“Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
On the Power of Sound, xii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”
— Virginia Woolf, book Jacob's Room
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