Goodbye snow; hello wind. Two little reflections by the Scottish cleric-cum-poet Andrew Young (1885-1971) catch the shifting season with his distinctive view of the natural world, always closely ...

Skiing the toll road on Whiteface Mountain. A clear sign of winter landed in parts of the Adirondacks last week as several inches of snow covered the ground. Temperatures rose after the dustings ...

Dear Readers: Below are a few of my favorite poems about winter and snowy days. I hope you enjoy them while the days are shorter and the nights longer. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ...

In the old American classic, John Greenleaf Whittier’s 1866 “Snow-Bound” (a Poem of the Day last winter), the answer to the season’s snow is companionship and reading. For the Russian Pushkin, the ...

Naomi Shihab Nye's 1998 poem "Snow" is one of those poems. ... The winter storm is a landscape the poet uses to translate and understand what can take place between two people.

And I always - as soon as I read this new poem, "Nothing New," by Frost, I thought it's essentially a version of "Dust Of Snow," which I think he wrote the following year. That poem stays in my brain.

And in this meter, the poem argues that spring is more melancholy than winter. With its frailty, spring tells us that it must pass, while winter, with its hardness, tells us that the origin of beauty ...

And I always - as soon as I read this new poem, "Nothing New," by Frost, I thought it's essentially a version of "Dust Of Snow," which I think he wrote the following year. That poem stays in my brain.