โ€œWinter Treesโ€ by William Carlos Williams

The poem presented in this post first appeared in Williamsโ€™ book titled โ€œSour Grapes: A Book of Poemsโ€, published in 1921. Like many other of his works, itโ€™s wonderfully simple and minimalist: the poet uses an extremely common image only to transform it into something delightfully rich and filled with meaning.

โ€œBeautiful Snowโ€ by John Whittaker Watson

John Whittaker Watson was a 19th century poet and journalist from New York. The author of many serials, poems and short stories published in various magazines, today he is probably best known for his poem โ€œBeautiful Snow.โ€ It is found in the collection of poems by the same title, published in Philadelphia in 1871.