Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. About this poem: “On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm” was published in William Wordsworth’s book “The River Duddon” (1820). About William ...

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They are back. Little white heads reaching up from the mulch of autumn leaves under the big cherry tree; snowdrops, harbingers of spring. Wordsworth devoted a charming sonnet to them in 1819. The ...