Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IN AN AUTUMN GARDEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY


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First Line: To-night the air discloses
Last Line: Beneath this haunted moon! Have you forgot?
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Roses


TO-NIGHT the air discloses
Souls of a million roses,
And ghosts of hyacinths that died too soon;
From Pan's safe-hidden altar
Dim wraiths of incense falter
In waving spiral, making sweet the moon!

Aroused from fragrant covers,
The vows of vanished lovers
Take voice in whisperings that rise and pass;
Where the crisped leaves are lying
A tremulous, low sighing
Breathes like a startled spirit o'er the grass.

Ah, Love! in some far garden,
In Arcady or Arden,
We two were lovers! Hush—remember not
The years in which I've missed you—
'Twas yesterday I kissed you
Beneath this haunted moon! Have you forgot?





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