StoryTitle("caps", "Winter") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(125, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down swept the chill wind from the mountain peak,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From the snow five thousand summers old;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On open wold and hilltop bleak,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It had gathered all the cold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And whirled it like sleet on the wanderer's cheek;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It carried a shiver everywhere", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From the unleafed boughs and pastures bare.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The little brook heard it, and built him a roof", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Neath which he could house himself, winter-proof;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All night, by the white stars' frosty gleams,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He groined his arches, and matched his beams;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Slender and clear were his crystal spars", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As the lashes of light that trim the stars:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He sculptured every summer delight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In his halls and chambers, out of sight;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sometimes his tinkling waters slipt", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down through a frost-leaved forest crypt,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Long, sparking aisles of steel-stemmed trees", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bending to counterfeit a breeze;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sometimes a roof no fretwork knew", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But silvery mosses that downward grew;", "") ?>
PagePoem(126, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sometimes it was carved in sharp relief", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With quaint arabesques of ice-fern leaf;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sometimes it was simply smooth and clear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the gladness of heaven to shine through, and here", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He had caught the nodding bulrush tops", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And hung them thickly with diamond drops,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That crystaled the beams of moon and sun,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And made a star of every one:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No mortal builder's most rare device", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Could match this winter palace of ice.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
Attribution("100", "— From Lowell's \"Vision of Sir Launfal\" ") ?>