Some Winter Poems

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It's that time of year again, so we are bringing out of mothballs our old collection of poems about winter. The text of the poems is available through links to the wonderful web site run by the Poetry Foundation. The Poetry Foundation is the institution established by Poetry Magazine, the famous little magazine started before World War I that published poets like William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, H.D., T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, and Ezra Pound before they hit the big time. In 2007 heiress Ruth Lily made the astonishing donation of $100 million to Poetry Magazine, which has been putting that donation to very generous public use, creating the best general all-round internet site for poetry. The Poetry Foundation has good, long, reliable (encyclopedia-type) articles on famous poets, old poets, classic poets, avant-garde poets, traditional poets, emerging poets, all poets, and samples of their poems, and a steady stream of topical news and feature articles on 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]