Love

A Song of Autumn

by Sir James Rennell Rodd 1858–1941

From Home Book of Verse, ed. Burton Egbert Stevenson (1912)

Love

All through the golden weather
Until the autumn fell,
Our lives went by together
So wildly and so well.

But autumn's wind uncloses
The heart of all your flowers;
I think, as with the roses,
So hath it been with ours.

Like some divided river
Your ways and mine will be,
To drift apart for ever,
For ever till the sea.

And yet for one word spoken,
One whisper of regret,
The dream had not been broken,
And love were with us yet.

MLA

Rodd, James Rennell. “A Song of Autumn.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rodd/7/.

Chicago

Rodd, James Rennell. “A Song of Autumn.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rodd/7/.

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