“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.”

To read the full poem: Poetry Foundation.

Christina Georgina Rossetti [1830-1894]

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett.
Published by Little, Brown and Company. 1955. Pages 649-650.