In winter All the singing is in The tops of the trees Where the wind-bird With its white eyes Shoves and pushes Among the branches.
—Mary OliverThe new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night.
—Ella Wheeler WilcoxThe angels came from heaven high, And they were clad with wings; And lo, they brought a joyful song The host of heaven sings.
—Sara TeasdaleThen the Menorah once again Illumed the holy shrine, One little flask of sacred oil, Saved unpolluted from the spoil Supplied the light divine.
—Marion HartogCarols sung out in the snow, A Snowman built with eyes aglow, Crackers pulled, a song to sing, Candles lit, and bells that ring.
—Ernestine NorthoverOnly the tree-tops bare Crowning the hill, Clear-cut in perfect air Warn us that still Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower.
—Robert Fuller MurrayA sound commences in my left ear like the sound of the sea in a shell; a downward, vertiginous drag comes with it. Time to head home.
—Jane KenyonAnd already still November Drapes her snowy table here. Fetch a log, then; coax the ember; Fill your hearts with old-time cheer; Heaven be thanked for one more year.
—George Parsons LathropI didn’t know I was grateful For such late-autumn Bent-up cornfields Yellow in the after-harvest Sun before the Cold plow turns it all over.
—Bruce WeiglHow silently they tumble down And come to rest upon the ground To lay a carpet, rich and rare, Beneath the trees without a care.
—Elsie N. BradyMeanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, Are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, The world offers itself to your imagination.
—Mary OliverThe leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.
—Henry BestonThere is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.
—Nathaniel HawthorneYou belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free.
—Tom PettyThe wind and welkin and wave are ours Wherever our bourne is found, And we envy no landsman his dream and sleep When we’re off to the fishing ground.
—Lucy Maud MontgomeryNo one can tell me, Nobody knows, Where the wind comes from,Where the wind goes. It’s flying from somewhere As fast as it can, I couldn’t keep up with it, Not if I ran.
—A.A. MilneTivoli Girl, Don’t you hear the music play? If you’ll be my pal in the summertime Down beside the ocean blue, When the snow flies Tivoli Girl, I’ll be dreaming of you.
—Will HardyThe wheel is ready to turn again. When you have gone it will light up, The shadow of the spokes to drown Your departure where the summer knells.
—John AshberyIt is a real chill out, The genuine thing. I am not deceived, I do not think it is still summer Because sun stays and birds continue to sing.
—Gwendolyn BrooksHere come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart.)
—Robert Frost