The weather outside may turn frightful, but these poems will still be delightful. Click on the name of the poem in each caption to read the full text. What's your favorite poem about winter?
"...snowfall makes no noise,/ falls as forgetting falls,/ flake after flake." from "The Snowfall is so Silent" by Miguel de Unamuna
"The paint is pretty well worn off,/ But then I take the lead;/ A dandy sled's a loiterer,/ And I go in for speed." from "A Country Boy in Winter" by Sarah Orne Jewett
"... we whistle to make breath clouds form/ and disappear, and form again, and O,/ my love, there's sun in the crook of your arm." from "Crossing the Square" by Grace Schulman
"once a snowflake fell/on my brow and i loved/it..." from "Winter Poem" by Nikki Giovanni
"Snow would be the easy/way out--that softening/sky like a sigh of relief..." from "November for Beginners" by Rita Dove
"Sundays too my father got up early/and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold..." from "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden
"Wanted: One moment in mountains/when winter got so cold/ the oil froze before it could burn..." from "Horses in Snow" by Roberta Hill
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