Franconia, October Dear Stark Young: Winter has beaten Summer in fight And shaken the Summer state. He has come to her capital city of Trees To find but an open gate, None to resist him; Summer herself Gone from her windy towers, First having hurried away her birds And hidden away her flowers. He has set her desert citadel In one autumnal blaze, Whereover the crows like something charred Rise and fall in the haze. So has he served her Summer pride And punished a royal fault. And he has appointed a day to sow Her ruined city with salt. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ALONG SHORE by HERBERT BASHFORD MONT DE CASSEL by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE MOCKING-BIRD by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD NATURE'S REMORSES; ROME, 1861 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I HAVE COME REMEMBERING by LORENE BYRNES BURNS |