Dun shades quiver down the lone long fallow, And the scared night shudders at the brown owl's cry; The bleak reeds rattle as the winds whirl by, And frayed leaves flutter through the clumped shrubs callow. Chill dews clinging on the low cold mallow Make a steel-keen shimmer where the spent stems lie; Dun shades quiver down the lone long fallow, And the scared night shudders at the brown owl's cry. Pale stars peering through the clouds' curled shallow Make a thin still flicker in a foul round sky; Black damp shadows through the hushed air fly; The lewd gloom wakens to a moon-sad sallow, Dun shades quiver down the lone long fallow. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS [MAY 9, 1775] by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HOMAGE TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM by WILLIAM EMPSON THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES; THE 10TH SATIRE OF JUVENAL, IMITATED by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) IF THE POETS HAD FEARED THE ADVERTISERS by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS PREFACE TO ERINNA'S POEMS by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS TO SLEEP, WHEN SICK OF A FEVER by PHILIP AYRES |