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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ART AND LIFE, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poet's Biography
First Line: When autumn comes, my orchard trees alone
Last Line: While I, not less an-hungered, gaze and sing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists
First Line: When autumn comes, my orchard trees alone
Last Line: While I, not less an-hungered, gaze and sing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists
WHEN autumn comes, my orchard trees alone,
Shall bear no fruit to deck the reddening year --
When apple gatherers climb the branches sere
Only on mine no harvest shall be grown.
For when the pearly blossom first was blown,
I filled my hands with delicate buds and dear,
I dipped them in thine icy waters clear,
O well of Art! and turned them all to stone.
Therefore, when winter comes, I shall not eat
Of mellow apples such as others prize:
I shall go hungry in a magic spring! --
All round my head and bright before mine eyes
The barren, strange, eternal blossoms meet,
While I, not less an-hungered, gaze and sing.
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