<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539767" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Autumn</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou burden of all songs the earth hath sung,<br>Thou retrospect in Time's reverted eyes,<br>Thou metaphor of everything that dies,<br>That dies ill-starred, or dies beloved and young<br>And therefore blest and wise,-<br>O be less beautiful, or be less brief,<br>Thou tragic splendour, strange, and full of fear!<br>In vain her pageant shall the Summer rear?<br>At thy mute signal, leaf by golden leaf,<br>Crumbles the gorgeous year.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, ghostly as remembered mirth, the tale<br>Of Summer's bloom, the legend of the Spring!<br>And thou, too, flutterest an impatient wing,<br>Thou presence yet more fugitive and frail,<br>Thou most unbodied thing,<br>Whose very being is thy going hence,<br>And passage and departure all thy theme;<br>Whose life doth still a splendid dying seem,<br>And thou at height of thy magnificence<br>A figment and a dream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stilled is the virgin rapture that was June,<br>And cold is August's panting heart of fire;<br>And in the storm-dismantled forest-choir<br>For thine own elegy thy winds attune<br>Their wild and wizard lyre:<br>And poignant grows the charm of thy decay,<br>The pathos of thy beauty, and the sting,<br>Thou parable of greatness vanishing!<br>For me, thy woods of gold and skies of grey<br>With speech fantastic ring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For me, to dreams resigned, there come and go,<br>'Twixt mountains draped and hooded night and morn,<br>Elusive notes in wandering wafture borne,<br>From undiscoverable lips that blow<br>An immaterial horn;<br>And spectral seem thy winter-boding trees,<br>Thy ruinous bowers and drifted foliage wet-<br>Past and Future in sad bridal met,<br>O voice of everything that perishes,<br>And soul of all regret!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Watson">William Watson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539767" data-title="Autumn de William Watson" data-description="Thou burden of all songs the earth hath sung, Thou retrospect in Time's reverted eyes, Thou metaphor of everything that dies, That dies ill-starred, or dies beloved and young And therefore blest and wise,- O be less beautiful, or be less brief, Th..."></div> </div> </div>

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