"Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost."
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"The winter is made and you have to bear it, The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind, For all the thoughts of summer that go with it In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags."
"The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her."
"The snow, the wind, the sun and the sounds of nature, can all be reminders to you that you're an integral part of the natural world."
"I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!"
"Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet; When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then down I'll lie as cold as clay. True love doth pass away!"
"Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee."
"Is not thy home among the flowers?"
"The hushed winds their Sabbath keep."
"If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf"
"What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind."
"Come let us mock at the good That fancied goodness might be gay, And sick of solitude Might proclaim a holiday: Wind shrieked and where are they?"
"I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind, I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had, But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind; I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad."
"While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy."
"When we have blamed the wind we can blame love."
"All the contagion of the south light on you, You shames of Rome! you herd of--boils and plagues Plaster you o'er; that you may be abhorr'd Further than seen, and one infect another Against the wind a mile!"
"Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command."
"The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering day."
"I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol."
"The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main, Seems to cast water on the burning Bear, And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole."