Where are they? I have never missed before The whole wide kingdom of the cherishing leaves, Or waft, or drifted into golden heaves With all their scents, or dead upon the floor! We left at sundown; but shall see no more The air a film of multitudinous leaves; For, lo, a sudden ravishing bereaves The air that threaded them, the earth that bore! And now of all their gorgeous, solemn realms No sign: of unseen arrows came their fall; They are not. Clematis and ivy curl Their wavering tissues on the river wall - Nothing afloat: the river a dark pearl; The jagged acacia and the misted elms. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GILLYFLOWER OF GOLD by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) THE LETTER; EDWARD ROWLAND SILL, DIED FEBRUARY 27, 1887 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH TO A DISCIPLE OF WILLIAM MORRIS by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT A LEAVE-TAKING: 2 by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE THE LAMENT OF LAMB'S CONDUIT by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB FOUR SONGS BY WAY OF CHORUS TO A PLAY: 1. OF JEALOUSY. A DIALOGUE by THOMAS CAREW |