Beginning "The sun that brief December day / Rose cheerless over hills of gray," this poem describes characters like a "not unfeared, half-welcome guest" and "the master of the village school," who tell stories around a fireplace.
The speaker of this poem implores the "Angel of the backward look" to clasp "the brazen covers of thy book" which hides the "spectral past." Its speaker wonders "What mattered in the sufferer's sight / The Quaker matron's inward light / The Doctor's mail of Calvin's creed?" and warns "melt not in an acid sect / The Christian pearl of charity." Several characters in this poem create a tunnel they compare to "Aladdin's wondrous cave" after waking up to look "upon a world unknown." Beginning "The sun that brief December day / Rose cheerless over hills of gray," this poem describes characters like a "not unfeared, half-welcome guest" and "the master of the village school," who tell stories around a fireplace. First published in 1866 with the subtitle "A Winter Idyll," for 10 points, name this John Greenleaf Whittier poem about a rural blizzard.
The speaker of this poem implores the "Angel of the backward look" to clasp "the brazen covers of thy book" which hides the "spectral past.
"Snow-Bound"