Autumn
By: monacorona • Essay • 328 Words • May 6, 2011 • 1,492 Views
Autumn
October has arrived. The grove is shaking
The last reluctant leaves from naked boughs.
A breath of autumn cold-the road is freezing;
The millpond, glazed with ice, in a drowse,
Though the brook babbles; with his pack my neighbor
Makes for the barking, and his horse's feet
Will trample cruelly the winter wheat.
This is my time! What is the spring to me?
Thaw is a bore: mud running thick and stinking;
Spring makes me ill: my mind is never free
From dizzy dreams, my blood's in constant ferment.
Give me instead winters austerity,
The snows under the moon and what is gayer
Than to glide lightly in a sleigh with her
Whose fingers are like fire beneath the fur?
If I had super powers, saving the world comes to mind. If I had super powers, I would to choose to be able to talk in every language and to be able to resolve every problem in the world. I would try to