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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LATE AUTUMN, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poet's Biography First Line: October, - and the skies are cool and grey Last Line: His perfect harvesting; he sleeps at ease. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Autumn; Decay; Harvest; October; Seasons; Fall; Rot; Decadence | |||
October,and the skies are cool and grey O'er stubbles emptied of their latest sheaf, Bare meadow, and the slowly falling leaf. The dignity of woods in rich decay Accords full well with this majestic grief That clothes our solemn purple hills to-day, Whose afternoon is hush'd, and wintry brief. Only a robin sings from any spray. And night sends up her pale cold moon, and spills White mist around the hollows of the hills, Phantom of firth or lake; the peasant sees His cot and stackyard, with the homestead trees, In-islanded; but no vain terror thrills His perfect harvesting; he sleeps at ease. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PUT BACK THE DARK by MARVIN BELL PUTREFACTION by CHARLES BUKOWSKI WHAT COULD HAPPEN by DORIANNE LAUX SURFACE AND STRUCTURE: BONAVENTURE HOTEL, LOS ANGELES by KAREN SWENSON SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL PROCESSES: ODE TO ROT by JOHN UPDIKE |
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