"The Falling of the Leaves" by W. B. Yeats

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend September 2, 2017   The Falling of the Leaves   W. B. Yeats

Autumn is over the long leaves that love us, And over the mice in the barley sheaves; Yellow the leaves of the rowan above us, And yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves.   The hour of the waning of love has beset us, And weary and worn are our sad souls now; Let us part, ere the season of passion forget us, With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow.            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   "The Falling of the Leaves" was originally published as "Falling of the Leaves" in The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1889) and later appeared in Crossways (Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1889) and Poems (T. Fisher Unwin, 1895).   W. B. Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1865. His collections of poetry include The Poetical Works of William B. Yeats (Macmillan, 1906) and The Wild Swans at Coole (Cuala Press, 1917). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 and died in 1939. Poetry by Yeats   The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1994) "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night" by Walt Whitman "Home-Coming" by Léonie Adams "Dead Leaves" by Georgia Douglas Johnson Help Support Poem-a-Day   If you value Poem-a-Day, please consider a monthly donation or one-time gift to help make it possible. Poem-a-Day is the only digital series publishing new, previously unpublished work by today's poets each weekday morning. The free series, which also features a curated selection of classic poems on weekends, reaches 450,000+ readers daily. Thank you! Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038