On a clear winter's evening The crescent moon And the round squirrels' nest In the bare oak Are equal planets.

From Living Things by Anne Porter, published by Zoland Books, an imprint of Steerforth Press of Hanover, New Hampshire. Copyright © 2006 by Anne Porter. All rights reserved.

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Poems by This Author

A List of Praises by Anne Porter Give praise With psalms that tell the trees to sing A Short Testament by Anne Porter Whatever harm I may have done Noël by Anne Porter When snow is shaken

Further Reading

Related Poems Twilights, V by Conrad Aiken Poems About Winter As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [Blow, blow, thou winter wind] by William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, Scene 2 [Winter] by William Shakespeare Snow-Bound [The sun that brief December day] by John Greenleaf Whittier A Winter Without Snow by J. D. McClatchy An Old Man's Winter Night by Robert Frost Approach of Winter by William Carlos Williams Fishing in Winter by Ralph Burns Footprint on Your Heart by Gary Lenhart Horoscope by Maureen N. McLane How like a winter hath my absence been (Sonnet 97) by William Shakespeare In drear nighted December by John Keats January by Helen Hunt Jackson Now Winter Nights Enlarge by Thomas Campion On Snow by James Parton Picture-books in Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson Places [III. Winter Sun] by Sara Teasdale Return to Winter by Elaine Terranova Spellbound by Emily Brontė spring love noise and all [excerpt] by David Antin Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson The Visionary by Emily Brontė There's a certain Slant of light (258) by Emily Dickinson To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman Toward the Winter Solstice by Timothy Steele Triad by Adelaide Crapsey Untitled [Toward night] by Kevin Goodan Why is the Color of Snow? by Brenda Shaughnessy Winter by Walter De La Mare Winter Heavens by George Meredith Winter is good - his Hoar Delights (1316) by Emily Dickinson Winter Morning by William Jay Smith Winter Sleep by Edith Matilda Thomas Winter Study by Mark Wunderlich Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams Winter-Time by Robert Louis Stevenson Winter: My Secret. by Christina Rossetti