This poem describes the speaker's feelings of loneliness and longing for a past lover as autumn leaves start to fall. The falling leaves outside the window make the speaker reminisce about summer kisses and holding the person's hands. Now that the person is gone, the days feel long as winter approaches and the speaker misses their darling the most, especially when leaves begin dropping each fall.

2. The falling leaves
Drift by my window
The falling leaves
Of red and gold

3. I see your lips
The summer kisses
The sunburned hands
I used to hold

4. Since you went away
The days grow long
And soon I'll hear
Old winter's song
But I miss you most of all
My darling
When autumn leaves
Start to fall

5.  Since you went away
The days grow long
And soon I'll hear
Old winter's song
But I miss you most of all
My darling
When autumn leaves
Start to fall