When winter comes, the world holds its breath. Snow drapes the earth in silence, and light softens like a secret kept close.

Adirondacks writer and poet George Cassidy Payne shares a collection of winter-themed poems to add color to the cold.

Sure, you know of Willa Cather. You know her as the author of such American novels as “My Ántonia,” “O Pioneers,” and “Death Comes for the Archbishop.” But, as noted when her poem “Fides, Spes” ...

In the one hundred fifty-four sonnets of William Shakespeare (1564–1616), the seasons, invoked as metaphors for lovers’ joys and sorrows, turn up again and again, like pages in a calendar. “Shall I ...

Winter Poetus by Favorite American Poets. With Illustrations. Boston : Fields, Osgood, & Co. A Child’s Dream of a Star. By CHARLES DICKENS. With Illustrations by ...

“Those Winter Sundays” is a poem that captures in 14 lines the enormous struggle against the cold, write Patrick B. Whalen. STEVEN KRIEMADIS / Getty Images/iStockphoto Winter in Detroit is a miniature ...

At the base of Grand Mesa, on the eastern edge of Palisade, where the peaches grow and generous slopes of vineyards overflow into the valley, we awoke to our first snow on the last Saturday of ...

Sometimes things live up to their name. Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ...

Shania Twain is a proud Canadian, sharing stories of her childhood in From This Moment On. That includes one hilarious and “beautifully well-written” poem that would get her and her siblings through ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. --A Golden Valley teenager is a national champion - because of the powerful way she chooses her words. Armstrong High School senior Stella Wright put together a poem about ...