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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
UNSEASONABLE SNOWS, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves have not yet gone; then why do ye come Last Line: While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Snow; Fall | |||
THE leaves have not yet gone; then why do ye come, O white flakes falling from a dusky cloud? But yesterday my garden-plot was proud With uncut sheaves of ripe chrysanthemum. Some trees the winds have stripped; but look on some, 'Neath double load of snow and foliage bowed, Unnatural winter fashioning a shroud For Autumn's burial ere its pulse be numb. Yet Nature plays not an inhuman part: In her, our own, vicissitudes we trace. Do we not cling to our accustomed place, Though journeying Death have beckoned us to start? And faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart! | 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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