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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NOVEMBER ELEGY, by E. FLEMING HOTT
First Line: I looked out my window
Last Line: Like autumn leaves, dead, on the walk.
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; November; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The
First Line: I looked out my window
Last Line: Like autumn leaves, dead, on the walk.
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; November; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The
I looked out my window
And saw a leaf come floating down.
It hesitated, faltered, as if loathe to stop.
At last it fell, lifeless and brown,
And lay like a dead hope on the walk.
Aye, a dead hope! Even thus do our dreams fall,
That once were fresh and fair, and beautiful to see.
The raw, cold blasts of life's November
Have withered them, and now they dull and homely lie,
Like autumn leaves, dead, on the walk.
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