Sunday, October 18, 2015

Fallen Leaves (October 18)

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"I Was The Greenest Leaf Of Spring"

3 comments:

TheOFloinn said...

Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie

Michael Swanwick said...

This moves me greatly.

TheOFloinn said...

The complete poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173665
I was assigned to write a term paper on Hopkins when I was in high school, and "Spring and Fall" has stuck with me ever since.