Original manuscript of "Autumn Song" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1848, in the Ashley Library.
Sonnet 99 (first stanza)
The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells If not from my love’s breath? The purple pride Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells, In my love’s veins thou hast too grossly dyed.
Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf How the heart feels a languid grief Laid on it for a covering, And how sleep seems a goodly thing In Autumn at the fall of the leaf?
And how the swift beat of the brain Falters because it is in vain, In Autumn at the fall of the leaf Knowest thou not? and how the chief Of joys seems—not to suffer pain?
Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf How the soul feels like a dried sheaf Bound up at length for harvesting, And how death seems a comely thing In Autumn at the fall of the leaf?
Half of my youth I watched the soldiers And saw mechanic clerk and cook Subsumed beneath a uniform. Gray black and khaki was their look Whose tool and instrument was death.
I watched them wheel on white parade grounds. How could the flesh have such control? Ballets with symmetry of the flower Outlined the aspect of a soul Whose pure precision was of death.
^Thom Gunn from "Jack Straw's Castle", Faber & Faber, 1976 ISBN 057111010X
Further reading
Hobsbaum, Philip (1996). Metre, rhythm and verse form. The new critical idiom. Routledge. pp. 186–188. ISBN0-415-08797-X.
External links
The Poet's Garret webpage. List and description of five-line poetry forms
March 08, 2023
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