J. C. Squire, ed. A Book of Women’s Verse. 1921.
By Frances Cornford (18861960)Autumn Evening
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And I upon the old red sofa lying,
The great brown shadows leaping up the wall,
The sparrows twittering; and that is all.
Where fairies scamper on the windy sands,
Or where the autumn rain comes drumming down
On huddled roofs in an enchanted town.
It is too happy and too warm at home:
With just the shadows leaping up the wall,
The sparrows twittering; and that is all.