Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Ampton | | Written at Ampton, Suffolk | | Henry Alford (1810–1871) |
| | | WELCOME, stern Winter, though thy brows are bound | |
| With no fresh flowers, and ditties none thou hast | |
| But the wild music of the sweeping blast; | |
| Welcome this chilly wind that snatches round | |
| The brown leaves in quaint eddies; we have long | 5 |
| Panted in wearying heat; skies always bright, | |
| And dull return of never-clouded light, | |
| Sort not with hearts that gather food for song. | |
| Rather, dear Winter, I would forth with thee, | |
| Watching thee disattire the earth; and roam | 10 |
| On the bleak heaths that stretch about my home, | |
| Till round the flat horizon I can see | |
| The purple frost-belt; then to fireside-chair, | |
| And sweetest labor of poetic care. | | | | |
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