19th-Century American Poetry

DPF / Bryant

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For frozen mist and wavering flakes, from poetryfoundation.org.

from The Snow-Shower / by William Cullen Bryant

Here delicate snow-stars, out of the cloud,
   Come floating downward in airy play,
Like spangles dropped from the glistening crowd
   That whiten by night the milky way

DPF / Taylor

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For the millions of them, from poetryfoundation.org.

from Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star / by Ann Taylor (1783–1824 )

TWINKLE, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are !
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.

DPF / Holmes

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For firmament and fire, from poetryfoundation.org and 19th-Century American Poetry.

from The Flâneur / by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

I leave my mortal self below,
As up the star-lit stairs I climb,
And still the widening view reveals
In endless rounds the circling wheels
That build the horologe of time.