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Topic·Winter✕clear

TV program · Fantasy (TV) · Drama (TV) · Fantasy · Drama

But winter is coming.

Jon Snow

Game of Thrones · 2015

★ 7.2

Play · Comedy (play)

My age is as a lusty winter, Frosty but kindly.

William Shakespeare

As You Like It · 1616

★ 5.6

Novel

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Willa Cather

My Antonia · 1918

★ 3.7

See, Winter comes to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad.

James Thomson

The Seasons: Winter · 1726

★ 3.6

Poem

In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter, Long ago.

Christina Rossetti

1875

★ 3.5

Poem

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes.

Emily Dickinson

1886

★ 2.8

Sonnet · Poem

Winter, which being full of care Makes summer's welcome, thrice more wished, more rare.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609

★ 2.2

Poem

The English winter—ending in July, To recommence in August.

Lord Byron

Don Juan · 1823

★ 2.2

Personal journal

There is always something spiritual about the approach of winter. You retire into your innermost chambers and camp near the small glow you find there.

Paul Klee

★ 1.8

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