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		Poems about Snow
		Snow-Bound [The sun that brief December day] by John Greenleaf Whittier

		Balance by Adam Zagajewski

		Cherries in the Snow by Richard Jones

		Dust of Snow by Robert Frost

		Heavy Snowfall in A Year Gone Past by Laura Jensen

		How We Found Our Way by Matthew Thorburn

		Humoresque by Edna St. Vincent Millay

		Iowa by Kate Northrop

		It sifts from Leaden Sieves - (311) by Emily Dickinson

		London Snow by Robert Bridges

		On Snow by James Parton

		Snow by Naomi Shihab Nye

		Snow Song by Frank Dempster Sherman

		Snow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

		Snowfall in G Minor by Marianne Boruch

		Spring Snow by Arthur Sze

		The Snow Fairy by Claude McKay

		The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens

		The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson

		The Snowdrop by Anna Bunston De Bary

		The Snowfall Is So Silent by Miguel de Unamuno

		Why is the Color of Snow? by Brenda Shaughnessy

Snowman
by Gu Cheng translated by Joseph R. Allen

I built a snowman At your front door To stand in my stead, waiting there In all its stupidity Then you buried your lollipop Deep into its snowy heart Saying this little sweetness Would perk it up The snowman did not smile Did not make a sound And then the bright spring sun Melted him away... Where is he now? Where is that candied heart? A bee buzzes Beside the small puddle of tears

Copyright © 2005 by Gu Cheng and Joseph R. Allen. From Sea of Dreams: The Selected Writings of Gu Cheng. Reprinted with permission of New Directions Press.