<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=407864" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Calendar of Sonnets: February</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white; <br>And reigns the winter's pregnant silence still; <br>No sign of spring, save that the catkins fill, <br>And willow stems grow daily red and bright. <br>These are days when ancients held a rite <br>Of expiation for the old year's ill, <br>And prayer to purify the new year's will: <br>Fit days, ere yet the spring rains blur the sight, <br>Ere yet the bounding blood grows hot with haste, <br>And dreaming thoughts grow heavy with a greed <br>The ardent summer's joy to have and taste; <br>Fit days, to give to last year's losses heed, <br>To recon clear the new life's sterner need; <br>Fit days, for Feast of Expiation placed!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Helen+Hunt+Jackson">Helen Hunt Jackson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=407864" data-title="A Calendar of Sonnets: February de Helen Hunt Jackson" data-description="Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white; And reigns the winter's pregnant silence still; No sign of spring, save that the catkins fill, And willow stems grow daily red and bright. These are days when ancients held a rite Of expiati..."></div> </div> </div>

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