A Year's Windfalls
The year moves from January snow through spring blossoms and summer roses to autumn fruit and falling leaves, then returns to frost and snow in December. The speaker urges shelter and food for a cold robin and wishes sailors safe at home.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Nature Poetry, Seasonal Poetry · 787 words
First lines
On the wind of January / Down flits the snow, / Travelling from the frozen North / As cold as it can blow. / Poor robin redbreast, / Look where he comes; / Let him in to feel your fire, / And toss him of your crumbs.
On the wind in February / Snow-flakes float still, / Half inclined to turn to rain, / Nipping, dripping, chill. / Then the thaws swell the streams, / And swollen rivers swell the sea: -- / If the winter ever ends / How pleasant it will be.
Genres
- Nature Poetry — The stanzas describe snow, nesting birds, orchard blossoms, roses, rough seas and falling leaves.
- Seasonal Poetry — Twelve stanzas follow the months in order, tracing thaw, flowering, fruitfall and the return of frost.
Tags
seasons · wind · snow · flowers · falling fruit · autumn leaves
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Nature Poetry, Seasonal Poetry
- Length: 787 words
- Structure: 1 section, 12 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)
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