The Falling Of The Leaves

Portrait of William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats 1865–1939

Autumn is over the long leaves that love us, And over the mice in the barley sheaves; Yellow the leaves of the rowan above us, And yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves.

The hour of the waning of love has beset us, And weary and worn are our sad souls now; Let us patt, ere the season of passion forget us, With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow.

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  1. Chris Jowers New Zealand

    I think this poem is beautiful, truly beautiful

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