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Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl

John Greenleaf Whittier

Book Overview: 

A 750-line idyllic poem about a snow-storm from the narrator’s childhood.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .The sled and traveller stopped, the courier’s feet

Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit

Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed

In a tumultuous privacy of storm.”

Emerson.

 
 

HE sun that brief December day

Rose cheerless over hills of gray,

And, darkly circled, gave at noon

A sadder light than waning moon.

Slow tracing down the thickening sky

Its mute and ominous prophecy,

A portent seeming less than threat,

It sank from sight before it set.

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A chill no coat, however stout,

Of homespun stuff could quite shut out,

A hard, dull bitterness of cold,

That checked, mid-vein, the circling race

Of life-blood in the sharpened face,

The coming of the snow-storm told.

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Community Reviews

Long form poem by Whittier; Atmospheric and a good winter read.

A mature, reflective piece that I was ready and in the right frame of mind for. Worked well for me.

At one time this little book containing Whittier's long poem about a family stuck inside due to a storm was read as inspiration of hope. The Civil War had divided us as a country, there was national mourning for the dead, and racial tensions were at an all time high. The poem invokes simple times wi

To be snow-bound for three days, in the midst of a New England blizzard, does not sound like too bad a fate in this 1866 poem by poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Written originally as a sort of family gift, to help members of the Whittier family remember loved ones who had passed away, Snow-Bound: A Wi

It's really somewhere between a 3 and a 4. My favorites are Snowbound and Maud Muller as well as the ending of In School-Days. My edition is about pocket, lovely cover and equally lovely illustrations. It was a random happy find.

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