Penny's Poetry Blog

Written in Winter Now o'er the fading landscape all around His silver mantle hoary Winter spreads: No more the groves with melody r...

Over the wood the sun burns Over the wood the sun burns, Over the wood and the snow; As southward and sunward the year turns, Glad in...

from The Task, Book IV :      Oh Winter! ruler of the inverted year, Thy scatter’d hair with sleet like ashes fill’d, Thy breath congeal...

Winter Now the snow lies on the ground and more snow is descending upon it — Patches of red dirt hold together the old snow patche...

January: A pastoral poem Tho' Janus has widen'd the day, And December that nurtur'd the storm Each terror suspends to conve...

The Snow-Flake Once he sang of summer, Nothing but the summer; Now he sings of winter, Of winter bleak and drear: Just because there...

Winter in the Country Sweet life! how lovely to be here      And feel the soft sea-laden breeze Strike my flushed face, the spruce's...