V.—Early Autumn
Edward
Dowden
Dowden, Edward
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University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
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One of six poems, signed Professor Dowden,
with the general title Garden Poems (366-8). (AC)
The Dark Blue
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If as I sit here now in the warm sun,
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V.—Early Autumn
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If as I sit here now in the warm sun,
Death came to me, and kiss’d my mouth and brow,
And eyelids, which the warm light hovers through,
I should not count it strange. Being half won
By hours that with a tender sadness run ;
Who would not softly lean to lips which woo
In the earth’s grave speech ? Nor could it aught undo
Of Nature’s calm observances begun,
Still to be here the idle Autumn day.
Its leaves would circle down, and lie unstirr’d
Where’er they fell ; the tired wind hither call
Her gentle fellows ; shining beetles play
Up their green courts ; and only yon shy bird
A little bolder grow ere evenfall.