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I Am Like a Leaf

1875 –

1947

The silence is broken: into the nature
My soul sails out,
Carrying the song of life on his brow,
To meet the flowers and birds.

When my heart returns in the solitude,
She is very sad,
Looking back on the dead passions
Lying on Love’s ruin.

I am like a leaf
Hanging over hope and despair,
Which trembles and joins
The world’s imagination and ghost.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on December 28, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets.

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The faint shadow of the morning moon?
Nay, the snow falling on the earth.
The mist of blossoming flowers?
Nay, poetry smiling up the sky.

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The spring warmth steals into me, drying up all the tears of my soul,
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