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Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl is a long narrative poem by American poet John Greenleaf Whittier first published in 1866. The poem, presented as a series of stories told by a family amid a snowstorm, was extremely successful and popular in its time. The poem depicts a peaceful return to idealistic domesticity and rural life after the American Civil War.
"Winter Solstice, Camelot Station" is a poem by John M. Ford, about the Knights of the Round Table at a train station in Camelot.It was first published as Ford's Christmas card, [1] and came to broader attention after Jane Yolen submitted it to Parke Godwin for inclusion in the 1988 anthology Invitation to Camelot.
The text of the poem reflects the thoughts of a lone wagon driver (the narrator), on the night of the winter solstice, "the darkest evening of the year", pausing at dusk in his travel to watch snow falling in the woods. It ends with him reminding himself that, despite the loveliness of the view, "I have promises to keep, / And miles to go ...
John le Carré's famous spy thriller isn't explicitly a winter book, but the title definitely evokes wintertime, so we're counting it. The story follows British agent Alec Lemas who is sent to ...
Caswall wrote "See, amid the winter's snow" shortly after converting from the Church of England to the Roman Catholic Church and joining the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri. The hymn was published earliest in 1858 as part of The Masque of Mary and Other Poems by Caswall. [3] In 1871, John Goss wrote the tune "Humility" specifically for the carol.
A man walks on a bridge in the faint light of sunset in Tokyo on December 20, 2022. Residents of Japan's capital city will get nine hours and 44 minutes of daylight on winter solstice.
If on a winter's night a traveler (Italian: Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore) is a 1979 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino. The postmodernist narrative, in the form of a frame story, is about the reader trying to read a book called If on a winter's night a traveler. Each chapter is divided into two sections.
To drive the cold winter away. When white-bearded frost hath threatened his worst, And fallen from branch and brier, Then time away calls, from husbandry halls And from the good countryman's fire, Together to go to plough and to sow, To get us both food and array; And thus with content the time we have spent To drive the cold winter away.