Christopher Morley

Here you will find the Poem Burning Leaves in Spring of poet Christopher Morley

Burning Leaves in Spring

WHEN withered leaves are lost in flame 
Their eddying gosts, a thin blue haze, 
Blow through the thickets whence they came 
On amberlucent autumn days.

The cool green woodland heart receives 
Their dim, dissolving, phantom breath; 
In young hereditaty leaves 
They see their happy life-in-death.

My minutes perish as they glow- 
Time burns my crazy bonfire through; 
But ghosts of blackened hours still blow, 
Eternal Beauty, back to you!