Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers, From those brown hills, have melted into spring.”
- Date
- 1846
Meaning of “Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers, From…”
The poem measures bereavement through fifteen winters turning into spring, making seasonal change a visible clock for grief that has lasted across years.
Where does it come from?
“Remembrance,” in Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846); Project Gutenberg #1019. The line belongs to a dramatic lyric voice and is not biographical evidence by itself.
