Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AUTUMN TUNE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY


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First Line: Sweeter than spring, sweeter than spring
Last Line: Where death is a-dream on azure wings.
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Dreams; Fear; Life; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Nightmares


Sweeter than spring, sweeter than spring,
These brown and blue and lingering
Soft days that wing
Like filmy dreams across the world,
One by one unfurled, unfurled,
Where the ripe fields slumber and glitter and swing.

Sadder than song, sadder than song,
The choral drowse with madness strong
That all day long
The locusts lift to their god the sun,
For joy of the life that is almost done --
Raptured and shrill and regretless throng.

Wilder than wings, wilder than wings,
The flight of the golden leaves when springs
The fear that flings
Them swirling and shining up from the bare
Dark branches that reach to the calm of the air
Where death is a-dream on azure wings.





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