Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE MENACE OF AUTUMN, by WILLIAM SHARP



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THE MENACE OF AUTUMN, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amber and yellow and russet, gold and red
Last Line: And wold and woodland lie, austere and bare.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall


Amber and yellow and russet, gold and red,
The autumnal leaves dream they are summer flowers:
Day after day the windless sunny hours
With feet of flame pass softly overhead:

Day after day over each perishing leaf
The windless hours pass with slow-fading flame:
No song is heard where floods of music came;
Long garner'd on the fields the final sheaf.

One day a wild and ravishing wind will rise,
One day a paralysing frost will come,
And all this glory be taken unaware:
Dark branches then will lean against the skies,
Sear leaves will drift the forest-pathways dumb,
And wold and woodland lie, austere and bare.





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