Clouds of the Autumn Night

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h3><span class="t2"><SPAN name="poem_42" id="poem_42"></SPAN><i>Clouds of the</i><br/> </span> <span class="t2"><i>Autumn Night</i></span> </h3> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Clouds of the autumn night,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Under the hunter's moon,&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Ghostly and windy white,&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">Whither, like leaves wild strewn,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Take ye your stormy flight?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Out of the west, where dusk,<br/></span> <span class="i2">From her rich windowsill,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Leaned with a wand of tusk,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Witch-like, and wood and hill<br/></span> <span class="i0">Phantomed with mist and musk.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Into the east, where morn<br/></span> <span class="i2">Sleeps in a shadowy close,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Shut with a gate of horn,<br/></span> <span class="i2">'Round which the dreams she knows<br/></span> <span class="i0">Flutter with rose and thorn.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Blow from the west, oh, blow,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Clouds that the tempest steers!<br/></span> <span class="i0">And with your rain and snow<br/></span> <span class="i2">Bear of my heart the tears,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And of my soul the woe.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Into the east then pass,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Clouds that the night winds sweep!<br/></span> <span class="i0">And on her grave's sear grass,<br/></span> <span class="i2">There where she lies asleep.<br/></span> <span class="i0">There let them fall, alas!<br/></span></div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />