Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AN AUTUMN PICTURE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER


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AN AUTUMN PICTURE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two lovers sit in a shadowy park
Last Line: Amid the sodden, rotten leaves.
Subject(s): London; Love


Two lovers sit in a shadowy park,
Amid a litter of fallen leaves.
The air is still and cool and dark,
As two lovers sit in a park,
Amid the mouldering autumn leaves.
The city thunders against the dark,
Out there beyond the fallen leaves;
Jarring night-caravans embark:
The night her robe of darkness weaves
Out of many and many and many a spark
Smouldering above the fallen leaves.
Two lovers sit in a shadowy park:
They heed not the city which rages and grieves
They mark not the menacing mocking dark,
Nor the grey vapour over the leaves.
Love laughs triumphantly in the dark
Amid the sodden, rotten leaves.





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