Saturday, September 28, 2019

Autumn Rain / Pearl Andelson Sherry

from From a Bay-window

Autumn Rain

My world is a pane of glass. These only
Of the shadowy without are mine:
They that pass;
The gray birds fluttering by;
The cloud that sometimes sails
Over the chimney-bitten sky,
When all else fails.

To eyes hollow
With the gray distress
The passing swallow
Is all but a caress.

~~
Pearl Andelson Sherry (1899-1966)
from Poetry, December 1921

[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]

Pearl Andelson Sherry biography

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