Heart of New England

Chapter 29: WINTER SONG

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About This Book

A lyric collection that moves through New England’s seasons, landscapes, and local history, blending pastoral description with folklore, legend, and occasional patriotic and religious reflections. Poems evoke shorelines, orchards, pine woods, and village life while honoring Pilgrim ancestry and the fortitude of pioneer women; other pieces imagine fairies, haunted houses, pirate lore, and convent gardens. Varied forms include children’s verses, contemplative nature lyrics, and occasional odes, united by a regionally rooted voice that balances celebration of place with quiet moral and communal meditation.

WINTER SONG

Because I sang in April
With magic in the air.
Must I be sad and silent now
When winter boughs are bare?

My heart is not a songster
That waits upon the spring,
But while there is a blessèd sky
And friendly earth, I sing!

For evergreen my joy is,
Like any cedar tree;
It makes a tune of ice and snow
And whispers it to me.