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\"Thrushes

Thrushes in winter.<\/p><\/div>\n

Sometimes a poem evokes the mood of a season more than anything else could. Here are three of my favorites for winter. The first, “Picture-books in Winter<\/strong>” by Robert Louis Stevenson, paints a lyrical picture of the joys of reading in a cozy nursery as the outside world grows frosty. The second poem, “The Snow Storm<\/strong>” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, vividly shares the “tumultuous privacy” and “frolic architecture” of a snow storm. The final poem is “The Darkling Thrush<\/strong>” by Thomas Hardy, which reveals the power in “the full-hearted evensong \/\u00a0Of joy illimited” from an aging thrush.<\/p>\n

Each of these lovely pieces provides a different way of looking at winter and appreciating its beauty. One way to help your students absorb the equisite intricacy of poetic language is to have them copy their favorite poems into a notebook. This is also a good way to begin memorizing a poem for recitations. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Picture-books in Winter<\/h4>\n

by Robert Louis Stevenson<\/em><\/p>\n

Summer fading, winter comes-
\nFrosty mornings, tingling thumbs
\nWindow robins, winter rooks,
\nAnd the picture story-books.<\/p>\n

Water now is turned to stone
\nNurse and I can walk upon;
\nStill we find the flowing brooks
\nIn the picture story-books.<\/p>\n

All the pretty things put by,
\nWait upon the children’s eye,
\nSheep and shepherds, trees and crooks,
\nIn the picture story-books.<\/p>\n

We may see how all things are,
\nSeas and cities, near and far,
\nAnd the flying fairies’ looks,
\nIn the picture story-books.<\/p>\n

How am I to sing your praise,
\nHappy chimney-corner days,
\nSitting safe in nursery nooks,
\nReading picture story-books?<\/p>\n

\n

The Snow Storm<\/h4>\n

by Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/em><\/p>\n

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
\nArrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields,
\nSeems nowhere to alight: the whited air
\nHides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,
\nAnd veils the farmhouse at the garden’s end.
\nThe sled and traveler stopped, the courier’s feet
\nDelayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit
\nAround the radiant fireplace, enclosed
\nIn a tumultuous privacy of storm.<\/p>\n

Come see the north wind’s masonry.
\nOut of an unseen quarry evermore
\nFurnished with tile, the fierce artificer
\nCurves his white bastions with projected roof
\nRound every windward stake, or tree, or door.
\nSpeeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work
\nSo fanciful, so savage, nought cares he
\nFor number or proportion. Mockingly,
\nOn coop or kennel he hangs Parian wreaths;
\nA swan-like form invests the hidden thorn;
\nFills up the farmer’s lane from wall to wall,
\nMaugre the farmer’s sighs; and, at the gate,
\nA tapering turret overtops the work.
\nAnd when his hours are numbered, and the world
\nIs all his own, retiring, as he were not,
\nLeaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art
\nTo mimic in slow structures, stone by stone,
\nBuilt in an age, the mad wind’s night-work,
\nThe frolic architecture of the snow.<\/p>\n

\n

The Darkling Thrush<\/h4>\n

by Thomas Hardy<\/em><\/p>\n

I leant upon a coppice gate
\nWhen Frost was spectre-gray,
\nAnd Winter’s dregs made desolate
\nThe weakening eye of day.
\nThe tangled bine-stems scored the sky
\nLike strings of broken lyres,
\nAnd all mankind that haunted nigh
\nHad sought their household fires.<\/p>\n

The land’s sharp features seemed to be
\nThe Century’s corpse outleant,
\nHis crypt the cloudy canopy,
\nThe wind his death-lament.
\nThe ancient pulse of germ and birth
\nWas shrunken hard and dry,
\nAnd every spirit upon earth
\nSeemed fervourless as I.<\/p>\n

At once a voice arose among
\nThe bleak twigs overhead
\nIn a full-hearted evensong
\nOf joy illimited;
\nAn aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
\nIn blast-beruffled plume,
\nHad chosen thus to fling his soul
\nUpon the growing gloom.<\/p>\n

So little cause for carolings
\nOf such ecstatic sound
\nWas written on terrestrial things
\nAfar or nigh around,
\nThat I could think there trembled through
\nHis happy good-night air
\nSome blessed Hope, whereof he knew
\nAnd I was unaware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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