But pleasures are like poppies spread--
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed;
Or like snow falls in the river--
A moment white...then melts forever.
--Robert Burns 1759-1796

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882














Not snow, no, not rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.
--Herodotus c . 485 B.C.


















The hiss was becoming a roar--the whole world was a vast, moving screen of snow--but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.
--Conrad Aiken 1889-1973 Silent Snow, Secret Snow (1932)

Olympus, where they say there is an abode of the gods, ever unchanging: it is neither shaken by winds nor ever wet with rain, nor does snow come near it; but clear weather spreads cloudless about it, and a white radiance stretches above it.
--Homer c. 700 B.C.

































The snow had begun in the gloaming,
And busily in the night
Had been heaping field and highway
With a silence deep and white.
--James Russell Lowell 1819-1891














Probable nor'east to sou'west winds, varying to the southard and westard and eastard with points between; high and low barometer, sweeping around from place to place; probable areas of rain, snow, hail, and drought, succeeded or preceded by earthquakes with thunder and lighting.
--Mark Twain Dec. 22 1876



















Tread lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies grow.
--Oscar Wilde 1854-1900

As I in hoary winter night stood shivering in the snow,
Surprised I was with sudden heat, which made my heart to glow.
And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near,
A pretty babe all burning bright did in the air appear.
--Robert Southwell c. 1561-1595