Autores:
  • Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white;
    And reigns the winter's pregnant silence still;
    No sign of spring, save that the catkins fill,
    And willow stems grow daily red and bright.
    These are days when ancients held a rite
    Of expiation for the old year's ill,
    And prayer to purify the new year's will.

    Helen Hunt Jackson (1891). “A Calendar of Sonnets”, p.4, Library of Alexandria