Laurie Lee Selected Poems by Laurie Lee

Author:Laurie Lee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Laurie, Lee, Folio, Firstborn, Centenary, Cider, Rosie, Moment, war, Spanish, civil, Slad
ISBN: 9781910065266
Publisher: Andrews UK
Published: 2014-04-23T04:00:00+00:00

Field of Autumn

Slow moves the acid breath of noon

over the copper-coated hill,

slow from the wild crab’s bearded breast

the palsied apples fall.

Like coloured smoke the day hangs fire,

taking the village without sound;

the vulture-headed sun lies low

chained to the violet ground.

The horse upon the rocky height

rolls all the valley in his eye,

but dares not raise his foot or move

his shoulder from the fly.

The sheep, snail-backed against the wall.

lifts her blind face but does not know

the cry her blackened tongue gives forth

is the first bleat of snow.

Each bird and stone, each roof and well,

feels the gold foot of autumn pass;

each spider binds with glittering snare

the splintered bones of grass.

Slow moves the hour that sucks our life,

slow drops the late wasp from the pear,

the rose tree’s thread of scent draws thin -

and snaps upon the air.

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