<h1>A Calendar of Sonnets</h1>
<p align="center" class="smallcaps">By</p>
<h2 style="margin-top: 0em">Helen Jackson</h2>
<h2><SPAN href="images/head-jan.png"><ANTIMG width-obs="40%" src="images/head-jan.png" alt="January" /></SPAN></h2>
<p>O winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire,<br/>
What loss is theirs who from thy kingdom turn<br/>
Dismayed, and think thy snow a sculptured urn<br/>
Of death! Far sooner in midsummer tire<br/>
The streams than under ice. June could not hire<br/>
Her roses to forego the strength they learn<br/>
In sleeping on thy breast. No fires can burn<br/>
The bridges thou dost lay where men desire<br/>
In vain to build.<br/>
O Heart, when Love's sun goes<br/>
To northward, and the sounds of singing cease,<br/>
Keep warm by inner fires, and rest in peace.<br/>
Sleep on content, as sleeps the patient rose.<br/>
Walk boldly on the white untrodden snows,<br/>
The winter is the winter's own release.</p>
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