Working as an apprentice at a printing company, William Stanley Braithwaite learned typesetting. During this work, he set poems by John Keats, William Wordsworth and Shelley. Reading the works by these poets he was inspired to be a poet himself. His earliest poems were published in the Boston publications Journal and Transcript. His first poetry collection was Lyrics of Life and Love in 1904.
He had a further career as literary critic and editor.
The House of Falling Leaves is a poem by Braithwaite, published in a collection in 1908. In the poem he explores the development of African-American writing in the U.S.
Off our New England coast the sea to-night
Is moaning the full sorrow of its heart:
There is no will to comfort it apart
Since moon and stars are hidden from its sight.
And out beyond the furthest harbor-light
There runs a tide that marks not any chart
Wherewith man knows the ending and the start
Of that long voyage in the infinite.
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