Winter Songs

And the night shall be filled with music,

And the cares that infest the day,

Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,

And as silently steal away.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Winter Songs

When winter days are cold and drear,

Listen to me, Friend so dear,

Listen well and you will hear

The winter’s sweet sweet music.

Winter’s cold sings spring’s bright tale

A song of the sun and thawing dale

Which comes as promised—without fail

Now can’t you hear that music?

Winter’s hymn is of summer bright

When heat clings even into the night

And children run and fly a kite,

These tunes are in winter’s music.

Winter’s chorus sings autumn days

When fireflies flit and bonfires blaze

And crimson leaves a’falling raise

The melody of winter’s music.

Winter’s ballad is in the wind’s cry

Lifting and falling as days pass by,

Afternoon shadows—the night’s lullaby

Notes of the year’s fairest music.

This book of poems by Helen Steiner Rice includes devotionals written by Elece Hollis.
Try this source for a copy of Elece’s book.

3 thoughts on “Winter Songs”

Cheryl Barker says:

January 25, 2015 at 4:38 pm

Beautiful, Elece — the photo and the verse. Love the roses on the piano keyboard!

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Elece Hollis says:

January 25, 2015 at 5:26 pm

Thanks, Cheryl. I am almost finished with my first classroom photography course. The picture of my piano is one of the fifteen I took for the final project, all manual settings, no flash, and no photo-shopping.

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Kristi Woods says:

March 13, 2015 at 4:12 pm

Your poetry is beautiful, Elece. The photography is as well. Thank you for the warm welcome to FCW.

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