“When the gust hath blown his fill,
Ending on the rustling leaves
With minute drops from off the eaves.”
Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 128
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as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Ghiberti to Gainsborough, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p . 232
1908 - 1920, On Mystery and Creation, Paris 1913

The Sorrow Of Love http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1691/, st. 1
The Rose (1893)

“The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.”
The Fire of Drift-wood, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 955

“And so I leave
On cruel winds
Squalling
And gusting me
Like a dead leaf
Falling.”
Et je m'en vais
Au vent mauvais
Qui m'emporte
Deçà, delà,
Pareil à la
Feuille morte.
"Chanson d'automne", line 13, from Poèmes saturniens (1866); Sorrell p. 27

Introduction: The Custom-House
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Context: The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.