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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINTER COMING, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: O, thou art like an autumn to my days
Last Line: Youth vanished, winter coming -- I and thou!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Winter
First Line: O, thou art like an autumn to my days
Last Line: Youth vanished, winter coming -- I and thou!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Winter
O, thou art like an autumn to my days,
Shining in still, sweet light on lonelier hours
Of yellowing leaves, and well-nigh faded flowers;
In thy dear sight the birds renew their lays,
But with how faint a cheer! how meek their praise
Rememb'ring April gone! -- his crystal showers,
His heav'n-surmounting wind-engirdled towers,
And all the graveness of his childlike ways.
The hours press closer on to winter now;
In misty solitudes brief suns arise;
And all the wonder now hath left my eyes,
And all my heart sinks to remember how
Once, once we loved, we who are grown so wise --
Youth vanished, winter coming -- I and thou!
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