Sunday, October 11, 2009

Poetic Mondays-Robert Frost

Paying homage to fall today. I really think Frost was just really mourning the loss of wine in this poem though.

October
by Robert Frost

O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall,
Should waste them all.
The crows above the forest call;
Tomorrow they may form and go.
O hushed October morning mild,
Begin the hours of this day slow.
Make the day seem to us less brief.
Hearts not averse to being beguiled,
Beguile us in the way you know.
Release one leaf at break of day;
At noon release another leaf;
One from our trees, one far away.
Retard the sun with gentle mist;
enchant the land with amethyst.
Slow, slow!
For the grapes' sake if they were all,
Whose leaves already are burnt with frost,
Whose clustered fruit must else be lost-
For grapes' sake along the wall.

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