W H Auden

NOW THE LEAVES ARE FALLING FAST

WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN (1907-1973) Who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for his collection The Age of Anxiety, was a versatile and intellectually vigorous poet, verse dramatist, critic,

NOW THE LEAVES ARE FALLING FAST 

Now the leaves falling fast,

Nurse's flowers will not last;

Nurses to the graves are gone,

And the prams go rolling on.

Whispering neighbors, left and right, 

Pluck us from the real delight: 

And the active hands must freeze

Lonely on the separates knee.