See yonder, where a gem of night Falls helpless from its heavenly height! It is the brilliant star of Love That thus forsakes the realms above. And one by one the wind bereaves The apple-tree of silvery leaves; The breezes, in their reckless play, Spurn them with dancing feet away. And round and round swims on the pool The tuneful swan so beautiful, And ever singing sweet and slow He sinks into his grave below. It is so dreary and so dread! The leaf is wholly withered, The fallen star has flamed away, The swan has sung his dying lay. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVE'S CAUTION by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE RIDDLERS by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE A TOWN WINDOW by JOHN DRINKWATER CHRISTMAS by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR FRIENDSHIP [OR, THE TRUE FRIEND] by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE SWING by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON EUROPE; THE 72ND AND 73RD YEARS OF THESE STATES by WALT WHITMAN |