Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WELCOME TO OCTOBER, by JANET HAMILTON Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, october, let my simple song Last Line: To the mild glories of the loving skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Nature; October | ||||||||
WELCOME, October, let my simple song Soft echoing, steal thy yellow groves along, Where Nature, conscious of her faded charms, Dejected sinks into thy languid arms, And mournful throws her tarnished robes aside The faded relics of her summer pride. Yet thou hast charms for me; even beauteous Spring, Crown'd with dew'd flowerets, left untouched the string That vibrates softly solemn through my soul, Whose every feeling owns thy calm control. The Summer brook, alive with minnowy fry, And children's plashing feet, with floral dye Of white, pink, purple, blueall beauteous marg'd, Now brown and chill, the deepening current charg'd With whirling eddying leaves, flows swifter on, And mourns her naked banks with hoarser tone. And ye, whose waning years tell life is brief, When "fallen into the sere and yellow leaf," Whose life's spring-flowers are withered all and dead, Strewn on the winds, or crushed beneath the tread Of careless feet, yet trampled, yield a balm Sweet to the soul, may ye, serenely calm, Smile o'er earth's fallen hopes, and raise your eyes To the mild glories of the loving skies. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FACING INTO IT; FOR LARRY LEVIS by ELEANOR WILNER A VAGABOND SONG by BLISS CARMAN THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: OCTOBER by EDMUND SPENSER LATE AUTUMN by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM OCTOBER by MARIE DAVIES WARREN BECKNER OCTOER WOODS by EMMA INGOLD BOST NORTH WIND IN OCTOBER by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES A BALLAD FOUNDED ON A REAL INCIDENT WHICH OCCURED IN HIGH LIFE by JANET HAMILTON |
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