Nature

The Broken Tryst

by James Russell Lowell 1819–1891

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!

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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