John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892). The Poetical Works in Four Volumes. 1892.
Poems of NatureAutumn Thoughts
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And gone the Summer’s pomp and show,
And Autumn, in his leafless bowers,
Is waiting for the Winter’s snow.
“An emblem of myself thou art.”
“Not so,” the Earth did seem to say,
“For Spring shall warm my frozen heart.”
Of warmer sun and softer rain,
And wait to hear the sound of streams
And songs of merry birds again.
For whom the flowers no longer blow,
Who standest blighted and forlorn,
Like Autumn waiting for the snow;
Thy Winter shall no more depart;
No Spring revive thy wasted flowers,
Nor Summer warm thy frozen heart.