A Glee for Winter

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A Glee for Winter was written by a British poet Alfred Domett. A story of a person lamenting on the snowy, icy, and chilly season of winter. People who experience these rain and snow will never be happy but for some it is pure joy on their part. This two-stanza poem is apparently a message for all mankind that winter is symbolized for hurdles. That winter will pass away and everyone will be glad for the coming of the rest of the seasons. Life is a hurdle itself, we all have our ups and downs and it is up to us on how we can cope up with anything that is thrown to us. Alfred Domett, CMG was a British colonial legislator and poet. He was the fourth Premier of New Zealand. Domett was born in Camberwell Grove, Surrey. He is the son of Nathaniel Domett, a ship-owner. He enrolled at St John's College, Cambridge, but did not continue his studies at the university. He attended at the Middle Temple and was called to the bar to complete the Bar Professional Training. Domett wrote one or two collections of poetry and wrote plenty of poems to Blackwood's Magazine, like A Christmas Hymn (in Christmas Poetry and Hymn Collection), which were considered as captivating. He was called to the bar, but for a decade he lived with comfort in London, where he became close friends with Robert Browning, whose poem Waring his friend was the theme. A historical record of the relationship of the two friends was materialized in The Contemporary Review by William H. Griffin. Some of his books of poetry which include Ranolf and Amohia, a South Sea Day Dream, about Māori life, is the most famous, and Flotsam and Jetsam are all dedicated to Browning. His great nephew Ernest Dowson was a poet from the Decadent Movement of the 19th century, an artistic and literary movement in the Western part of Europe.