Sorry poetry fans. With everything else going on in my life I about forgot Poetry Wednesday this week. Yesterday was the autumnal equinox so the picture above of the leaves just beginning to turn and the following poem seemed very appropriate.
Autumn Song
Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf
How the heart feels a languid grief
Laid on it for a covering,
And how sleep seems a goodly thing
In Autumn at the fall of the leaf?
And how the swift beat of the brain
Falters because it is in vain,
In Autumn at the fall of the leaf
Knowest thou not? and how the chief
Of joys seems--not to suffer pain?
Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf
How the soul feels like a dried sheaf
Bound up at length for harvesting,
And how death seems a comely thing
In Autumn at the fall of the leaf?
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
More poems from Dante Gabriel Rossetti
My so-Called Life
The Adventures of Dangerous Meredith
Intelliblog
Aussie Lynn Downunder
Catherine Sweetpotatoe
Let me know if you have a poem for today's poetic journey by posting a comment below or otherwise giving me your url.
A beautiful poem, Jacqui, very apt not only for your northern hemisphere Autumn, but also in keeping with my gloomy southern hemisphere Spring:
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Dis you know that this man buried his poetry with his wife?
ReplyDeleteThe poem is appropriate for right now. good one.