Time & Brevity
Spring and Autumn
From Songs of Peace (1917)
Time & BrevityNature
Green ripples singing down the corn,
With blossoms dumb the path I tread,
And in the music of the morn
One with wild roses on her head.
Now the green ripples turn to gold
And all the paths are loud with rain,
I with desire am growing old
And full of winter pain.
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Codex Note
Two quatrains: in Spring green ripples run down the corn and one comes with wild roses on her head; in Autumn the speaker is 'growing old and full of winter pain'.
Cite this poem
MLA
Ledwidge, Francis. “Spring and Autumn.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ledwidge/32/.
Chicago
Ledwidge, Francis. “Spring and Autumn.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ledwidge/32/.
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