In February / Frank Dempster Sherman

In February

Like mimic meteors the snow
In silence out of heaven sifts.
And wanton winds that wake and blow
Pile high their monumental drifts.

And looking through the window-panes
I see, 'mid loops and angles crossed,
The dainty geometric skeins
Drawn by the fingers of the Frost.

'Tis here at dawn where comes his love,
All eager and with smile benign,
A golden Sunbeam from above,
To read the Frost's gay valentine.

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Frank Dempster Sherman (1860-1916)
From Madrigals and Catches, 1887

[Poem is in the public domain worldwide]

 
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Alexandr Frolov, Frosted Patterns on a Window, 2011. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.