Citations:wintertide

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English citations of wintertide

  1. (archaic) Wintertime.
    • 1936, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “Diffugere Nives [translation of Horace, Odes, IV.vii]”, in More Poems, London: Jonathan Cape, →OCLC, V, lines 9–12:
      Thaw follows frost; hard on the heel of spring / Treads summer sure to die, for hard on hers / Comes autumn with his apples scattering; / Then back to wintertide, when nothing stirs.
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Citations:wintertide&oldid=75905741"