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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AUTUMN, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poet's Biography First Line: Capricious little poem and sapling rhyme Last Line: These listless leaves take warmer harmonies? Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; September; Fall | |||
CAPRICIOUS little poem and sapling rhyme Grew on the golden hillside of my youth. The stanzas were as crooked and uncouth As early things are wont to be. For time Was pressing and mid-summer's glowing prime Was ever imminent. Mysterious truth Was the warm soil thought sprouted from. Forsooth My songs were stem and filament to climb. But now, the memory of bud and fruit And flower is weariness. This present week In mid-September, wayward wild pursuit Is over; youth fulfilled. How shall they seek Beyond, unless from sunbeams in the skies These listless leaves take warmer harmonies? | 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 |
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