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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
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!
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