IN the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan;
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.
Lines from “In the Bleak Midwinter” by Christina G. Rossetti.
First published in Scribner’s Monthly as part of her poem called “A Christmas Carol,” January 1872.
Photo by Rick Stachura. The Peninsula Hotel. December 22, 2021.