The Theme of Winter Songs Art Poetry Stories Symbolism Films "Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim thy growth, to be resolved to earth again. And, lost each human trace, surrendering up thine individual being, shalt thou go to mix forever with the elements, to be a brother to the insensible rock and to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain turns with his share and treads upon. The oak shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mold." - William Cullen Bryant "The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty. It fell and fell, lacing day and night together in a milky haze, making everything quieter as it fell, so that winter seemed to partake of religion in a way no other season did, hushed, solemn." - Patricia Hampl   Current challenge * FAQ * Rules * Story archives * Contact us * Home

 

Songs of Winter Christmas Carols Christmas Hymns and Carols Note: This may be the only hymn site in existence that doesn't blare midi-organ music at you as the page opens More Modern Christmas Songs Love Song Lyrics Winter Lady - Leonard Cohen Winter - Tori Amos I Believe in Father Christmas - Emerson Lake and Palmer Happy Christmas (War is Over) - John Lennon Dead Winter Dead - Savatage Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses The Girl with April in her Eyes - Chris Deburgh Marian Lyrics - Sisters of Mercy Full of Grace - Sarah McLachlan Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow - Nick Cave The Last Remaining Light - Audioslave Snow - Grey Eye Glances Hazy Shade of Winter - Simon and Garfunkel Hindsight - Mercedes Lackey The Hollow Hills - Bauhaus Meet Murder My Angel - Soft Cell Refractions - Bobbie Gentry A Long December - Counting Crows Recollection - Bobbie Gentry Dirty Little Secret - Sarah McLachlan Song for A Winter's Night - Sarah McLachlan Ice - Sarah McLachlan I am Stretched on Your Grave - Sinead O'Connor My Skin - Natalie Merchant Under the Ice - Kate Bush Young, Young Man - Madabo The Rose - Bette Midler   "In the bleak midwinter frosty wind made moan. Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone. Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow. In the bleak midwinter, long ago." - Christina Rossetti * back *

 

Winter art Currier & Ives - Winter Scenes Currier & Ives - More Winter Scenes Snow Flakes More Snow Flakes The Magpie - Claude Monet The Death of the Grave-Digger - Carlos Schwabe Winter - Margaret Macdonald The Seasons: Winter - Alfons Mucha Abbey in the Oakwood - Casper David Friedrich The Fairy of the Snow - Ida Rentoule Outhwaite Winter - Edouard Bisson Polar Sea - Casper David Friedrich A Dream of Christmas Eve - George Hitchcock Montagnes Paysage de Reve - Lucien Levy-Dhurmer Nativity - Sir Edward Burne-Jones Children Sleighing - Franz von Stuck Silence - Lucien Levy-Dhurmer The Angel of Death - Simeon Solomon Night - Edward Robert Hughes   "The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size." - Gertrude S. Wister *back*

 

Winter Poems Winter Poems by Canadian Children Celtic Mid-winter Poetry Silly Valentine's Day poems Lionheart Searchable Database of Love Poems A Winter Eden - Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost Birches - Robert Frost Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind - Shakespeare Winter in my Room - Emily Dickinson The Snowman - Wallace Stevens River - Joni Mitchell Frost at Midnight - Samuel Taylor Coleridge I Have a Rendezvous with Death - Alan Seeger Remember - Christina Georgina Rossetti The Bridge of Sighs - Thomas Hood 'Twas the Night Before Christmas - Author in Question "At Christmas I no more desire a rose than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows." - William Shakespeare   *back*

 

Winter Stories A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens The Snow Queen - Hans Christian Anderson The Little Match Girl - Hans Christian Anderson The Origin of Light - Inuit Tale The Gift of the Magi - O. Henry Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare The Long Winter - Slavey Tale The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper The Winter of Enchantement - Victoria Walker The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula LeGuin Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin The Box of Delights - John Masefield Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) - Savatage, Dead Winter Dead "In the sheltered heart of the clumps, last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that mutter with the passage of the wind, the talk of old women warning the green generation of what they too must come to when the sap runs back." - Jacquetta Hawkes *back*

 

Winter Symbolism The Wild Hunt - European Mythology December - English Folk Traditions January - English Folk Traditions February - English Folk Traditions Christmas & New Years - English Folk Traditions Hanukkah - Jewish Holiday Winter Solstice - Slavic Tradition Bodhi Day - Buddhist Holiday Nirvana Day - Buddhist Tradition Basque Winter Traditions Overview of Saturnalia - Roman Tradition Kwanzaa - African-American Celebration "the snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches." - e. e. cummings *back*

 

Films with a Winter feel Groundhog Day National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation White Christmas It's a Wonderful Life The Sixth Sense Ghost Babette's Feast Legend The Nutcracker The Lion in Winter One True Thing Cabaret Bram Stoker's Dracula "Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears, or those other animals that slow down and almost die in the cold season. Let it be the way it is. The magic is there in its power." - Henry Mitchell *back*