The days are short,
The sun a spark
Hung thin between
The dark and dark.
– John Updike
Art: Kiyomizudo in Snow – Kawase Hasui
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Winter
“Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.”
― Mary Oliver
“Sunset in a Winter Forest” – Julius von Klever, 1904
Julius Sergius von Klever (January 31, 1850 – December 24, 1924) was a Baltic German landscape painter.
‘Ring Out, Wild Bells’
“Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.”
–Alfred Lord Tennyson,- ‘Ring Out, Wild Bells’.
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Emile Branchard – Winter Night c.1930′s
Winter!
“How winter fills my soul!”
– Sylvia Plath – from Three Women, 1962
Art – Cuno Amiet
Winter is cold-hearted
Winter is cold-hearted,
Spring is yea and nay,
Autumn is a weathercock
Blown every way:
Summer days for me
When every leaf is on its tree;
– from “Summer” by Christina Rossetti
Art by Florence Harrison, illustration to “The Poems of Christina Rossetti”.
On winter leave
Today I am on winter leave
As my soul is too heavy
with all the snowdrops,
violets and perfumes of spring…
Your heart is wondrous
and alone
till you find me
aching for lilies of the valley.
Art by Julius von Klever.