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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LEAF, by GIACOMO LEOPARDI Poet's Biography First Line: Torn from your parent bough Last Line: And thither the laurel-leaf.' Subject(s): Leaves | |||
'TORN from your parent bough, Poor leaf all withered now, Where go you?' 'I cannot tell. Storm-stricken is the oak-tree Where I grew, whence I fell. Changeful continually, The zephyr and hurricane Since that day bid me flee From deepest woods to the lea, From highest hills to the plain. Where the wind carries me I go without fear or grief: I go whither each one goes,-- Thither the leaf of the rose And thither the laurel-leaf.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A LEAF FALLS by MARION LOUISE BLISS THE SHAPE OF LEAVES by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS TWO PICTURES OF A LEAF by MARVIN BELL SO IT'S TODAY by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR CONTRA MORTEM: THE LEAVES by HAYDEN CARRUTH I COULD TAKE by HAYDEN CARRUTH |
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