With the water that is past." Sarah Doudney (1841-1926) was a contemporary English poet when the Missoula Weekly Gazette published her autumn poem, “The Water Mill,” in 1890. Then, as today, the ...
The most famous of poems about the fall is probably still Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 73”—the poem with the line “Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.” It appeared last week as The New York ...