wintertide

plural wintertides

1. archaicliterarywintertime

   Shut out the flower-time, / Sunbeam and shower-time; / Make way for our time, / The winter-tide.

   1867 February 16, Algernon C[harles] Swinburne, “Child's Song in Winter”, in Eliakim Littell, editor, Littell's Living Age, volume IV, number 46 (4th series; volume XCII, number 1185, from the beginning), Boston, Mass.: Littell and Gay, →OCLC, page 472

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   O winter tide, O winter tide, / Thy coming brings us sadness; / Afar are those we hold most dear, / Here men are strange, and skies are drear; […]

   1891, Robert S. Littell, editor, Littell's Living Age, volume CLXXXVIII, Boston, Mass.: T. H. Carter & Company, →OCLC, page 194

   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.

   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

   […] Figure Skating was actually the very first winter sport included at the summer Olympic games in London 1908. Its wintertide equivalence was eventually introduced in 1924.

   2014 February 6, “Sochi 2014: A Nottingham skater's ice dream”, in Impact: The University of Nottingham's Official Student Magazine, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2014

   So, grab yourself a spot of tea or a boozy hot chocolate, and celebrate the beginning of winter with these wintertide-inspired quotes.

   2014 December 18, Emily Kelley, “14 winter quotes to make the freezing cold weather seem a little less terrible”, in Bustle