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Heyy all!!! I think that I'm starting to get the hang of learning to read English!!! I learned to read another peom!!! This one's by Thomas Hood. I hope you like it!!

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
stand shadowless like silence, listening
to silence, for no lonely bird would sing
into his hollow ear from woods forlorn,
nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn;-
shaking his languid locks all dewy bright
with tangled gossamer that fell by night,
pearling his coronet of golden corn.
Where are the songs of summer?-With the sun,
oping the dusky eyelids of the south,
till shade and silence waken up as one,
and morning sings with a warm ordorous mouth.
Where are the merry birds?- Away, away
on panting wings through the inclement skies,
lest owls should prey,
undazzled at noonday,
and tear with horny beak their lustrous eyes.
Where are the blooms of summer?- In the west,
blushing their last to the last sunny hours,
when the mild eve by sudden night is prest
like tearful proserpine, snatched from her flowers
to a most gloomy brest.
Where is the pride of summer?- The green prime,-
The many, many leaves all twinkling?- Three
on the mossed elm; three on the naked lime
trembling,- and one upon the old oak tree!
Where is the dyrads immortality?-
Gone into mournful cypress and dark yew,
or wearing the long gloomy winter through
in the smooth hollys green eternity.
The squirrel gloats on his accomplished hoard,
the ants have brimmed their garners with ripe grain,
and honey bees have stored
the sweets of summer in their luscious cells;
the swallows all have winged across the main;
but here the autumn melancholy dwells,
and sighs her tearful spells
amongst the sunless shadows of the plain.
Alone, alone,
upon a mossy stone,
she sits and reckons up the dead and gone
with the last leaves for a love-rosary,
whilst all the withered world looks drearily,
like a dim picture of the drowned past
in the hushed minds mysterious far away,
doubtful that ghostly thing will steal the last
into that distance, gray upon the gray.
O go and sit with her, and be overshaded
under the languid downfall of her hair:
she wears a coronal of flowers faded
upon her forehead, and a face of care;-
there is enough of withered everywhere
to make her bower,- and enough of gloom;
there is enough of sadness to invite,
if only for the rose that died, whose doom
is beautys,- she that with the living bloom
of consious cheeks most beautifies the light:
there is enough of sorrowing, and quite
enough of bitter fruits the earth doth bear,-
enough of chilly droppings for her bowl;
enough of fear and shodowy despair,
to frame her cloudy prison for the soul!


I hope you liked it! This isn't as easy as it looks, though. But I'm getting it! Much luvs!! xoxoxo heart