Friday, September 20, 2019

AUTUMN WITHIN - by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow





AUTUMN WITHIN


by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


It's autumn; not without
But within me is the cold.
Youth and spring are all about;
It is I that have grown old.


Birds are darting through the air,
Singing, building without rest;
Life is stirring everywhere,
Save within my lonely breast.


There is silence: the dead leaves
Fall and rustle and are still;
Beats no flail upon the sheaves,
Comes don't murmur from the mill.