Nature
The Broken Tryst
From Heartsease and Rue
Nature
Walking alone where we walked together,
When June was breezy and blue,
I watch in the gray autumnal weather
The leaves fall inconstant as you.
If a dead leaf startle behind me,
I think 'tis your garment's hem,
And, oh, where no memory could find me,
Might I whirl away with them!
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MLA
Lowell, James Russell. “The Broken Tryst.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell/289/.
Chicago
Lowell, James Russell. “The Broken Tryst.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell/289/.
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