Poems (Young)/Rose Leaves
ROSE LEAVES.
Through your garden olden
Go the winds of night,
Rose leaves unwitholden
Fall there red and white.
Go the winds of night,
Rose leaves unwitholden
Fall there red and white.
White rose leaves bestrewing
Paths where dreams may go,
Red rose leaves renewing
Loves of long ago.
Paths where dreams may go,
Red rose leaves renewing
Loves of long ago.
Dreams are lightly thronging
O'er the rose-strewn way—
Dreams all pale with longing,
Dreams as glad as day.
O'er the rose-strewn way—
Dreams all pale with longing,
Dreams as glad as day.
And my dream-soul passes
With the shapes of dream,
Softly through the grasses
Where the dew-drops gleam.
With the shapes of dream,
Softly through the grasses
Where the dew-drops gleam.
Softly through the closes
Of your garden old
Where a thousand roses
Day by day unfold.
Of your garden old
Where a thousand roses
Day by day unfold.
Softly through the sweetness
Of your curtained room,
With a dream's completeness,
Star-pale in the gloom.
Of your curtained room,
With a dream's completeness,
Star-pale in the gloom.
Like a dream delaying
Till the sky is red
With the petals swaying
Of the dawn-rose shed.
Till the sky is red
With the petals swaying
Of the dawn-rose shed.
When your dreams are going
Wrapped in mantles fair,
And the dawn-wind blowing
Softly stirs your hair.
Wrapped in mantles fair,
And the dawn-wind blowing
Softly stirs your hair.
On my dream-soul calling
Lightly, too, I pass
Where the rose-leaves falling
Redden all the grass.
Lightly, too, I pass
Where the rose-leaves falling
Redden all the grass.