Autumn: A Dirge Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Autumn: A Dirge

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The warm sun is falling, the bleak wind is wailing,
The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying,
And the Year
On the earth is her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead,
Is lying.
Come, Months, come away,
From November to May,
In your saddest array;
Follow the bier
Of the dead cold Year,
And like dim shadows watch by her sepulchre.

The chill rain is falling, the nipped worm is crawling,
The rivers are swelling, the thunder is knelling
For the Year;
The blithe swallows are flown, and the lizards each gone
To his dwelling.
Come, Months, come away;
Put on white, black and gray;
Let your light sisters play--
Ye, follow the bier
Of the dead cold Year,
And make her grave green with tear on tear.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Indira Renganathan 09 November 2016

speechless....very apt poem for last year's chennai flood though this was written long ago...highly descriptive.. Salute you sir- -10+++++

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Matthew Montelione 16 March 2005

This is a beautiful poem. There isn't one poem by Shelley that isn't oozing with beauty and imagination. I love this.

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