Wallace Stevens
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Snowman
Posted in Poetry, tagged contemporary writing, Poetry on 17 February, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Desert Places
Posted in Poetry, tagged contemporary poetry on 6 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Robert Frost
Snow falling and night falling fast, oh fast
In a field I looked into going past
And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,
But a few weeds and stubble sowing last.
The woods around it have it – it is theirs
All animals are smoothered in their lairs,
I am too absent-spirited to count;
The loneliness includes me unawares.
And lonely [...]
