Today’s Poem: Snow-Bound

A universe of sky and snow

Currier and Ives, Winter Morning, 1861 (Springfield Museums)

Snow-Bound [an extract]

by John Greenleaf Whittier

The 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, 
I…