The season's turn now brings autumnal days Whose sunsets subtly tint, through purpled haze, October skies; and from the earth there strays The evening chill. The amber twilight dims in dusk's dull glow, While spectered shadows flutter from the row Of leafless tree-wraiths silhouetted low Upon the hill. The deepening darkness shrouds the lines which fade Into the mist that veils, in eery shade, The browning blackness; and afar, is made The homing call. An awesome silence fills the gloaming air, A requiem from souls ... a farewell prayer . . . To summer's wane; and then, quite unaware, We sense the fall. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BLACK SAMSON OF BRANDYWINE by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR GOOD AND BAD LUCK by HEINRICH HEINE A SUMMER NIGHT by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL CHINA 1937 by LAURA FRANCES ALEXANDER EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 33. LOVE KEEPS ALL THINGS IN ORDER by PHILIP AYRES |