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“With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!”

Children Dies Dark Sky Cry Wind Spring Winter Arise March Stubborn Unseen Rushing Gloomy Bidding

Book:The Poems

Source: The Poems

“Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.”

Has Beens Sound Cry Wind Summer Winter Funeral

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant we ran rather than loitered.”

Ifs Poor Poverty Sun Wind Clothes Winter Ran Our Family Torn Overcoat

Book:A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue

Source: A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue

“Winter is on the road to spring. Some think it a surly road. I do not. A primrose road to spring were not as engaging to my heart as a frozen icicled craggy way angered over by strong winds that never take the iron trumpets from their lips.”

Thinking Way Heart Strong Wind My Heart Spring Winter Lips Iron Engaging Frozen Trumpets Surly Strong Winds

Author:William Alfred Quayle

“Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost.”

World Reason Wind Determination Winter Live By Frost Hardened

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“The winter is made and you have to bear it, The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind, For all the thoughts of summer that go with it In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags.”

Mind Made Wind Bears Summer Winter Woven Straws Rags

Book:The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“The aged oak upon the steep stands more firm and secure if assailed by angry winds; for if the winter bares its head, the more strongly it strikes its roots into the ground, acquiring strength as it loses beauty.”

Ifs Loses Wind Roots Angry Winter Strikes Secure Firm Oaks Steep Firmness

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the year when the icy January wind carries over the waste at once the dirge of departing winter, and the prophecy of coming spring.”

Years Turns Hours Wind Terrible Waste Spring Winter Carrie Prophecy January Icy Departing

Book:Shirley and The Professor

Source: Shirley and The Professor

“When one has faith that the spring thaw will arrive, the winter winds seem to lose some of their punch.”

Seems Loses Wind Spring Winter Have Faith

Author:Robert Veninga

“Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.”

Art Sky Wind Victory Summer Blue Winter Welcome Bitter Thee Vain March Mock Blue Sky Slayer

Book:The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

“The winter passes and the warm winds of May made me long to wander again. The whistling of a locomotive on a still night had a lure, unexplainable, yet strong, like the light which leads a moth to destruction.”

May Long Made Stills Light Night Strong Wind Destruction Winter Warm Wander Lure Moths Whistling Unexplainable Locomotives

Author:Jim Tully

“Winter near the shore is cold. The wind kicks up a salty mist and elephant seals come to shore to trumpet and rut and birth their pups. Retired people put sweaters on their lap dogs and drag them down the street on retractable leashes in a nightly parade of doggy humiliation. Surfers don their wetsuits against the chill of storm waves and white sharks adjust their diets to include shrink-wrapped dude-snacks on fiberglass crackers.”

“Brew me a cup for a winter's night. For the wind howls loud and the furies fight; Spice it with love and stir it with care, And I'll toast our bright eyes, my sweetheart fair.”

Eye Care Night Fighting Wind Fairs Winter Cups Loud Fury Spices January Toasts Howl Sweetheart Bright Eyes My Sweetheart

Author:Minna Antrim

“Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.”

World Sound Wind Solitude Winter Colour

Author:Matsuo Basho

“nights and days came and passed and summer and winter and the sun and the wind and the rain. and it was good to be a little island a part of the world and a world of its own all surrounded by the bright blue sea.”

World Littles Night Sun Sea Wind Summer Rain Blue Winter Islands Summer And Winter Blue Sea

Book:The little island

Source: The little island

“I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?”

Thinking Play Seems Sleep Simple Walks Watches Wind Wake Up Tired Winter Snow Trash Going To Sleep I'm Tired

Book:The Time Traveler's Wife

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

“I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart to dust. Struck by the clouds of cruel fate My crown of Summer bloom is sere Alone and sad, I watch and wait And wonder if the end is near. As conquered by the last cold air When Winter whistles in the wind Alone upon a branch that's bare A trembling leaf is left behind.”

“In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.”

“Birds are flyin' south for winter. Here's the Weird-Bird headin' north, Wings a-flappin', beak a-chatterin', Cold head bobbin' back 'n' forth. He says, "It's not that I like ice Or freezin' winds and snowy ground. It's just sometimes it's kind of nice To be the only bird in town.”

Kind Sometimes Nice Wind Cold Bird Towns Wings South Winter Ice Snowy Beaks

Author:Shel Silverstein

“That Arthur has not always existed seems odd to me. Like the wind on the moors and the wild winter stars, surely he has always lived . . . and always will.”

Seems Stars Wind Winter Odd Arthur Moors

Author:Stephen R. Lawhead