Posts Tagged: snow
Winter walks through an open gate
"Some, too fragile for winter winds The thoughtful grave encloses -- Tenderly tucking them in from frost Before their feet are cold." (E. Dickinson in Some, too fragile ....) (Liège (B)
A chair in snow is always sad
“… a chair is shaped for just one thing
to hold
a soul its quick and few bendable
hours
perhaps a king
not to hold snow
not to hold flowers”
(J. Hirshfield in A chair in snow)
Liège (B)
Snow-white advertising
“O snow, which sinks so light,
Brown earth is hid from sight
O soul, be thou as white as snow,
O snow, which falls so slow,
Dear earth quite warm below;
O heart, so keep thy glow
Beneath the snow.”
(C.A. Elgar-Robberts in The snow)
Barchon (B)
4 Signs in the snow
“O snow, in thy soft grave
Sad flow’rs the winter brave;
O heart, so sooth and save,
as does the snow.
The snow must melt, must go,
Fast, fast as water flow.
Not thus, my soul, O sow
Thy gifts to fade like snow.”
(C.A. Elgar in The snow)
Voerstreek (B)
“Farewell, my joy”
“Farewell, my joy! For other hearts the Spring,
For other eyes the roses; but for me
The iron gate …”
(M. Coleridge in Farewell, my joy)
Maastricht (NL)