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Famous Winter(A) Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Winter(A) poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous winter(a) poems. These examples illustrate what a famous winter(a) poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Burns, Robert
...THE WINTRY west extends his blast,
 And hail and rain does blaw;
Or the stormy north sends driving forth
 The blinding sleet and snaw:
While, tumbling brown, the burn comes down,
 And roars frae bank to brae;
And bird and beast in covert rest,
 And pass the heartless day.


“The sweeping blast, the sky o’ercast,”
 The joyless winter day
Let others fear...Read more of this...



by Brautigan, Richard
...SEA, SEA RIDER


The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a

three-legged crow on the dandelion side of the mountain.

 He was, of course, a Jew, a retired merchant seaman

who had been torpedoed in the North Atlantic and floated

there day after day until death did not want him. He had a

young wife, a heart attack, a Volkswag...Read more of this...

by Hecht, Anthony
...We have set out from here for the sublime
Pastures of summer shade and mountain stream;
I have no doubt we shall arrive on time.

Is all the green of that enameled prime
A snapshot recollection or a dream?
We have set out from here for the sublime

Without provisions, without one thin dime,
And yet, for all our clumsiness, I deem
It certain that we sha...Read more of this...

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