2007
'Lonely Road ... '
I prefer winter and fall,
when you feel the bone structure of the landscape
- the loneliness of it,
the dead feeling of winter.
Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.
--Andrew Wyeth
2007
'The Old Man ... '
Every mile is two in winter.
--George Herbert
2007
'The Old Man ... '
I was just thinking,
if it is really religion with these nudist colonies,
they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.
--Will Rogers
2007
'The Old Man ... '
Every winter,
When the great sun has turned his face away,
The earth goes down into a vale of grief,
And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables,
Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay -
Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
--Charles Kingsley
2007
'Frosted Branches ... '
When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves
... Welcome wool sweaters.
--B. Cybrill
2007
'Red Tail ... '
Look! the massy trunks
Are cased in the pure crystal; each light spray,
Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven,
Is studded with its trembling water-drops,
That glimmer with an amethystine light.
--William Cullen Bryant
2007
'Wintery Shoreline ... '
In nature things move violently to their place,
and calmly in their place.
--Francis Bacon
2007
'Wintery Shoreline ... '
Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl
Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright
From the ice roof depending; and beneath,
Grottoes and temples with their crystal spires
And gleaming columns radiant in the sun.
--William Henry Burleigh
2007
'Wintery Shoreline ... '
The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2007
'A Little Sunlight ... '
There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons--
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes--
--Emily Dickinson
