To the thawing wind

Come with rain, O loud Southwester!
Bring the singer, bring the nester;
Give the buried flower a dream;
Make the settled snow-bank steam;
Find the brown beneath the white;
But whate'er you do to-night,
Bathe my window, make it flow,
Melt it as the ices go;
Melt the glass and leave the sticks
Like a hermit's crucifix;
Burst into my narrow stall;
Swing the picture on the wall;
Run the rattling pages o'er;
Scatter poems on the floor;
Turn the poet out of door.

by Robert Frost (1874-1963) , "To the thawing wind", from A Boy's Will, published 1913

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by John Woods Duke (1899-1984) , "To the thawing wind"
by Edward Gregson (1945-) , "To the thawing wind", 1965, first performed 1980 [soprano or tenor and piano], from Five Songs of Innocence and Experience, no. 2.
by John Mitchell (1941-) , "To the thawing wind", op. 48 no. 1 (1982) [mezzo-soprano, cello, and piano], from Five Poems by Robert Frost, no. 1.

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