Two lovers sit in a shadowy park, Amid a litter of fallen leaves. The air is still and cool and dark, As two lovers sit in a park, Amid the mouldering autumn leaves. The city thunders against the dark, Out there beyond the fallen leaves; Jarring night-caravans embark: The night her robe of darkness weaves Out of many and many and many a spark Smouldering above the fallen leaves. Two lovers sit in a shadowy park: They heed not the city which rages and grieves They mark not the menacing mocking dark, Nor the grey vapour over the leaves. Love laughs triumphantly in the dark Amid the sodden, rotten leaves. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THEN AND NOW by CECIL DAY LEWIS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. SIBLEY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS WALT WHITMAN by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE LITTLE BEACH BIRD by RICHARD HENRY DANA (1787-1879) TO A SQUIRREL AT KYLE-NA-NO by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |