IN THIS ISSUE: November 2009

Poetry Magazine

Poems by James Schuyler; a portfolio of new work by 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellows Eric Ekstrand, Chloë Honum, Joseph Spece, Jeffrey Schultz, and Malachi Black; translations of Gottfried Benn by Michael Hofmann; “The Poet Takes a Walk” featuring Peter Cole, Kay Ryan, W.S. Di Piero, and others.

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There are 172 Poems about Winter

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A Country Boy in Winter
By Sarah Orne Jewett

A Gothic Tale
By Theodore Weiss

A January Dandelion
By George Marion McClellan

A Pumpkin at New Year’s
By Sandra McPherson

A Rhapsody of a Southern Winter Night
By Henry Timrod

A Visit from St. Nicholas
By Clement Clarke Moore

A Winter Daybreak above Vence
By James Wright

A Winter Night
By Robert Burns

A Winter Visit
By Dannie Abse

Address to A Child During A Boisterous Winter Evening
By Dorothy Wordsworth

Alas, Kind Element!
By Léonie Adams

Almond Blossom
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Birches
By Robert Frost

Blizzard
By William Carlos Williams

Bronzes
By Carl Sandburg

Chicago and December First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Di Piero

Christmas Eve in Whitneyville
By Donald Hall

Christmas Tree Lots First appeared in Poetry
By Chris Green

Conches on Christmas First appeared in Poetry
By Mike Chasar

Constancy to an Ideal Object
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Courtship First appeared in Poetry
By Talvikki Ansel

Crossing the Square
By Grace Schulman

Dejection: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Dust of Snow
By Robert Frost

Early December in Croton-on-Hudson
By Louise Glück

Fall, leaves, fall
By Emily Jane Brontë

Fancy
By John Keats

February
By Margaret Atwood

February First appeared in Poetry
By Bill Christophersen

February Evening in New York
By Denise Levertov

February Sky
By Bruce Smith

First Movement
By Robert Fitzgerald

Firstlings
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December wind
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Glanmore Sonnets
By Seamus Heaney

Good-bye, and Keep Cold
By Robert Frost

Here Where Coltrane Is
By Michael S. Harper

Holy Thursday: Is this a holy thing to see
By William Blake

Horses in Snow
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

I Know, I Remember, But How Can I Help You
By Hayden Carruth

Ice First appeared in Poetry
By Gail Mazur

Ice Bound
By Walter Bargen

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 30
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 72
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 78
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 83
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memory of Jane Fraser
By Geoffrey Hill

In Winter
By Michael Ryan

Into Death Bravely
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Justice, Come Down
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Late February
By Ted Kooser

Left to Itself the Heart Could Almost Melt, Mend First appeared in Poetry
By Jill Osier

Lines for Winter
By Mark Strand

Lines Written among the Euganean Hills
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lines: The cold earth slept below
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

London Snow
By Robert Bridges

Low Barometer
By Robert Bridges

Lullaby First appeared in Poetry
By Amanda Jernigan

Manitoba Childe Roland
By Carl Sandburg

Midwinter
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Midwinter
By Sophie Jewett

More Sonnets At Christmas
By Allen Tate

My Sister's Sleep
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Narcolepsy
By Ann Lauterbach

Night Ferry
By Peter Sacks

North
By Seamus Heaney

Nullaby First appeared in Poetry
By Atsuro Riley

Ode to a Blizzard First appeared in Poetry
By Tom Disch

Of Forced Sightes and Trusty Ferefulness
By Jorie Graham

Passages from Virgil’s First Georgic
By Robert Fitzgerald

Penumbrae
By John Updike

Postpartum Blues First appeared in Poetry
By Elton Glaser

Preludes
By T. S. Eliot

Reluctance
By Robert Frost

Retroduction to American History
By Allen Tate

Robin Hood
By John Keats

Scrabble with Matthews First appeared in Poetry
By David Wojahn

Sequels to an Uncollected Winter
By G. E. Murray

Signs
By Larry Levis

Snow Becoming Light by Morning First appeared in Poetry
By Jill Osier

Snow flakes. (45)
By Emily Dickinson

Snow Signs
By Charles Tomlinson

Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Snow-flakes
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Snowflake
By William Baer

Snowmen
By Agha Shahid Ali

Song
By Sophie Jewett

Song of Ecclesiastes
By George Elliott Clarke

Sonnet LXXXIV
By Anna Seward

Sonnet XCVII: How like a Winter hath my Absence been
By William Shakespeare

Sonnets for Five Seasons
By Anne Stevenson

Stargnoc Caz!
By Bernadette Mayer

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
By Robert Frost

Sunday Skaters
By Mary Jo Salter

The Bad Old Days
By Kenneth Rexroth

The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill
By Robert W. Service

The Body
By Frederick Morgan

The Burning Babe
By Robert Southwell, SJ

The Children of Stare
By Walter De La Mare

The Cremation of Sam McGee
By Robert W. Service

The Cross of Snow
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Curtain
By Hayden Carruth

The Darkling Thrush
By Thomas Hardy

The Dead of Winter
By Samuel Menashe

The Dipper First appeared in Poetry
By Kathleen Jamie

The First Person
By David Baker

The Four Seasons
By Henry Carlile

The Knight's Tomb
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Little Match Girl
By William McGonagall

The Lonely Death
By Adelaide Crapsey

The Months First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Pastan

The night is darkening round me
By Emily Jane Brontë

The Parlement of Fowls
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Question
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Sleigh-Bells
By Susanna Moodie

The Snow Is Deep on the Ground
By Kenneth Patchen

The Snow Man
By Wallace Stevens

The Snow-Storm
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Snowbound City
By John Haines

The Soldier and the Snow
By Miguel Hernández

from The Task, Book IV: The Winter Evening
By William Cowper

from The Task, Book V: The Winter Morning Walk
By William Cowper

from The Task, Book VI: The Winter Walk at Noon
By William Cowper

The View from an Attic Window
By Howard Nemerov

The Wind, the Sun and the Moon
By Anne Stevenson

The Wood-Pile
By Robert Frost

There's a certain Slant of light, (320)
By Emily Dickinson

Three Six Five Zero First appeared in Poetry
By Conor O'Callaghan

Three Sonnets
By James Galvin

Ties that Bind
By Richard Emil Braun

To Bessie Drennan First appeared in Poetry
By Mark Doty

To Mr. Lawrence
By John Milton

To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year
By Philip Appleman

To the Quarry and Back First appeared in Poetry
By Katia Kapovich

Tree
By Nikki Grimes

Twenty Below
By Paul Engle

Two Songs from a Car First appeared in Poetry
By Ioanna Carlsen

Under the Greenwood Tree
By William Shakespeare

Up at a Villa—Down in the City
By Robert Browning

Very Strong February
By Bernadette Mayer

Wash of Cold River
By H. D.

Way-Station
By Archibald MacLeish

What Calls Us
By David Bengtson

What the Winds Bring
By Edmund Clarence Stedman

When Daisies Pied and Violets Blue
By William Shakespeare

White Darkness
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

White-Eyes First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Oliver

Windigo
By Louise Erdrich

Winter
By Anne Hunter

Winter Campus: Ann Arbor
By Dudley Randall

Winter Dawn
By Kenneth Slessor

Winter Dusk
By Walter De La Mare

Winter Journal: Disseminate Birds over Water
By Emily Wilson

Winter Journal: Fish Rises, Dark Brown Muscle Turns Over
By Emily Wilson

Winter Journal: Gold Rivulet Weave, Gauded
By Emily Wilson

Winter Journal: Gray Shadings
By Emily Wilson

Winter Journal: Scratchings among the Burnings
By Emily Wilson

Winter Journal: The Sky Is the Lost Orpheum
By Emily Wilson

Winter Journal: Threshed Blue, Cardings, Dim Tonsils
By Emily Wilson

Winter Journal: Wind Thumbs through Woods
By Emily Wilson

Winter Love
By Linda Gregg

Winter promises
By Marge Piercy

Winter Remembered
By John Crowe Ransom

Winter Trees
By William Carlos Williams

Wish for an Overcoat
By Alfred Islay Walden

Wood
By Reginald Gibbons

Work without Hope
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

XXVIII
By Clarence Major

Xylem First appeared in Poetry
By Talvikki Ansel

Yesterday
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

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By Lorine Niedecker