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Here are some snow poems:
"From Heaven I fall, though from earth I begin.
No lady alive can show such a skin.
I'm bright as an angel, and light as a feather,
But heavy and dark, when you squeeze me together.
Though candor and truth in my aspect I bear,
Yet many poor creatures I help to insnare.
Though so much of Heaven appears in my make,
The foulest impressions I easily take.
My parent and I produce one another,
The mother the daughter, the daughter the
mother."
- James Parton,
A Riddle - On Snow
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
— Lewis Carroll
The
Snowfall Is So Silent
Miguel de
Unamuno -
1864-1936
translated by Robert Bly
The snowfall is so silent,
so
slow,
bit
by bit, with delicacy
it
settles down on the earth
and
covers over the fields.
The
silent snow comes down
white
and weightless;
snowfall
makes no noise,
falls
as forgetting falls,
flake
after flake.
It
covers the fields gently
while
frost attacks them
with
its sudden flashes of white;
covers
everything with its pure
and
silent covering;
not
one thing on the ground
anywhere
escapes it.
And
wherever it falls it stays,
content
and gay,
for
snow does not slip off
as
rain does,
but
it stays and sinks in.
The
flakes are skyflowers,
pale
lilies from the clouds,
that
wither on earth.
They
come down blossoming
but
then so quickly
they
are gone;
they
bloom only on the peak,
above
the mountains,
and
make the earth feel heavier
when
they die inside.
Snow,
delicate snow,
that
falls with such lightness
on
the head,
on
the feelings,
come
and cover over the sadness
that
lies always in my reason.
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