Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AUTUMN EVENING, by FORD MADOX FORD Poet's Biography First Line: The cold light dies, the candles glow Last Line: But in the shadows, lo! Your eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Autumn; Night; Seasons; Fall; Bedtime | ||||||||
THE cold light dies, the candles glow, The wind whirls down the bare allée Outside my gleaming window-panes The phantom populations go, Blown, amid leaves, above, below. Yet these are solid German folk Outside, beneath the thinning planes And the reflections that awoke At candle time upon my panes Are misty, unsubstantial gleams. Only outside, obscurity, The waning light, the cold blue beams And rafts of shadow trick the eye; So that the frozen passers-by Look ghostsand only real seems My candle lighted, lonely place, The gleaming windows and your face Looking in likeness from the wall Where the fantastic shadows fall. ... Now the ghosts pass, the cold wind cries, The leaves sift downwards, the world dies, But in the shadows, lo! your eyes. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BREATH OF NIGHT by RANDALL JARRELL HOODED NIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP by ROBINSON JEFFERS WORKING OUTSIDE AT NIGHT by DENIS JOHNSON POEM TO TAKE BACK THE NIGHT by JUNE JORDAN COOL DARK ODE by DONALD JUSTICE POEM TO BE READ AT 3 A.M by DONALD JUSTICE ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT by BOB KAUFMAN |
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