Winter Sonnet, Op. 31

Coil! Coil! Snake in the night,
Winter has come and stolen the light!
Coil! Coil! Snake in the cold,
Sleep and rest till Winter grows old!
Check your dreams and hold your heart;
Hold it tightly in your handless guard;
Shiver and shiver, and a virulent hiss,
Spit out to ward off His alluring kiss!
Dream! Dream! Of forges and of serpent coils,
Dream of heat, and of blood that boils,
And of things of love and things loathsome,
With peaceful dreams Summer sooner comes!