I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know, Where the tree-tops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow.

-Berlin, Irving originally Israel Baline
  'I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas', in the film Holiday Inn.

Behold, thoudesiresttruth intheinward parts: and inthe hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 51:6^7.

   Come now, and let us reason together, saith the L: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah1:18.

And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with golden girdle. His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. And when I saw him, I fell as his feet as dead.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation1:13^17.

Asperges me hyssopo, et mundabor; lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor. You will sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be made clean; you will wash me and I shall be made whiter than snow.

-Bible (Vulgate)
Psalm 50:9 (Psalm 51:7  Authorized Version).

Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Experience,'Ah! Sunflower'.

Cold inthe earthöand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime's all-serving wave?

-Bronte«  , EmilyJane
  'Remembrance', in Poems by Currer, Ellis and  Acton Bell.

John Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent; Your locks were like the raven, Your bonie brow was brent; But now your brow is beld, John, Your locks are like the snaw; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo. Burns

-Burns, Robert
  'John  Anderson my  Jo', stanza1. 1788  'Auld Lang Syne', stanza1. This is the most familiar version of an older, traditional song, reworked by Burns.

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment whiteöthen melts for ever.

-Burns, Robert
  'Tam o' Shanter.  A  Tale'.

See amid the winter's snow, Born for us on earth below, See, the Lamb of God appears, Promised from eternal years! Hail thou ever-blesse'  d morn! Hail, redemption's happy dawn! Sing through all Jerusalem: Christ is born in Bethlehem!

-Caswall, Edward
  'See  Amid the Winter's Snow'.

   A pink bonbon stuffed with snow.

-Debray, Regis
  Of the music of Edvard Grieg. Gil Blas.

Snow has begun to fall on the guilty secrets of Europe.

-Dunn, Douglas Eaglesham
  'The Deserter'.

His soul swooned slowlyas he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descentoftheir lastend, uponall theliving and the dead.

-Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius
  Dubliners,'The Dead'.

The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed Ayouth, who bore,'mid snow and ice, A banner with a strange device, Excelsior!

-Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  'Excelsior'.

Nuit blanche de gla c° ons et de neige cruelle! White night of icicles and bitter snow!

-Mallarme¤  , Ste¤  phane
  Poe¤  sies, He¤  rodiade,'La Nourrice'.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow, Gave the lustre of midday to objects below, When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer.

-Moore, Clement
  The Night Before Christmas.

Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.

-Nemerov, Howard
  New Poems,'The View from an  Attic Window'.

In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter, Long ago.

-Rossetti, Christina Georgina
  'Mid-Winter'.

  Butforme, theAlps and their peoplewerealikebeautiful in their snow, and their humanity; and I wanted, neither for them nor myself, sight of any thrones in heaven but the rocks, or of any spirits in heaven but the clouds.

-Ruskin,John
^3  The Stones ofVenice, vol.i, ch.2.

Hidden in wonder and snow, or sudden with summer, This land stares at the sun in a huge silence Endlessly repeating something we cannot hear. Inarticulate, arctic, Not written on by history, emptyas paper, It leans away from the world with songs in its lakes Older than love, and lost in the miles. 722

-Scott, F(rancis) R(eginald)
  Of Canada.'Laurentian Shield'.