Richard Aldington. "I have drifted along this river". Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

“I have drifted along this river”

By Richard Aldington


I HAVE drifted along this river
Until I moored my boat
By these crossed trunks.

Here the mist moves
Over fragile leaves and rushes,	5
Colorless waters and brown, fading hills.

You have come from beneath the trees
And move within the mist,
A floating leaf.

O blue flower of the evening,	10
You have touched my face
With your leaves of silver.

Love me, for I must depart.