"
Climb the stalk of early winter - Donika Kelly "Winter Poem"
How winter razes the shoals of heaven - Adele Kenny "Survivor"
The soundlessness of winter - Jane Kenyon "Spring Changes"
Dread the Winter's threatenings - Joyce Kilmer "The Ballade of Butterflies"
Jovial wind of winter - Charles Kingsley "Ode to the Northeast Wind"
New to these winters - Galway Kinnell "The Road Between Here and There"
The whistle of a winter wind - Archibald Lampman "Chione"
Songs that winter may not tame - Archibald Lampman "God-Speed to the Snow"
Winter with wind and iron - Archibald Lampman "Sapphics"
Spicing up my winter quarantine - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"
Draws down the winter's frown - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
Quiet winter grinding like teeth set in sleep - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"
Winter will send me crocuses - R.B. Lemberg "The Rotten Leaf Cantata"
Gray starlings on the winter lawn - Philip Levine "For the Country: The Dream"
Will forget winter in my heart - Amy Levy "The Old Poet"
Splendid as the winter moon - Li T'ai-Po "Written in the Character of a Beautiful Woman Grieving Before Her Mirror" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
As winter takes my last dawn - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"
No winter in thy year - John Logan "Ode to the Cuckoo"
A field of spears, a lake of pikes, a sky of hawks, a hundred winters - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"
The snow of another winter, the glow of a new sunrise - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "oak"
Escaped from winter's keeping - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Miracle"
The wraith of winter, grown so pale - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Miracle"
Disturb the dream of winter - Edwin Markham "The Last Furrow"
His winter's cell of silver white - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"
In Winter's sullen dearth - Theodore Maynard "The English Spring"
Lays aside her tattered winter weeds - Theodore Maynard "Spring, 1916"
Blood of winter, color of rye - E.L. Mayo "Spring Is Coming"
Last winter's salt stains - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Whistling on under the Winter sky - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
But it is winter with your love - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Alms"
I know a winter when it comes - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Alms"
When the thawed winter splashes - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"
Vespers freeze early winter's backyard - Claire Millikin "Elegy for Sage Smith"
There will be no winter left - Claire Millikin "The Insect Doll"
An apatite translucency of winter sky - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"
The scent of pure winter - Vilyam Molut "Gift of the Sky" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
She shears the web of winter - N. Scott Momaday "The Snow Mare"
And drop into the frosty arms of Winter - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
A succession of winter voices - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Winter in their Heart - Vi Khi Nao "Bird Poem"
The violin of suffocated winter - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti
With masks bitten by winter - Pablo Neruda "The Destroyed Street" translated by Donald D Walsh
The raucous needle of winter - Pablo Neruda "The Drowned Woman of the Sky" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Bitten out by the teeth of winter - Pablo Neruda "Horses" transl. by Alastair Reid
Winter with its gloomy merchandise - Pablo Neruda "The Human Condition" transl. by Alastair Reid
A new winter more naked and more alone - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Twisted chairs waiting for winter - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
With wintry hand seeks our hearts - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh
More cutting than winter's voice - Pablo Neruda "Solar Ode to the Army of the People" translated by Richard Schaaf
Next to the water of winter - Pablo Neruda "The Son" transl. by Donald D. Walsh
That I divide with my winter eyes - Pablo Neruda "Sonata and Destruction" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The territories and distances of winter - Pablo Neruda "The Stones and the Birds" transl. by Dennis Maloney
The draughts of winter's pain - Francis Neilson "Let Us Make a Garden"
A flower your winter gardens hold - E. Nesbit "Death"
Trod dead leaves in chill and wintry ways - E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke "[Not Summer's crown of scent]"
That rocks thy reeds the winter long - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"
The sunshine of her face in winter - Meredith Nicholson "My Lady of the Golden Heart"
Splitting the hive of winter - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"
Not now your winter thoughts - Fernando Pessoa "Epithalamium"
The warlocks of winter are dead - Kiki Petrosino "Witch Wife"
Winter looking at May - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps "Released"
Featureless winter of grief - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"
For the warmth of winter gold - Andrea Potos "Crocheting in December"
Fields plowed and turned to winter - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"
While howls the wintry wind - Alexander Pushkin "[I've overlived aspirings]" transl. by John Pollen
Winter keeps us lucky - Khadijah Queen "Declination"
Exposed to winter's angry hand - Paige Quinones "Erosion"
In spite of the winter's woe - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Spring Hopes: Song"
Winter waiting for a meadow - Charles Rafferty "Mal Evans Counting"
When wintry hordes complain - Herbert Randall "The White Pine"
In the wood the furious winter blowing - John Crowe Ransom "Winter Remembered"
Sown by long winter women - Molly Raynor "A Dressed Up Potato Is Still a Potato (Yiddish Proverb)"
The cleft tree-trunk and the wintering ants - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
A thousand winters in my bones - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VII: Thaddeus the Unborn 1: The Call"
The coming edge of the winter world - Alberto Rios "December Morning in the Desert"
The dead hand of Winter is knocking at the door - Lloyd Roberts "The Wind Tongues"
From the fiords of the sunless winter - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
Foundering against the Russian winter - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"
Before the phantom of Pale Winter died - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
Winter weaving from flakes a robe - Rumi "I Saw the Winter Weaving" transl. by Rev. Professor Hastie
As winter crumples in thunder - Reg Saner "The Red Poppy"
The winter of Puritan snows - George Santayana "Fair Harvard"
To revenge themselves on winter's north wind cold - Friedrich Schiller "Thoughts on the 1st October, 1781"
Cargo in winter's hold - Ann K. Schwader "Cave Bear Dreams"
By fading firelight in the caves of winter - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"
Leaking heat into winter's infinity - Ann K. Schwader "Towers of Light"
But she shall bloom in winter snow - Sir Walter Scott "A Weary Lot Is Thine"
No enemy but winter and rough weather - Shakespeare "As You Like It: Under the Greenwood Tree"
Though they were with winter meet - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"
Let not winter's ragged hand deface - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VI"
Rising in glory from their winter graves - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Floral Resurrection" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Slows to its winter rhythm - Joyce Sidman "Into the Mud"
Drives Winter from his path of strife - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"
winter with its obsessed wind - Jake Skeets "Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa"
Twelve fingers stretching for the winter sky - Emily Smith "Such Monstrous Births"
With tones like winter's frozen wind - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Reconciliation"
The river's lifeline joins itself to winter - Richard Solomon "Ice in Formation"
Bleak winter in their frosty eyes - Leonora Speyer "Sand-Pipings: For a Spring Day"
Filled with a wild winter emptiness - Elizabeth Spires "Nightgown"
Where the witch of winter walked - Ezra Hurlburt Stafford "Chinook"
The winter comes with silver sword - James Stephens "Honoro Butler and Lord Kenmare (1720)"
Below the migrant winter stars - George Sterling "The Night Migration"
Their meek breath scenting the cowl of winter - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"
A mind of winter - Wallace Stevens "The Snow Man"
Must have a mind of winter - Wallace Stevens "The Snow Man"
The bough of summer and the winter branch - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
Spring wrings out the reedy winter chill - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"
Winter rattling at the door of June - Muriel Stuart "The Thief of Beauty"
Lost to the assault of winter snows - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 179: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Winter's moon will draw its line in naked truth - Carmen Sylva "The Shadow"
From November and the winter's stripping chill - Sonya Taaffe "Idle Thoughts While Watching a Faun"
Where my fingers cramp with winter and warmth - Sonya Taaffe "Night Boat"
And claim to love the wind and winter - Keith Taylor "Chasing the Ancient Murrelet"
At the tail end of a harsh winter - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"
Unstave the winter's tangle - Tess Taylor "Mud Season"
No less in the winter - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"
Wind and winter met together - "Tempest on the Sea" transl. by Robin Flower
Reflex of a winter moon - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Isabel"
Bent by the same wintry fever - Dylan Thomas "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower"
The skinning gales unpin the winter's robes - Dylan Thomas "Light breaks where no sun shines"
Who seeks through Winter's ruins - Edward Thomas "But These Things Also"
Something to pay Winter's debts - Edward Thomas "But These Things Also"
Which bravely wait the charge of Winter's cavalry - Henry David Thoreau "The Fall of the Leaf"
Winter is lurking within my moods - Henry David Thoreau "Nature's Child"
And thyme to scent the winter through - Katharine Tynan "The Choice"
Did you hear the edge of winter crumble? - Mark Van Doren "Spring Thunder"
Makes amends for all the wintry past - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"
One bite of winter lingers - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Wintergreen"
The finger of radiant winter weaves - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: The Glory of the Heavens" transl. by Alma Strettell
My heart in life's winter - Jones Very "The Winter Bird"
And you will shine bright as a winter star - Jamie Wasserman "Spontaneous Human Combustion"
Defies harsh winter's knell - Harvey Maitland Watts "To a Roadside Cedar"
The glittering sky of soundless winter - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Brave the passing wind of many winters - Henry Kirk White "Time"
Weep for Winter's tempest wild - Helen Hay Whitney "Sigh Not for Love"
At the winter's midnight - William Carlos Williams "Burning the Christmas Greens"
Winter is long in this climate - William Carlos Williams "March"
Of winter branches and old bones - William Carlos Williams "The Soughing Wind"
Prepared their buds against a sure winter - William Carlos Williams "Winter Trees"
In Winter's leaden air - Joseph R. Wilson "Winter's Sorrows"
Downwind through the winter weeds - Charles Wright "I've Been Sitting Here Thinking Back Over My Life..."
Winter jasmine wilts in its glass vase - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Winter silences us - Jane Yolen "Bird Watcher"
Winter has broken his windows - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today"
The winter smell of carnations - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Scavenged from the winter beach - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
Break this winter day's narcissus - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #1" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
a walk in a midwinter ochre wood - Jason Allen-Paisant "And You..."
Fettered in midwinter's crystal chains - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Pilot of the Plains"
Like the seed of midwinter - William Morris "The Pilgrims of Hope I: The Message of the March Wind"
Like overwintered wasps plotting assassinations - Matthew Wimberley "The Celebrated Colors of the Local Sunsets"
An April bud on winter-haunted trees - Walter de la Mare "Sleeping Beauty"
Alone in the winter-house - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: II"
From the peatmoss of our winter-keep - Serena Chopra "Garden Variety with Lesbians"
The winterlight consumes the field - Taylor Johnson "Art Movie"
The park is winter-plucked - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"
When winter-time grows weary - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"
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