Winter Coming

Winter Coming written by Walter de la Mare

Poems (1906)

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O, thou art like an autumn to my days,
Shining in still, sweet light on lonelier hours
Of yellowing leaves, and well-nigh faded flowers;
In thy dear sight the birds renew their lays,
But with how faint a cheer! how meek their praise
Remembering April gone! — his crystal showers,
His heav'n-surmounting, wind-engirdled towers,
And all the graveness of his childlike ways.
The hours press closer on to winter now;
In misty solitudes brief suns arise;
And all the wonder now hath left my eyes,
And all my heart sinks to remember how
Once, once we loved, we who are grown so wise —
Youth vanished, winter coming — I and thou!

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