Here the vague winds have rest; The forest breathes in sleep, Lifting a quiet breast; It is the hour of rest. How summer glides away! An autumn pallor blooms Upon the cheek of day. Come, lovers, come away! But here, where dead leaves fall Upon the grass, what strains, Languidly musical, Mournfully rise and fall? Light loves that woke with spring This autumn afternoon Beholds meandering, Still, to the strains of spring. Your dancing feet are faint, Lovers: the air recedes Into a sighing plaint, Faint, as your loves are faint. It is the end, the end, The dance of love's decease. Feign no more now, fair friend! It is the end, the end. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CROSS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON GHOSTS OF THE OLD YEAR by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON FIRST BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 11 by THOMAS CAMPION THE CASTLE OF CHILLON by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON THE NYMPH'S REPLY TO THE SHEPHERD by WALTER RALEIGH SEPTEMBER, 1939 by VERA MARY BRITTAIN |