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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FONTAINEBLEAU (AUTUMN), by SARA TEASDALE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Interminable palaces front on the green parterres Last Line: Four centuries of autumns, four centuries of leaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Fontainebleau, France; Seasons; Fall | |||
Interminable palaces front on the green parterres And ghosts of ladies lovely and immoral Glide down the gilded stairs; The high cold corridors are clicking with the heel-taps That long ago were theirs. But in the sunshine, in the vague autumn sunshine The geometric gardens are desolately gay; The crimson and scarlet and rose-red dahlias Are painted like the ladies who used to pass this way With a ringletted monarch, a Henry or a Louis, On a lost October day. The aisles of the garden lead into the forest, The aisles lead into autumn, a damp wind grieves; Ghostly kings are hunting, the boar breaks cover, But the sounds of horse and horn are hushed in falling leaves, Four centuries of autumns, four centuries of leaves. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OUR AUTUMN by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN AN AUTUMN JOY by GEORGE ARNOLD A LEAF FALLS by MARION LOUISE BLISS THE FARMER'S BOY: AUTUMN by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD A LETTER IN OCTOBER by TED KOOSER AUTUMN EVENING by DAVID LEHMAN EVERYTHING THAT ACTS IS ACTUAL by DENISE LEVERTOV |
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