The same leaves over and over again! They fall from giving shade above To make one texture of faded brown And fit the earth like a leather glove. Before the leaves can mount again To fill the trees with another shade, They must go down past things coming up. They must go down into the dark decayed. They @3must@1 be pierced by flowers and put Beneath the feet of dancing flowers. However it is in some other world I know that this is the way in ours. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LIBERTY FOR ALL by WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON KATHLEEN O'MORE by GEORGE NUGENT REYNOLDS SONNET: 73 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TO ANACREON by ANTIPATER OF SIDON HERE STOOD A HOUSE by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR ON SEEING A YOUTH AFFECTIONATELY WELCOMED BY A SISTER by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE TO SIR ASTON COCKAYNE, ON HIS TRAGEDY OF OVID by CHARLES COTTON |