Winter Poems

Our anthology of winter poems begins with a few classics:

• William Shakespeare,
  “Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind” from As You Like It (1600)
  
  
• Thomas Campion,
  “Now Winter Nights Enlarge” (1617)
  
  
• Robert Burns,
  “Winter: A Dirge” (1781)
  
  
• Emily Dickinson,
  “There’s a Certain Slant of Light” (#82)
  
  
• Robert Frost,
  “Dust of Snow” & “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (1923)

To which we’ve added a selection of the poems on winter themes we’ve received from contemporary poets:

• Denis Dunn, “Winter in Maine on Rte 113” & “Silent Solstice (Winter Becomes Maine)”
  
  
• Joel Lewis, “Making a Meal Out of It”
  
  
• Charles Mariano, “This Winter”
  
  
• Whitman McGowan, “It Was So Cold”
  
  
• Justine Nicholas, “Palais d’Hiver”
  
  
• Debbie Ouellet, “North Wind”
  
  
• Joseph Pacheco, “Cold Winter Morn in Florida”
  
  
• Barbara Reiher-Meyers, “Blizzard” & “Sweet and Bitter”
  
  
• Todd-Earl Rhodes, Untitled poem
  
  
• Robert Savino, “Shortcut Through the Storm”
  
  
• Jackie Sheeler, “Underground Xmas”
  
  
• Lisa Shields, “Reaching for White”
  
  
• Aldo Tambellini, “October 19, 1990”
  
  
• Joyce Wakefield, “Winter Conversation”

Enjoy these poems of the season!