When winter comes, the world holds its breath. Snow drapes the earth in silence, and light softens like a secret kept close.

In the one hundred fifty-four sonnets of William Shakespeare (1564–1616), the seasons, invoked as metaphors for lovers’ joys and sorrows, turn up again and again, like pages in a calendar. “Shall I ...

“Those Winter Sundays” is a poem that captures in 14 lines the enormous struggle against the cold, write Patrick B. Whalen. STEVEN KRIEMADIS / Getty Images/iStockphoto Winter in Detroit is a miniature ...

Winter Poetus by Favorite American Poets. With Illustrations. Boston : Fields, Osgood, & Co. A Child’s Dream of a Star. By CHARLES DICKENS. With Illustrations by ...

Last March, The New York Sun offered “Windy Nights” as its Poem of the Day, and perhaps it’s time to revisit Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), this time for a winter poem. His collection, “A Child’s ...

At the base of Grand Mesa, on the eastern edge of Palisade, where the peaches grow and generous slopes of vineyards overflow into the valley, we awoke to our first snow on the last Saturday of ...

The Winter Poetry Festival is coming to Coventry this weekend and will feature live poetry readings from local poets. The Festival, which is sponsored by the Coventry Arts Guild, is set to take place ...

J.M. Allen’s traditionally published book “Real Rhyming Poems” is available at the Rochester Public Library and some area schools and coffee shops. The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area ...

Sometimes things live up to their name. Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ...

Adirondacks writer and poet George Cassidy Payne shares a collection of winter-themed poems to add color to the cold.

Shania Twain is a proud Canadian, sharing stories of her childhood in From This Moment On. That includes one hilarious and “beautifully well-written” poem that would get her and her siblings through ...