Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
Winter Woods
By George Cooper (1840–1927)[Born in New York, N. Y., 1840. Died, 1927.]
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On a chilly and ashen sky;
Puffs of powdery snow displaced
When the winds go by.
They are crooning a tale of woe,
And my heart is wooed to share
The sadness of the snow.
Save the click of a twig that breaks;
In these dim white solitudes,
Nothing living wakes;—
Which has never a song to sing,—
To my heart a whispered word
And a dream of spring!
The Atlantic Monthly. 1870.