Late Autumn Afternoon
Grey, fingered with flickering threads
of light;
Silence broken by restless quavers
of music.
Greyness, music,
A playing thought of slumber.
And on my lips faintly disturbing fingers,
And at my heart love’s hand like a
child’s hand
Stirring me half awake.
Credit
From On a Grey Thread (Will Ransom, 1923) by Elsa Gidlow. This poem is in the public domain.
Date Published
02/01/1923