CORAL-COLOURED yew-berries Strew the garden ways, Hollyhocks and sunflowers Make a dazzling blaze In these latter days. Marigolds by cottage doors Flaunt their golden pride, Crimson-punctured bramble leaves Dapple far and wide The green mountain-side. Far away, on hilly slopes Where fleet rivulets run, Miles on miles of tangled fern, Burnished by the sun, Glow a copper dun. For the year that's on the wane, Gathering all its fire, Flares up through the kindling world As, ere they expire, Flames leap high and higher. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EMMELINE GRANGERFORD'S 'ODE TO STEPHEN DOLWING BOTS, DEC'D' by SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS THE ROMAN ROAD by THOMAS HARDY O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! by WALT WHITMAN PRAYER FOR A DREAM by JOHN C. ADLER THE HAYMAKER'S SONG by ALFRED AUSTIN RECOLLECTIONS by BERNARD BARTON |