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Poem by Robert Southey


Winter


A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee,
Old Winter, with a rugged beard as grey
As the long moss upon the apple-tree;
Blue-lipt, an icedrop at thy sharp blue nose,
Close muffled up, and on thy dreary way
Plodding alone through sleet and drifting snows.
They should have drawn thee by the high-heapt hearth,
Old Winter! seated in thy great armed chair,
Watching the children at their Christmas mirth;
Or circled by them as thy lips declare
Some merry jest, or tale of murder dire,
Or troubled spirit that disturbs the night,
Pausing at times to rouse the mouldering fire,
Or taste the old October brown and bright. 



Robert Southey

Poem Theme: Winter

Robert Southey's other poems:
  1. King Charlemain
  2. For the Cenotaph at Ermenonville
  3. King Henry the Fifth and the Hermit of Dreux
  4. For a Tablet at Penshurst
  5. For a Monument at Taunton


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Samuel Johnson Winter ("No more the morn with tepid rays")
  • Dante Rossetti Winter ("How large that thrush looks on the bare thorn-tree!")
  • William Morris Winter ("I am Winter, that do keep")
  • William Shakespeare Winter ("When icicles hang by the wall")
  • Charles Mackay Winter ("When the tempests fly")
  • George Russell Winter ("A DIAMOND glow of winter o’er the world")
  • Robert Burns Winter ("THE wintry wast extends his blast")
  • Janet Hamilton Winter ("Loud blaw the wild an' wintry win's")
  • Anne Hunter Winter ("Behold the gloomy tyrant’s awful form")
  • John Lapraik Winter ("STERN Winter comes, with threat’ning frown")
  • Henry Alford Winter ("Had I the wondrous magic to invest")
  • Edith Nesbit Winter ("HOLD your hands to the blaze")
  • Archibald Lampman Winter ("The long days came and went; the riotous bees")

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