More Than A Winter Breeze

We are still under a wind and wind chill advisory. Strong northwest winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph started blowing last evening, continued through the night and are still blasting this morning. The temperature is 5° and the windchill is -25°. It is definitely not a day to venture outside. Maybe a good day to post a poem about the winter wind.....

Wind and Window Flower by Robert Frost

Lovers, forget your love,
     And list to the love of these,
She a window flower,
     And he a winter breeze.

When the frosty window veil
     Was melted down at noon,
And the cagèd yellow bird
     Hung over her in tune,

He marked her through the pane,
     He could not help but mark,
And only passed her by,
     To come again at dark.

He was a winter wind,
     Concerned with ice and snow,
Dead weeds and unmated birds,
     And little of love could know.

But he sighed upon the sill,
     He gave the sash a shake,
As witness all within
     Who lay that night awake.

Perchance he half prevailed
     To win her for the flight
From the firelit looking-glass
     And warm stove-window light.

But the flower leaned aside
     And thought of naught to say,
And morning found the breeze
     A hundred miles away.