| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | II. A Winter Night | | By Mrs. Elizabeth Clementine Kinney (1810–1889) |
| | | HOW calm, how solemn, how sublime the scene! | |
| The moon in full-orbed glory sails above, | |
| And stars in myriads around her move, | |
| Each looking down with watchful eye serene | |
| On earth, which, in a snowy shroud arrayed, | 5 |
| And still, as if in death’s embrace ’t were laid, | |
| Saddens the spirit with its corpse-like mien; | |
| Yet doth it charm the eye,—its gaze still hold; | |
| Just as the face of one we loved, when cold | |
| And pale and lovely e’en in death ’t is seen, | 10 |
| Will fix the mourner’s eye, though trembling fears | |
| Fill all his heart, and thickly fall his tears. | |
| O, I could watch, till morn should change the sight, | |
| This cold, this beautiful, this mournful winter night! | | | | |
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