I see you now, yes barely, far away You round the bend and blend with amber shades Of autumn, fast growing grey. The clouds are rolling up from west To blot out all of you As now in brilliant shades You ride the sunset crest. The lustrous fangs of fire top mountains Seem they would engulf you To burn, as my heart strains That I might call you back. And all of no avail as now The leaves are whirling round To hide you and to take you Away to your grave with them. But now the world is cold and bare And all that lived has died And you are dead and gone 'neath snows of white That came to hide your angel's flight. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SIXTEEN DEAD MEN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS ON THE EXPECTED GENERAL RISING OF THE FRENCH NATION IN 1792 by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD BY THE SEA by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI PICTURESQUE; A FRAGMENT by JOHN AIKIN THE LEPRECAUN, OR THE FAIRY SHOEMAKER by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM |