Snow

(bit late now..) here's one of the sets of words I was trying to find from earlier in the month

Everyday it snows an inch or two,
Muting the music in the pines.
Old music.

Snow holds back the dawn-
an extra minute of lying here
while the self sleeps on.

again from Twichell's Snow Watcher.
And for a slightly different comment, here's Ivor Gurney's Sleep: