Winter: A Season in Verse

Winter: the time of the year when the nights close in and the temperature drops below freezing. It seems like a season that everyone struggles to get through, only enduring it because of the promise of spring's return. For many, however, it is the bounty of Christmas that steals their attention; for others, it is the renewal of the New Year. But for nature it is pause for breath, to take stock of what has gone by in the year and ready itself for the energies and dramatic development that spring will bring. Winter has its beauty too: the frost covered ground, the grey swell of the sea, and the bleak yet beautiful stark landscape.

Our collection of poems brings together the talents of many beloved poets such as Thomas Hardy, Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, Daniel Sheehan, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Emily Bronte, to catalog and celebrate this season.