Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AUTUMN WISDOM, by CALE YOUNG RICE


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First Line: Wisdom is on me
Last Line: Of sinking stars. ...
Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Moon; Seasons; Wisdom; Fall


Wisdom is on me,
Breathed from a golden moon that Autumn ripens
The chill air is empty of all passion.
The streets are lanes where love has been;
Dead leaves cover them.

The wind's sigh is old;
No other voice has the night, save the owl's
In the sycamore of my neighbor
Between me and the moon
There is no call of far things or wild things,
For the urge of the year is spent,
Or changed to resignation.

I do not think of Helen of Troy,
Of Juliet's balcony -- and joy,
But of Saint John on Patmos...
Of Antoninus tenderly mystic
Toward a mad Universe...
Of sinking stars. ...





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