Death & Dying

If It Might Be

by Edward Dowden 1843–1913

From Poems (1914)

Death & Dying

If it might be, I would not have my leaves
Drop in autumnal stillness one by one,
Like these pale fluttering waifs that heap sad sheaves
Through mere inertia trembling, tottering down.

Better one roaring day, one wrestling night,
The dark musician’s fiercer harmony,
And then abandoned bareness, or the light
Of strange discovered skies, if it might be.

MLA

Dowden, Edward. “If It Might Be.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dowden/135/.

Chicago

Dowden, Edward. “If It Might Be.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dowden/135/.

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