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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MAPLE AND SUMACH, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maple and sumach down this autumn ride Last Line: Speak in me now for all who are to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Autumn; Environment; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation | |||
Maple and sumach down this autumn ride -- Look, in what scarlet character they speak! For this their russet and rejoicing week Trees spend a year of sunsets on their pride. You leaves drenched with the lifeblood of the year -- What flamingo dawns have wavered from the east, What eves have crimsoned to their toppling crest To give the fame and transience that you wear! Leaf-low he shall lie soon: but no such blaze Briefly can cheer man's ashen, harsh decline; His fall is short of pride, he bleeds within And paler creeps to the dead end of his days. O light's abandon and the fire-crest sky Speak in me now for all who are to die! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BLACK NIKES by HARRYETTE MULLEN ISLE OF MULL, SCOTLAND by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE SABBATH, 1985, VI by WENDELL BERRY PLANTING TREES by WENDELL BERRY THE OLD ELM TREE BY THE RIVER by WENDELL BERRY |
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