Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl

Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl

by John Greenleaf Whittier

A 750-line idyllic poem about a snow-storm from the narrator's childhood. (Summary by Paul Tremblay)

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John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the fireside poets, he...

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