Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FULFILLMENT, by ALBERT VANN FOWLER


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FULFILLMENT, by                    
First Line: Tranquility is in these autumn days
Last Line: In growing corn and fields of rippled gold.
Subject(s): Autumn; Harvest; Seasons; Fall


Tranquility is in these autumn days
When the ripe leaves fall noiseless to the ground
And all the earth reclines without a sound.
Color and line are softened by the haze
Through which on stubble fields the sifting rays
Of sunlight mellow what the frost has browned.
A drowsy warmth and deep content surround
The barns, and a last lonely cricket plays.
This is the year's fulfillment, these rich hours
Between the urgent heat and the long cold.
How still and shorn of strength seem all the powers
Of seed and warmth and rain; how very old
The days of labor seem when earth's heart flowers
In growing corn and fields of rippled gold.





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