Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Here you will find the Poem Autumn Song of poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Autumn Song

Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf
 How the heart feels a languid grief
 Laid on it for a covering,
 And how sleep seems a goodly thing
 In Autumn at the fall of the leaf?

 And how the swift beat of the brain
 Falters because it is in vain,
 In Autumn at the fall of the leaf
 Knowest thou not? and how the chief
 Of joys seems--not to suffer pain?

 Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf
 How the soul feels like a dried sheaf
 Bound up at length for harvesting,
 And how death seems a comely thing
 In Autumn at the fall of the leaf?