One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow. Wallace Stevens
I weep for Adonais - he is dead! O, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head! Percy Bysshe Shelley
When all my five and country senses see, The fingers will forget green thumbs and mark How, through the halfmoon's vegetable eye, Husk of young stars and handfull zodiac, Love in the frost is pared and wintered by. Dylan Thomas
The frost drives the pig home. Finnish Proverb
The frost hurts not weeds. Dutch Proverb
The frost will bring the pig home. American Proverb