With what a Glory Comes and Goes the Year
The speaker celebrates spring buds and autumn’s golden fruit, colored woods, birdsong, and busy threshing floor. Someone whose duties are well performed and days well spent can hear nature’s teachings and approach death without tears.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Genre: Nature Poetry, Meditative Poetry · 447 words
First lines
With what a glory comes and goes the year! / The buds of spring, those beautiful harbingers / Of sunny skies and cloudless times, enjoy / Life's newness, and earth's garniture spread out; / And when the silver habit of the clouds / Comes down upon the autumn sun, and with / A sober gladness the old year takes up / His bright inheritance of golden fruits, / A pomp and pageant fill the splendid scene.
Genres
- Nature Poetry — The verse describes autumn foliage, feeding birds, wind, clouds, and ripening fruit.
- Meditative Poetry — The closing passage connects attentive observation of nature with duties well performed and acceptance of death.
Tags
autumn · harvest · seasonal change · birds · trees · duty · mortality
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Nature Poetry, Meditative Poetry
- Length: 447 words
- Structure: 1 section, 3 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Standard (8th-9th Grade)
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