It’s January 30. This has been a difficult winter. I know I’m not the only one out there who is ready for Old Man Winter to head back home. I’m not sure if it was the two inches of unexpected snow I woke up to the other morning, the howling Oklahoma wind or the forecasted “winter storm” on the calendar for next week, but I decided I need something to cheer me.
Enter Emily Dickinson. Many of her poems always have a sense of Spring about them. Then I found a poem she wrote about winter. Enjoy!
Winter is good–his Hoar Delights
Winter is good – his Hoar Delights
Italic flavor yield –
To Intellects inebriate
With Summer, or the World –
Generic as a Quarry
And hearty – as a Rose –
Invited with asperity
But welcome when he goes.
Word by Word 